TISSUE PAPER

Tissue paper is a lightweight paper with a high demand for quality properties. Most tissue makers and end-product consumers require higher bulk density and softness, superior wet and dry strength properties with lower basis weight, brightness, stretch, appearance and comfort.

POLYMER AND ENZYME REFINING AIDS

The use of enzymes as paper additives started proliferating over the years and have been evaluated for their ability to modify pulp and paper characteristics beneficially.

GIG Chemie offers the latest “green biobeating” technology with its unique combinations of selected polymers and enzymes, which improve paper dry strength properties, increased short fiber proportion in the furnish, and reduced applied refining energy, even on lower dosages.

DISPERSING AGENTS

With the recent issues in paper recycling these days where the quality of waste papers are getting poorer, GIG Chemie provides a unique range of selected products for the repulping and dispersing of inferior quality and most challenging waste papers (i.e., paper products containing wet strength resins, adhesives, wax, coating polymers, hot melts, and glues).

GIG Chemie’s dispersing agents react instantly under ideal conditions, thus minimizing pulping time and enhancing the efficiency of the production line. They are very effective under any pulping conditions.

WET AND DRY STRENGTH AGENTS

GIG Chemie delivers a comprehensive range of additives for permanent and temporary wet strength and dry strength that improve the essential characteristics of tissue, paper, and board products.

These highly efficient additives allow our customers to achieve the required wet and dry strength features of their products and enhance their machine runnability.

With the optimized combination of our NEFESIN & TROFESIN product ranges, it provides the following advantages:

  • increases strength properties
  • improves machine efficiency on all kinds of furnishes
  • provides savings on cost and energy
  • remarkably reduces the required dosage
  • improves retention and drainage features
  • reacts positively with other process additives
  • reduces fines, dust accumulation, refining, starch, and CMC components

PITCH ELIMINATION AND STICKIES CONTROL ADDITIVES

Deposits, pitch, and stickies have an adverse effect on product quality and process productivity. Most mills experienced production loss due to contamination. Furthermore, aside from causing loss of productivity, deposits also cause holes and fouling smell on the finished product when left uncontrolled.

GIG Chemie offers innovational technology and adapted chemistry for the most effective pitch and stickies elimination, and control of all the deposits (both organic & inorganic) in the tissue, paper, and board manufacturing processes.

These revolutionized additives completely stop the tackiness, obstruct agglomeration, prevent accruement of residues, and facilitate in discharging the anionic and non-ionic trash from manufacturing processes. It can be applied throughout the pulping process, for fiber & contaminant surface treatment, and to make the residual particles across the papermaking process less reactive.

With the right product combination, along with its minimum dosage in the wet end area and on the machine fabrics, it provides very effective passivation.

Additional benefits of our product lines are the effective elimination of troublesome detrimental substances and a substantial improvement in the efficiency of all processing additives.

 

SYSTEM CONDITIONER ADDITIVES

GIG Chemie offers highly concentrated products for the treatment of most water circuits, which eliminate slime and corrosive deposits, thus protecting the system from their adverse effect.

These biodegradable & environmentally friendly additives are used for the passivation and elimination of both incoming and existing organic deposits in the entire system.

 

SCALE DEPOSIT CONTROL ADDITIVES

Generally, some chemical reactions within the process turned the process water “hard,” and formed inorganic deposits inside the system. By reducing the water hardness and scaling caused by this chemical reaction, it can considerably improve several tissue paper essential properties.

GIG Chemie’s broad range of technological solutions, consisting of application professionals, functional chemistries, and the latest technologies which provide exceptional scale inhibition in variable conditions without interfering with other systems. Our scale deposit control will keep your system free of unwanted inorganic deposits either by the continuous or shock-dosing treatment. One of the outstanding features of our products is that they hinder the precipitation of organic salts or scaling compounds in the white water system.

Our additives are antiscalants with dispersing properties and passivation effects. These provide protection against the inorganic deposits, e.g., corrosion on the internal and external surfaces of machinery parts, including pumps and piping. It offers excellent sequestering and complexing properties and helps to stabilize alkaline earth ions, particularly calcium ions. All these lead to lowering your energy costs.

