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How Liquid Borax Can Improve Starch Applications

Borax has been known in civilizations for thousands of years, having first been discovered in Tibet in its dry lake beds. It occurs naturally in deposits produced by seasonal lakes as their waters evaporate and then replenish over the seasons. Turkey, Chile, Bolivia, and California are where

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Starch Adhesive and Its Versatility

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

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The Flexamix Solution

When it comes to finding solutions for the corrugated industry there is only one place to look: Rapid Bond, Inc. We are the premier leader for innovation and vision when it comes to technology that moves the bar forward. With many years of experience selling chemicals and

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Foaming Adhesive – Pzroviding a Strong, Reliable Bond

What are Foamers? Foaming adhesive is a cost saving technique that is commonly used in single face and litho laminating applications. Single face lamination was developed due to the limitations of applying graphic print, such as marketing or informational content, to corrugated material due to its thickness

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Starch Mixing System – Stirring Up Safer Environmental Practices

Corrugated plants generate a great vast amounts of wastewater every day. Not only can the wastewater be expensive to treat and dispose of, it is also wasteful of a resource that is in short supply during ever increasing periods of drought. At RapidBond, we challenged ourselves to

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Producing Cardboard with Corrugated Machinery

Advances in paper-making began with its modest roots in Egypt using Papyrus. It was the ancient Chinese who made paper from hemp and other cellular materials. The need for newspaper spurred the development of paper from wood pulp by Charles Fenerly in 1838. This sparked amazing technology

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Hot Melt Adhesive Suppliers Can Benefit the Corrugated Machinery Industry

Hot melt adhesive suppliers produce bonding glue that is activated by the application of heat and pressure. Invented in the late 19th century, Hot Melt adhesives are thermoplastic polymers that are economical and available in a wide variety of formats including, chips, pellets, blocks or cylindrical sticks.

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Can Corrugated Plants Achieve Zero-Discharge?

In an era of drought, with fresh water becoming an ever more precious commodity, many manufacturers are aiming to reduce their impact on the environment and practice sustainability. Corrugated plants are large consumers of water, with corrugator and Flexo wash water being sources of waste-water in particular.

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