ASA Emulsifier

PROMPTSIZE 30 is a ready-to-use cationic liquid starch as ASA emulsifier, optimizing cost by enhancing ASA emulsion performance, less ASA hydrolysis and high retention on fibers.

ASA Emulsifier

PROMPTSIZE 30 is a ready-to-use cationic liquid starch for use as an ASA emulsifier, optimizing costs by enhancing ASA emulsion performance, decreasing ASA hydrolysis  with high retention on fibers. It is highly suitable for paper mills using recycled paper and amphoteric starch at wet end.

Bio-mulch film

Compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST® up to 30% with PBAT and PLA can  make bio-mulch film product that can control degradable rate matching to crop of plantation and affordable cost.

Explore Our TAPIOPLAST® Biodegradable Mulch Film for Various Cultivation

TAPIOPLAST® for Lettuce Cultivation

TAPIOPLAST® for Melon Cultivation

TAPIOPLAST® for Strawberry Cultivation

Wet End Solutions

SMS has launched functional starches as an excellent binder for high filler contents in order to reduce total costs and environmental impact, The EXCELBOND® Series enhances internal strength for paper and improves machine run-ability especially high-speed machines for uncoated paper production, maximizing retention and drainage performance as well.

Also, our modified starches the EXCELCAT® Series can be used for all paper grades. It is designed for a wide range of pulp conductivity, effectively performing even with high conductivity systems due to reduced consumption of fresh water. It delivers improved internal strength, fine retention, and drainage, to optimize internal sizing consumption as an ASA/AKD emulsifier.

Spraying Solutions

The better and more economical way to enhance the strength of multi-ply paper emerges here.

Leveraging the advanced technology of modified tapioca starch for spraying, we guarantee superior ply bonding strength and cost reduction for your paper products.

SMS has developed specialty products for spraying applications, the EXCEL SPA Series.

It is an innovative starch used for increasing ply bond with lower dosage compared to native starches resulting in BOD and COD reduction.

Our modified starch, EXCEL PB is produced under GMP standards and used for increasing paper strength properties especially ply bond and burst strength.

Bio-Shopping Bag

Compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST® at 40 – 50% with PBAT and PLA can make bio-shopping bag product that can be completely biodegraded with faster rate and competitive cost.

Oil & Water-Resistant Paper

In terms of replacing single-use plastic, SMS presents a high-performance water-based barrier, PROMPTCOAT Series - specially designed to use for paper and board, offering excellent barrier properties to both water & oil/grease resistance. PROMPTCOAT Series can be easily supplied for typical size press or coating processes.

The paper packaging containing PROMPTCOAT Series excellently helps reduce the plastic waste problems as it can easily be used as recycled fiber in the paper-making process.

Surface Sizing Solutions

The EXCELSIZE Series is modified tapioca starch with a controllable viscosity range, used to improve surface strength and smoothness with good film forming.

The EXCELSIZE C Series predominant function is printability improvement and BOD reduction of broke recycling processes in wet end operations.

Wet End Solutions

Most packaging paper especially container board is made using recycled wastepaper for paper production. Paper recycling rates continue to rise due to economic and environmental initiatives but the quality of fibers from recycled wastepaper is worse than virgin fiber, resulting in loss of paper strength. Consequently, SMS has developed an amphoteric starch, the EXCELPLUS Series, used for dealing with recycled fibers which have higher fine content in order to increase retention, drainage ability, and paper strength properties.

Also, our modified starches the EXCELCAT® Series can be used for all paper grades. It is designed for a wide range of pulp conductivity, effectively performing even with high conductivity systems due to reduced consumption of fresh water. It delivers improved internal strength, fine retention, and drainage, to optimize internal sizing consumption as an ASA/AKD emulsifier.

Bio-Nursery Bag

Compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST® at 30 – 40% with PBAT and PLA can make bio-nursery bag product that can control degradable rate. The bio-nursery bag can be planted without removing plastic bags to protect the root from damage during plantation.

Coating Solutions

A cost-effective solution by replacing synthesis binders with eco-friendly products, the KLIC Series is an additive for total binder reduction in coating formulas resulting in significant binder cost reduction.