 

MICROBIOCIDES

Microbiocides inhibit the growth of anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms, whose metabolic products can lead to corrosion and unpleasant odor.

GIG Chemie’s countless years of experience in microbiological control and protection gave them the mastery of providing custom made treatment solutions for the most complex situation and on the system with different temperature ranges.

Our well-tested products are characterized by its rapid and long-term activity against anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms such as bacteria, algae, protozoans, and fungi; they also inhibit the slime formation and microbiologically induced corrosion. They are biodegradable and designed to eliminate the formation of “biofilm,” slime & odor in the paper manufacturing, de-inking plant, and most recycled fiber processes. They provide sustainable & effective microbiological control without any harmful effect in the effluent treatment plant (ETP).

We, in GIG Chemie, offers microbiological water analysis of the complete process under the supervision of our skilled technicians, extend our full cooperation for technical services and training of your staff if requested.

CLEANERS

GIG Chemie offers superior non-flammable, odor-free, and 100% solvent-free water-based products for the cleaning of wires, wet felts, dryer fabrics either through the continuous or batch type cleaning approach.

Our cleaners are more efficient than solvent-based products. The use of our cleaners provides more extended service life, and constant dewatering of machine clothing, thus resulting in energy savings, improved runnability, and fewer breaks.

MACHINE CLOTHING & SYSTEM CONDITIONERS

Machine clothing is a necessity for papermaking machines; it keeps both wires and felts into their original, deposit-free condition during their entire operation period. It also decelerates the process of deposit formation and felt clogging by removing the accumulated undesirable impurities with the right cleaning chemistry.

GIG Chemie’s adapted conditioning chemistry provides the most efficient protective micro coating not only for paper machine clothing but also for manufacturing systems allowing prolonged clothing service lives and reduced unscheduled cleaning caused by heavy impurities in the system.

DEFOAMERS

Foam occurs typically during the paper manufacturing process. The formation of foam can sometimes interrupt production processes, creates unnecessary downtimes, thus reducing plant productivity.

Foam can sometimes occur by mechanical means, e.g., mixing and due to turbulence in the process and through chemical reactions between papermaking additives.

The existence of foam must, therefore, be considered as an unwanted but inevitable fact in the papermaking industry. Defoamers have to be used in the manufacturing process to prevent foam formation.

GIG defoamer offers the best performance antifoaming agent available in the market, equally suitable for all grades of paper with 100 % active ingredients. Accurate surface foam control is one of its unique and distinguished properties. Its excellent emulsifying properties make it an efficient deaeration agent, which can be widely used in all processing systems. We also offer different types of defoamer or deaerator, depending on customer needs.

OPTICAL BRIGHTENERS

Optical brighteners are additives that are used to give a fluorescent effect that masks the yellowness characteristics of the fiber and enhances the brightness of the finished product in the paper industries.

GIG Chemie highly-concentrated optical brighteners are exceptionally effective compounds that improve whiteness considerably in all kinds of pulp.

SOFTENING AGENTS

GIG Chemie’s hi-quality softening agents provide premium and uniform quality surface and bulk softness. Our softeners have a distinct property of neither reducing the wet or dry tensile strength of the products nor influencing the Yankee coating chemistry. They guarantee excellent results with comparatively low dosing rates.

Our softeners product line consists of entirely non-debonding and 90% non-debonding softeners, and with the use of TSA-Tissue Softness Analyzer (Emtec), GIG Chemie can provide its respective customers quantifiable results of product softness improvement.

YANKEE DRYER CYLINDER COATING & INNOVATIVE TRIPARTITE COATING CONCEPT

The Yankee Cylinder is one of the most integral parts of the tissue paper machine. Its complete protection and stable runnability guarantee the production of excellent quality tissue paper products.

We, in GIG Chemie, fully recognize the industry’s essential requirements; thus, we revolutionized our approach by offering the latest & advanced adapted chemistries with our in-depth knowledge and experience in streamlining Yankee coating properties.

Our innovative tripartite coating concept is explicitly designed for the inhibition of corrosion and passivation of the Yankee dryer cylinder. These products yield to the production of soft and bulky tissue having a uniform smooth surface.

