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Fillers for Paper
Paper Frictionizing
Colloidal Silica for Paper Retention And Drainage

Silicas for Paper Applications

Grace Davison Engineered Materials offers various silica materials for specific applications in the paper industry:

  • Colloidal silica dispersions as a nano particle retention aid in the wet end
  • Sodium aluminum silicate as functional filler in the paper machine wet end
  • Paper Micronized silica gel in specialty papers, for example in the coating of thermal and other specialty printing papers to improve absorption properties
  • Colloidal silica and the coarser micronized silica gel as a frictionizer in packaging and other paper grades like grinding papers to enhance anti-slip characteristics
  • Colloidal silicas for surface treatment to improve the gloss and printability of uncoated papers
Grace Davison is the second-longest continually operating chemical company in the United States.