It can be added in dry form to the coating color for a convenient use and lower energy consumption.

Our modified starches, the EXCELCOAT® Series is suitable for use as a co-binder in coating formulations to reduce binder cost.

It has a better stability than traditional coating starch, allowing for higher starch solids without affecting the production process and improving the optical quality of papers.

Water retention is also significantly improved resulting in the reduction of additives, especially rheology modifiers.

Surface Sizing Solutions

The EXCELSIZE Series is modified tapioca starch with a controllable viscosity range, used to improve surface strength and smoothness with good film forming.

The EXCELSIZE C Series predominant function is printability improvement and BOD reduction of broke recycling processes in wet end operations.

Bio-Garbage Bag

Compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST® at 40 – 50% with PBAT and PLA can make bio-garbage bag product that can be completely biodegraded with faster rate and competitive cost.

Coating Solutions

A cost-effective solution by replacing synthesis binders with eco-friendly products, the KLIC Series is an additive for total binder reduction in coating formulas resulting in significant binder cost reduction. It can be added in dry form to the coating color for convenient use and lower energy consumption.

The EXCELCOAT® Series is suitable for use as a co-binder in coating formulations to reduce binder cost. It has better stability than traditional coating starch, allowing for higher starch solids without affecting the production process and improving the optical quality of papers.

Water retention is also significantly improved resulting in the reduction of additives, especially rheology modifiers

Modified Starch for Wet End Solutions

EXCELCAT® Series is common products used for all paper grades, it is designed for a wide range of conductivity of a pulp, effectively performs even with high conductivity system due to reduced consumption of fresh water from environmental issue, to improve internal strength, fine retention, and drainage, to optimize internal sizing consumption as an ASA/AKD emulsifier.

Modified Starch for Coreboard-High Ply Bond

High ply bond grade core board is commonly used in the paper and board industries as well as in textile and yarn applications. SMS has developed the specialty products for spraying applications, EXCEL SPA VR.

It is an innovative starch used to increase ply bond with a lower dosage compared to native starches resulting in BOD and COD reduction. 

Modified Starch for Dye Sublimation Paper

Sublimation paper is a specialty paper used for the sublimation transfer printing process. It has a coating on the surface which effectively means the ink should be retained on the paper surface or the coated layer.

The KLIC S Series is a pregelatinized starch which is an easy-to-use product to replace CMC used as binder in coating formulations, leading to lower coating color costs.

Modified Starch for Wet End Solutions

The use of wet end starch decreases softness property which is the key property of tissue paper, but softness can be improved by reducing the refining of tissue furnished.

Wet end starch can reduce the refining because it helps to improve paper strength through the hydrogen bonding during the sheet dried. In addition, drainage and fines retention are also improved from the flocculation mechanism.

EZCAT® Series is a pregelatinized starch which is easy-to-use product in wet end process of tissue paper manufacturing. It enhances internal bonding resulting in less amount of paper dust formed and gives possibilities to reduce furnish costs by replacing chemicals and high quality of fiber with other grade of fiber.

Carrier Starch

SMS offers modified starches, SMS C200, SMS C300 and SMS GREEN416, as carrier starches for corrugated board industry. These modified starches provide the beneficial functions;

Good water retention

Adhesive containing carrier starch has good water retention. Most of the water is retained in the adhesive rather than absorbed by the corrugating medium leading to get fully gelatinization.

Stable viscosity

The unique modification of carrier starch helps shear resistance and provide more consistent viscosity during machine operation.

Faster development of green bond

High performance carrier starch has been designed to speed up the development of green bond while improving corrugated board quality.

Increase machine efficiency

With the using carrier starch, the production of corrugated board is  able to run at higher machine speed with good runnability. There is less sheet board delamination and wastes paper reduction.

Additive

SMS C500 is specially formulated to use as an additive in corrugated board production. It can be used both for “carrier” and “Non-carrier” system. It empowers an excellent performance on rapid migration of liquid starch adhesive to implement bonding of recycled paper grades, faster setting time which improve machine runnability and productivity.

Gummed Paper Tape

Getting your gummed paper tape with more stable glue viscosity with BIOGUM 15, it helps provide fast and aggressive tack in tape gluing process. Besides, the starch solution also generates a rapid setting, permanent bounding, and excellent adhesion. 

