Cellulose Ether Uses

Cellulose ether compounds are an important component of many building and construction materials. KimaCell® regulates water retention and consistency while increasing homogeneity and open time in all types of mortar.

Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose(HPMC) for ceramics is a non-ionic cellulose ether made from natural polymer material cellulose through a series of chemical processing. HPMC is an odorless, tasteless and nontoxic white powder that swells into a clear or slightly cloudy colloidal solution in cold water.

KimaCell® MC and HPMC are employed in a wide range of food ingredient applications due to their unique features of methylcellulose and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose.

HEC has the properties of rheology modification in fluids for drilling, thickening, suspension, adhesion, emulsification, stable film formation, dispersion, water retention, and colloidal protection in the oil and gas industry.

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Water-based paints are coatings that use water as a solvent or dispersion medium. Water-based paints can be divided into exterior paints, Interior paints, Powder paints etc.

Cellulose Ether, as a cosmetic additive, has a wide range of applications in personal and home care, acting as film formers, suspension aids, lubricants, lather enhancers/stabilizers, emulsion stabilizers, gelling agents, and dispersants.

Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose (HPMC) is widely used in pharmaceutical technology as a high molecular hydrophilic cellulose derivative pharmaceutical excipient. Not only can be used as tablet, granule, pill and binder and disintegrant, coating material of film coating, but also can be used as thickener and suspending agent of colloid preparation, retarder of slow and controlled release preparation And pore formers, carriers for solid dispersions, and raw materials for vegetable HPMC capsules.

Cellulose ether is one of the main dispersants in the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) industry. During the suspension polymerization of vinyl chloride, it can reduce the interfacial tension between VCM and water, and help vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) to be uniformly and stably dispersed in the aqueous medium; prevent VCM droplets from merging in the initial stage of the polymerization process; during the polymerization process In the middle and late stages, the agglomeration between polymer particles is prevented. In the suspension polymerization system, it plays the dual role of dispersion and protection and stability.