MELFLOCK® - Alzchem supplies reliable products for a sustainable paper industry
2021 was a successful year for the paper industry, and the forecasts for 2022 are also promising: the demand for various types of packaging products made from renewable raw materials - especially paper bags, food boxes and outer packaging - has increased enormously worldwide. This is mainly based on the upswing in online retailing, as well as in part by the continuing strong trend toward food "to go."
Paper is basically always produced in the same way: Pulp, obtained from wood, waste paper or fast-growing plants, is mixed with water, defibered and spread over fine screens. Among other things, the choice of starting material, density and layer thickness during processing, as well as various types of post-treatment, result in papers with a wide variety of properties.
Dicyandiamide condensates, the MELFLOCK® products from Alzchem, are strongly cationic microflocculation and fixing agents. Their advantage lies in their independence from the ph value. This means that the cationic charge is available even at ph values above 7. Our condensates are used as process chemicals in the paper industry, e.g. as creping aids, for contaminant treatment in AKD sizing (modern and paper-friendly process for currently used synthetic sizing) and for reducing the chemical oxygen demand (COD value).
We ACT - we act in a 100 percent backward-integrated, sustainable production "Made in Germany" and offer reliable and clean products for an environmentally friendly application in the paper industry
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Bettina Behrend
About Alzchem
Alzchem is a globally active specialty chemicals company that is predominantly among the market leaders in its fields of activity. Alzchem benefits in particular from the three very different global developments of climate change, population growth and longer life expectancy. In order to achieve the resulting social goals, Alzchem products can offer attractive solutions with a wide range of different applications.
The company sees interesting growth prospects for itself especially in the areas of human and animal nutrition and agriculture. As a result of population growth, it is necessary to achieve efficient food production. Pharmaceutical raw materials and our creatine products can contribute to healthy aging as life expectancy increases. Alzchem is facing up to the goal of sustainability arising from climate change in the field of renewable energies and across the entire company. The fields of fine chemicals and metallurgy offer just as great a perspective.
The broad product range of Alzchem Group AG includes dietary supplements, precursors for corona tests and pharmaceutical raw materials. These products are our company’s response to global trends and developments. Alzchem is ideally positioned in this regard and sees itself as well equipped for an environmentally oriented future and global developments.
The company employs around 1,630 people at four production sites in Germany and one plant in Sweden, as well as two sales companies in the USA and China. In 2020, Alzchem generated consolidated sales of around EUR 379 million and EBITDA of around EUR 53.8 million.