INNOVATIVE TRIPARTITE COATING CONCEPT

GIG Chemie’s innovative tripartite coating approach is based on a three or four-component Yankee coating system. It contains first-rate protective additives, which are necessary for the excellent protection of metal surfaces combined with crosslinking & non-crosslinking adhesives coating agents that are sprayed together onto the Yankee cylinder to acquire the desired results. This latest technology enables us to satisfy all requirements of most tissue machines, including the latest high-speed tissue machine with an operating speed of 2000 m/min and visconip press technology.

Our Releasing Additive, which is used together with the base coating & adhesive, is a non-ionic creping aid and has been developed for controlling the release effect on the Yankee cylinder while keeping the cylinder surface cleaner than usual.

Depending on your process requirements, our Release Agents are available in grades ranging from resilient to soft release effect.

Our well-experienced technical service team will guide you in selecting the most appropriate product combination for your specific process and machine requirements.

While using our innovative tripartite coating concept, you can improve and sustain your productivity and achieve the following key benefits:

  • Unsurpassed surface protection of the Yankee dryer cylinder
  • Extended blade life
  • Improved  sheet adhesion, which provides a fine Crepe with excellent  softness
  • Increased bulk of  lower gsm tissue, e.g., facial, pocket tissue
  • Improved moisture profile
  • Stability of the sheet in terms of ´´floating´´ after changing the doctor blade
  • Stability of thickness, creping and softness after changing the doctor blade

 EDGE PROTECTION:

Deposits usually occur on the Yankee edges which are not covered by the paper,  causing severe problems such as;

  • excessive blade wear and blade vibrations
  • abrasion
  • chatter marks
  • corrosion
  • an increased grinding interval of cylinder
  • irregular adhesion
  • Varying paper quality

GIG Chemie offers Edge Coating Agent, which contains corrosion inhibitors that forms a protective film on the Yankee edges, thereby providing the cylinder edge with an incomparable cleaning effect.

Tissue Paper Solutions

POLYMER / ENZYME REFINING AIDS

POLYMER AND ENZYME REFINING AIDS

The use of enzymes as paper additives started proliferating over the years and have been evaluated for their ability to modify pulp and paper characteristics beneficially.

GIG Chemie offers the latest “green biobeating” technology with its unique combinations of selected polymers and enzymes, which improve paper dry strength properties, increased short fiber proportion in the furnish, and reduced applied refining energy, even on lower dosages.

DISPERSING AGENTS

DISPERSING AGENTS

With the recent issues in paper recycling these days where the quality of waste papers are getting poorer, GIG Chemie provides a unique range of selected products for the repulping and dispersing of inferior quality and most challenging waste papers (i.e., paper products containing wet strength resins, adhesives, wax, coating polymers, hot melts, and glues).

GIG Chemie’s dispersing agents react instantly under ideal conditions, thus minimizing pulping time and enhancing the efficiency of the production line. They are very effective under any pulping conditions.

WET / DRY STRENGTH AGENTS

WET AND DRY STRENGTH AGENTS

GIG Chemie delivers a comprehensive range of additives for permanent and temporary wet strength and dry strength that improve the essential characteristics of tissue, paper, and board products.

These highly efficient additives allow our customers to achieve the required wet and dry strength features of their products and enhance their machine runnability.

With the optimized combination of our NEFESIN & TROFESIN product ranges, it provides the following advantages:

  • increases strength properties
  • improves machine efficiency on all kinds of furnishes
  • provides savings on cost and energy
  • remarkably reduces the required dosage
  • improves retention and drainage features
  • reacts positively with other process additives
  • reduces fines, dust accumulation, refining, starch, and CMC components
PITCH ELIMINATION / STICKIES CONTROL ADDITIVES

PITCH ELIMINATION AND STICKIES CONTROL ADDITIVES

Deposits, pitch, and stickies have an adverse effect on product quality and process productivity. Most mills experienced production loss due to contamination. Furthermore, aside from causing loss of productivity, deposits also cause holes and fouling smell on the finished product when left uncontrolled.

GIG Chemie offers innovational technology and adapted chemistry for the most effective pitch and stickies elimination, and control of all the deposits (both organic & inorganic) in the tissue, paper, and board manufacturing processes.