With BIOGUM 25, it enables you to have a better glue viscosity and can be prepared at high solids content.

Our solution offers faster and aggressive tack,  rapid setting time, fast-drying, permanent bonding, and also compromises good machine runnability. 

Paper Adhesive

SMS® GSA, SMS PB8, SMS PB11

Our starches have various viscosity range to match with gypsum board operation temperature that provide good migration of starch molecules resulting to good adhesion between gypsum core and paper liner.

Core Strength Improver

With the high performance of SMS PB916 that enhances gypsum crystal strength, it then increases flexural strength and nail pull resistance for lightweight gypsum board.

Plant pot

The compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST®TPS at 30 – 50% with PBAT and PLA can make plant pot product that can be completely biodegraded with faster rate and competitive cost. The plant pot can be planted without removing plastic parts to protect the root from damage during plantation.

Cutlery

The compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST®TPS at 40 – 50% with PBAT and PLA can make cutlery product that can be completely biodegraded with faster rate at affordable cost.

Single-Use rigid plastic part

TAPIOPLAST®TPS can be compounded with PBAT and PLA to produce rigid plastic part which can be completely biodegraded under microorganisms.

Food tray

Compounded resin containing TAPIOPLAST® with PBAT and PLA can be processed by thermoforming to make food tray that can be completely biodegraded after discarding.

Plastic packaging

TAPIOPLAST® can be compounded with PBAT and PLA to produce plastic packaging which can be completely biodegraded by microorganisms.

Plastering mortar

High end quality of plastering mortar requires smoothness and leveling.

To get these appearance, fresh mortar should have non-sag and thixotropic properties.

Our EXCELCON 100, EXCELCON P360 and EXCELCON A380 are created to act as a rheology modifier to improve workability, easy troweling and anti sagging of plastering mortar product.

Skim coat mortar

Skim coat is considered as the exquisite layer for the special decorated wall.

Good skim coat needs high water holding and thixotropic properties to prevent dusting problem and easy troweling.

SMS introduces EXCELCON 100 and EXCELCON 300, the innovative starch ether as an additive to boost up workability, cost saving, anti-sagging and to solve the stickiness problem for the perfect skim coating.

Tile adhesive mortar

EXCELCON A380, EXCELCON A850, and EXCELCON A880 are designed to prolong the open time as well as increase slip resistance to tile adhesive mortar.

Generally, open time is very important to give more time to attach the tile on the wall.

Since, modern tile is now become bigger and heavier, hence slip resistance is importantly required.

Self-Leveling Concrete

Self-Leveling concrete conducts the flooring works to finish faster since it requires less finishing process.

It makes concrete flow like water at the less water content, so that it enables higher strength of concrete.

EXCELCON C250 is used in combination with superplasticizer to prevent bleeding and keep the components in concrete homogeneously without sedimentation in high flowable concrete.

Natural Rubber Glove

The free flowing modified corn starch, SURGON E provides excellent lubrication function at low coat weight and resist to swell in hot water, so it can be used at less dosage and longer period.

Synthetic Glove

The synthetic glove can be produced from nitrile, vinyl, neoprene, and others.

Each of the materials provide a unique benefit over conventional gloves, but they have difference characteristic.

SURGON E and SURGON W are developed to be able to coat on the synthetic glove under wet or dry process to provide lubrication function and easy donning.

SURGON series

can be applied to other rubber products to prevent stickiness during process or promote lubrication during application.

It is versatilely used in various applications such as condom, finger cap or balloon, etc.

SURGON series has been controlled to be free flowing product which is an excellent properties to provide the lubrication function.

Body powder

EXCELCARE BP series s a natural polymer, gluten-free, non-GMO, which imparts a new experience of aesthetic as it performs excellent oil absorbance, providing silk skin feel.

With its purity and natural origin, EXCELCARE BP series is an alternative product which is effectively incorporated into a liquid or powdered makeup product where the mild sensation of natural product is required.

EXCELCARE BP series

is a natural polymer which imparts a new experience of aesthetic as it performs excellent oil absorbance, providing silk skin feel. With its purity and natural origin.

