Starch adhesive is an eco-friendly glue that can be used to create a variety of products including corrugated boxes, paper bags, wallpaper paste, laminating, envelopes and more.

Why It’s Unique

Starch adhesives are also known as vegetable adhesives. These particular adhesives are largely preferred over other adhesives and glues, including animal glues. They are unique in part because they can be applied at hot or cold temperatures, which gives it a large range of uses.

Unlike other glues that must be heated to certain temperatures before use, the starch adhesive only requires to be mixed with water prior to use. The natural form comes from pearl starch such as corn, tapioca, wheat and potato. The tasteless, odorless powder is then mixed with water to create the versatile adhesive.

At RapidBond, we provide this environmentally friendly adhesive from all natural resources and supply it to the corrugated industry in North, Central and South America.

Roles in the Corrugated Industry

We understand the corrugated world and the demand for an environmentally friendly adhesive to produce products such as the corrugated boxes. These boxes are not only durable and versatile, but they are also lightweight and cost effective.

Starch adhesives are a key part of the corrugated industry as it literally holds together the product. For instance, corrugated board is made up by gluing a fluted layer of paper to a flat layer. The glue used in this process is the adhesive starch.

The Starch Kitchen

Some manufactures add additives to the starch to speed up the gelling or drying process and to cut production costs. Our company, however, is dedicated to creating solutions that eliminate the need for additives and to keep the adhesive in its purest form. This has been accomplished through the creation of Flexamix starch mixing module.

The Flexamix offers much sought after high-quality construction and technology that produces superior starch adhesive. Corrugated companies that rely on the Flexamix are able to improve their production in numerous ways while also reducing starch consumption, achieving high pin numbers, re-using untreated corrugators and flexo wash water to make the adhesive and most importantly keep the ingredients pure and eco-friendly.