These revolutionized additives completely stop the tackiness, obstruct agglomeration, prevent accruement of residues, and facilitate in discharging the anionic and non-ionic trash from manufacturing processes. It can be applied throughout the pulping process, for fiber & contaminant surface treatment, and to make the residual particles across the papermaking process less reactive.

With the right product combination, along with its minimum dosage in the wet end area and on the machine fabrics, it provides very effective passivation.

Additional benefits of our product lines are the effective elimination of troublesome detrimental substances and a substantial improvement in the efficiency of all processing additives.

SYSTEM CONDITIONER ADDITIVES

SYSTEM CONDITIONER ADDITIVES

GIG Chemie offers highly concentrated products for the treatment of most water circuits, which eliminate slime and corrosive deposits, thus protecting the system from their adverse effect.

These biodegradable & environmentally friendly additives are used for the passivation and elimination of both incoming and existing organic deposits in the entire system.

 

SCALE DEPOSIT CONTROL ADDITIVES

SCALE DEPOSIT CONTROL ADDITIVES

Generally, some chemical reactions within the process turned the process water “hard,” and formed inorganic deposits inside the system. By reducing the water hardness and scaling caused by this chemical reaction, it can considerably improve several tissue paper essential properties.

GIG Chemie’s broad range of technological solutions, consisting of application professionals, functional chemistries, and the latest technologies which provide exceptional scale inhibition in variable conditions without interfering with other systems. Our scale deposit control will keep your system free of unwanted inorganic deposits either by the continuous or shock-dosing treatment. One of the outstanding features of our products is that they hinder the precipitation of organic salts or scaling compounds in the white water system.

Our additives are antiscalants with dispersing properties and passivation effects. These provide protection against the inorganic deposits, e.g., corrosion on the internal and external surfaces of machinery parts, including pumps and piping. It offers excellent sequestering and complexing properties and helps to stabilize alkaline earth ions, particularly calcium ions. All these lead to lowering your energy costs.

MICROBIOCIDES

MICROBIOCIDES

Microbiocides inhibit the growth of anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms, whose metabolic products can lead to corrosion and unpleasant odor.

GIG Chemie’s countless years of experience in microbiological control and protection gave them the mastery of providing custom made treatment solutions for the most complex situation and on the system with different temperature ranges.

Our well-tested products are characterized by its rapid and long-term activity against anaerobic and aerobic microorganisms such as bacteria, algae, protozoans, and fungi; they also inhibit the slime formation and microbiologically induced corrosion. They are biodegradable and designed to eliminate the formation of “biofilm,” slime & odor in the paper manufacturing, de-inking plant, and most recycled fiber processes. They provide sustainable & effective microbiological control without any harmful effect in the effluent treatment plant (ETP).

We, in GIG Chemie, offers microbiological water analysis of the complete process under the supervision of our skilled technicians, extend our full cooperation for technical services and training of your staff if requested.

CLEANERS

CLEANERS

GIG Chemie offers superior non-flammable, odor-free, and 100% solvent-free water-based products for the cleaning of wires, wet felts, dryer fabrics either through the continuous or batch type cleaning approach.

Our cleaners are more efficient than solvent-based products. The use of our cleaners provides more extended service life, and constant dewatering of machine clothing, thus resulting in energy savings, improved runnability, and fewer breaks.

MACHINE CLOTHING / SYSTEM CONDITIONERS

MACHINE CLOTHING & SYSTEM CONDITIONERS

Machine clothing is a necessity for papermaking machines; it keeps both wires and felts into their original, deposit-free condition during their entire operation period. It also decelerates the process of deposit formation and felt clogging by removing the accumulated undesirable impurities with the right cleaning chemistry.

GIG Chemie’s adapted conditioning chemistry provides the most efficient protective micro coating not only for paper machine clothing but also for manufacturing systems allowing prolonged clothing service lives and reduced unscheduled cleaning caused by heavy impurities in the system.

DEFOAMERS

DEFOAMERS

Foam occurs typically during the paper manufacturing process. The formation of foam can sometimes interrupt production processes, creates unnecessary downtimes, thus reducing plant productivity.

Foam can sometimes occur by mechanical means, e.g., mixing and due to turbulence in the process and through chemical reactions between papermaking additives.

