Carboxymethyl Cellulose Production Cost Reports

Carboxymethyl Cellulose production cost report provides a comprehensive analysis and know-how for setting up a Carboxymethyl Cellulose production plant. The study covers all the requisite aspects that one needs to know for the production of Carboxymethyl Cellulose. This includes manufacturing processes, raw material requirements, utility requirements, infrastructure requirements, machinery and technology requirements, manpower requirements, packaging requirements, transportation requirements, etc.

Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) is an anionic cellulose derivative consisting of the cellulose backbone composed of glucopyranose monomers and their hydroxyl groups bound to carboxymethyl groups. It is from the polymer family and is produced via the etherification of native cellulose by substituting hydroxyl groups with carboxymethyl groups in the cellulose chain.

Carboxymethyl Cellulose is water-soluble, and its solubility depends on the DP and the degree of substitution and the uniformity of the substitution distribution. When dissolved in hot or cold water, it can be made with distinct physical and chemical properties, which can impact the product's behaviour in various applications and for optimising production costs. This is a non-toxic product.

Carboxymethyl Cellulose is mainly used as a viscosity modifier or thickener and emulsifier in food products. Furthermore, it is added in artificial tears as it is among the most common viscous polymers and is also useful for treating aqueous tear-deficient dry eye symptoms along with ocular surface staining. It can also play the role of a stabiliser, suspending agent, film former or thickening agent. In food applications, it is used in baking gluten-free products by adding viscosity to dough and bread with a volume similar to gluten proteins. It is also employed as a thickener in fillings and as an agent in glazes which slows the crystallisation of sugar. In beer, it finds usage in improving texture and stabilising foam.

It also helps bind water in ice cream, pie fillings and jellies, cake icings, and diet foods. Other application of the commodity includes in construction (to compose cement and also acts like a stabiliser and hydrophilic agent), detergents (for soaps and detergents), paper for reducing wax consumption in wax paper, as a suspending agent in pesticides and water-based sprays, in adhesives, in cosmetics for dental impression materials and pastes or gels toothpaste, water-based paints, in oil drilling, textiles, ceramics, in the pharmaceutical industry (for making emulsions, stabiliser for suspensions, sprays and bioadhesive) as well as in medicine for forming gels in heart surgeries, thoracic and cornea.