- Innovations in research and technology continue to push the boundaries of what these additives can achieve. Newer generations of additives are being developed to address specific challenges, such as self-healing concrete that can repair cracks autonomously or eco-friendly options that minimize environmental impact.
- In the manufacturing industry, latex bonding agents are used to bond a variety of materials, including metals, plastics, and composites. For example, they can be used to attach components to automotive bodies, join plastic parts, or reinforce composite structures.
- In the food industry, HPMC serves as a food additive, improving texture, viscosity, and shelf life of various products
Cellulose is the most frequent polysaccharide in nature consisting of (some hundreds up to ten thousands) β-glycosidic linked glucose molecules. It is the main constituent of plant cell walls and vegetable fibre. It occurs mostly associated with hemicelluloses and lignin. It is therefore a common component of plant-based feed for all food producing and companion animals. However, these animals are not capable to digest cellulose enzymatically due to the lack of cellulases. The monomer element of cellulose, glucose, will not be released from cellulose. But gastrointestinal microbes can split cellulose, the main degradation products are short-chain fatty acids. In a simplified view, monogastric animals cannot digest cellulose, small amounts are microbially degraded in the large intestine. Minor amounts of cellulose may be absorbed as such by paracellular transport (passing through the intercellular space) or by transcytosis (transcellular transport of macromolecules captured in vesicles). On the other side, animals with large fermentation chambers in the intestine, such as ruminants, horses and rabbits, utilise large amounts of cellulose as energy source. In summary, cellulose is a natural part of feed and plays a physiological role in nutrition of animals (see Section 3.2.1).
HPMC - Everything you need to know
Once upon a time, almost all vitamin capsules were made from bovine gelatin. As vegetarianism and sustainability became more popular, market trends moved away from gelatin based capsules. Today most supplement products in the UK and European market would be made from HPMC. Bovine gelatin tends to only be used in very lost cost products, or products where it would not matter that it is not vegetarian, such as a collagen capsule.
(4) Ink printing: As a thickener, dispersant and stabilizer in the ink industry, it has good solubility in water or organic solvents.
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Filling of the product under clean room class A conditions prevents any product contamination and the applied advanced vacuum filling technology allows for bubble-free products.
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