The existence of foam must, therefore, be considered as an unwanted but inevitable fact in the papermaking industry. Defoamers have to be used in the manufacturing process to prevent foam formation.

GIG defoamer offers the best performance antifoaming agent available in the market, equally suitable for all grades of paper with 100 % active ingredients. Accurate surface foam control is one of its unique and distinguished properties. Its excellent emulsifying properties make it an efficient deaeration agent, which can be widely used in all processing systems. We also offer different types of defoamer or deaerator, depending on customer needs.

OPTICAL BRIGHTENERS

OPTICAL BRIGHTENERS

Optical brighteners are additives that are used to give a fluorescent effect that masks the yellowness characteristics of the fiber and enhances the brightness of the finished product in the paper industries.

GIG Chemie highly-concentrated optical brighteners are exceptionally effective compounds that improve whiteness considerably in all kinds of pulp.

SOFTENING AGENTS

SOFTENING AGENTS

GIG Chemie’s hi-quality softening agents provide premium and uniform quality surface and bulk softness. Our softeners have a distinct property of neither reducing the wet or dry tensile strength of the products nor influencing the Yankee coating chemistry. They guarantee excellent results with comparatively low dosing rates.

Our softeners product line consists of entirely non-debonding and 90% non-debonding softeners, and with the use of TSA-Tissue Softness Analyzer (Emtec), GIG Chemie can provide its respective customers quantifiable results of product softness improvement.

YANKEE DRYER CYLINDER COATING / INNOVATIVE TRIPARTITE COATING CONCEPT

YANKEE DRYER CYLINDER COATING & INNOVATIVE TRIPARTITE COATING CONCEPT

The Yankee Cylinder is one of the most integral parts of the tissue paper machine. Its complete protection and stable runnability guarantee the production of excellent quality tissue paper products.

We, in GIG Chemie, fully recognize the industry’s essential requirements; thus, we revolutionized our approach by offering the latest & advanced adapted chemistries with our in-depth knowledge and experience in streamlining Yankee coating properties.

Our innovative tripartite coating concept is explicitly designed for the inhibition of corrosion and passivation of the Yankee dryer cylinder. These products yield to the production of soft and bulky tissue having a uniform smooth surface.

INNOVATIVE TRIPARTITE COATING CONCEPT

GIG Chemie’s innovative tripartite coating approach is based on a three or four-component Yankee coating system. It contains first-rate protective additives, which are necessary for the excellent protection of metal surfaces combined with crosslinking & non-crosslinking adhesives coating agents that are sprayed together onto the Yankee cylinder to acquire the desired results. This latest technology enables us to satisfy all requirements of most tissue machines, including the latest high-speed tissue machine with an operating speed of 2000 m/min and visconip press technology.

Our Releasing Additive, which is used together with the base coating & adhesive, is a non-ionic creping aid and has been developed for controlling the release effect on the Yankee cylinder while keeping the cylinder surface cleaner than usual.

Depending on your process requirements, our Release Agents are available in grades ranging from resilient to soft release effect.

Our well-experienced technical service team will guide you in selecting the most appropriate product combination for your specific process and machine requirements.

While using our innovative tripartite coating concept, you can improve and sustain your productivity and achieve the following key benefits:

  • Unsurpassed surface protection of the Yankee dryer cylinder
  • Extended blade life
  • Improved  sheet adhesion, which provides a fine Crepe with excellent  softness
  • Increased bulk of  lower gsm tissue, e.g., facial, pocket tissue
  • Improved moisture profile
  • Stability of the sheet in terms of ´´floating´´ after changing the doctor blade
  • Stability of thickness, creping and softness after changing the doctor blade

 EDGE PROTECTION:

Deposits usually occur on the Yankee edges which are not covered by the paper,  causing severe problems such as;

  • excessive blade wear and blade vibrations
  • abrasion
  • chatter marks
  • corrosion
  • an increased grinding interval of cylinder
  • irregular adhesion
  • Varying paper quality

GIG Chemie offers Edge Coating Agent, which contains corrosion inhibitors that forms a protective film on the Yankee edges, thereby providing the cylinder edge with an incomparable cleaning effect.