Maize starch, Shelf Life : 2 YEARS

Listing ID #4353895

Diverse uses of starch make it a very versatile product. Maize or Corn Starch is a typical cereal starch with distinctly low protein and ash contents. Its carbohydrate content of high purity makes it of use in several industries.

Starch occurs in nature in many ways. Maize contains about 66% of starch which can be separated from other ingredients by various processes such as steeping, grinding, purifying and drying. The physico-chemical and functional properties of starch exhibit a wide variation with slight change in the production parameters. One of the important properties is of the viscosity of starch slurry. Normally, starch has near neutral PH. With an increase in the PH, viscosity of starch tends to show an increase, thus making it possible to have diverse uses. This is commonly known as High Viscosity Starch and is used in the textile industry for sizing.

APPLICATIONS:

• By virtue of its Superior uniformity and stability of water solution, the use of starch is preferred to any other material for sizing, finishing and printing. It offers economy alongwith ease in filling the interstices of the weave. This provides the requisite strength and weight .

• A TEXTILE ENGINEER finds it suitable for all types of clothes and yarns as it offers a wide titration of parameters such as viscosity, binding strength and its compatibility with thermoplastic and thermosetting resins for a permanent inish and back filling. Moreover, starch has an added advantage of being washed away easily from the fabric.

• A PHARMACIST uses starch as a tablet binder in excepient and as a disintegrating agent in  the dispersible tablets and also in the sustained release formulations.

• Pharmaceuticals: Dextrains are used as a neutrient source in preparations of certain antibiotics.

• For a Householder the ubiquitous nature of starch does not go unnoticed due to its presence in food products such as ketch-ups, ice-creams, cakes, biscuits, chocolates, wafers and drycell batteries, detergents, etc. Starch also finds itself to use in adhesives  and gums. Ladies love the soft and silky feel of starch in talcum powder. Children enjoy the  blasting sound of starch in the crackers. Starch also finds immense usage in paper industry to enhance bursting & tensile strength, elongation, fold endurance, pick resistance etc. Starch  also improves the printability of paper by inhibiting ink penetration and forming a hard firm  surface.