EXCELCARE BP series is alternative product which is effectively incorporated into liquid or powdered make up product where mild sensation of natural product is required.

EXCELCARE TA40

is a natural non-ionic viscosity modifier which designed to boost up viscosity and improve rheological properties of formulation.

EXCELCARE TA40 is compatible with synthetic viscosity modifier allowing formulators to develop personal care product with various range of viscosity, while promoting soft to rich texture.

Shaving Foam

EXCELCARE SB20 is a functional maltodextrin for use in shaving products. It is applied to help building body, good foam stability, mild and nonirritating and contribute to humectant properties.

EXCELCARE TA40 is a natural non-ionic viscosity modifier which designed to boost up viscosity and improve rheological properties of formulation.

EXCELCARE TA40 is compatible with synthetic viscosity modifier allowing formulators to develop personal care products with various ranges of viscosity.

Soap bar

EXCELCARE SB20 is a functional maltodextrin designed to boost up soap bar lather upon daily use, promote last longer creaminess foam texture for enhancement of user’s shower experience.

EXCELCARE SB20 leaves skin with a silky soft touch after rinse-off. 

Soap bar

EXCELCARE PF30 is a natural-based polymer designed to encapsulate volatile oil that is used in personal care formulation such as fragrance.

EXCELCARE PF30 delicately preserves pleasant aroma from evaporation while slowly releases it out and prolongs olfactory satisfaction of end-users.

Ironing Starch

The clear solution of ironing starch can be produced by using FABRICTEX® 15 and FABRICTEX DP which are modified tapioca starch products, suitable for using in laundry textile application to enhance fabric appearances in term of stiffness and glossiness.

Film Former or Binder

The sizing solution containing modified starches, SIZETEX 5 and SIZETEX series, provide high yarn abrasion resistance due to good adhesion power resulting to good weaving efficiency for cotton and cotton blended yarn.

Moreover, the sizing solution containing SIZETEX A55, SIZETEX E55, or FABRICTEX® 15 will provide viscosity stability at low temperature.

PVA Replacer

PVA is petroleum based material with the highest cost in warp sizing formula.

SIZETEX® PVS300D can be used to replace PVA in sizing 10-30% while SIZETEX PVS 600D can be replaced to PVA at higher 30%, reducing chemical cost and environmentally friendly at high weaving efficiency.

Acrylic Replacer

SIZETEX®KLIC540D is anionic starch for 100% acrylic polymer replacement in sizing for cotton and cotton blended yarn.

It provides good adhesion and absorb moisture in the weaving room to increase the flexibility of the sizing film on the sized yarn resulting to get high weaving efficiency.

Gypsum Plaster

Gypsum plaster is more popularly used in the interior wall plaster since it has insulation properties, fire and impact resistant.

Workability and anti-sagging properties are important to the gypsum plaster to make the high-quality finishing and faster the application rate.

EXCELCON A380 provides these properties to gypsum plaster to enhance fresh mortar properties which are suitable for the plaster.

Gypsum Skim Coat

Gypsum skim coat is a thin layer smooth finished coating made from gypsum. It provides a high-quality surface and can be used to cover the small defect from the wall substrate.

Workability is the most important property to the gypsum skim coat since the applicator needs to apply the sticky gypsum mortar to the wall at a very thin layer.

EXCELCON 300 provides extra smooth properties to the gypsum skim coat. The excellent workability lead to a faster rate of application and easy to apply.

Gypsum Spray Plaster

Machine spray gypsum plaster is wildly used in the new construction site because it can apply the plaster at a very high rate with less waste during transportation.

The gypsum mortar to be used with spray machine need to be easily mixed with water. It also should have an excellent anti-sagging property to prevent rebound and has good workability for easy troweling.

EXCELCON A850 is developed for spray mortars to provide fast thicking, anti-sagging and good workability.

Paper Sack

Get the reformulated starch solution that enables viscosity stability for consistent application. POLYMER LA7711C was developed to boost bonding strength, allowing a high speed of operation and faster final adhesion rate, which reduces production time for the manufacturer. Another product line we have introduced is POLYMER LA7711C (LS) – delivering the same properties but with excellent rheology to prevent splashing during high-speed machine operation.