Chemicals for Pulp & Paper in Malaysia
ChemTrade supplies chemicals for pulp & paper in Malaysia. Each listing carries typical specifications, packing and availability.

| Product | Used for |
|---|---|
| 2-Ethylhexyl Acrylate | Comonomer in self-adhesive label stock, paper saturation latices and release coating polymers made by the converting trade. |
| 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate | Functional comonomer in paper and board treatment latices and in leather finishing polymers, contributing wet strength and bonding to a fibrous substrate. |
| Acrylamide | Raw material for retention, drainage, strength and process-aid polymers used in pulp and paper production. |
| Acrylic Emulsion | Used in paper and board coating formulations where an acrylic dispersion binder is specified. |
| Acrylic Resin | Resin binder in printing inks, overprint varnishes and paper or board coatings where solvent compatibility, pigment wetting and film formation must match the converting process. |
| Alkenyl Succinic Anhydride | Used as a reactive sizing chemical in paper and board production to tune liquid penetration and finished-sheet performance. |
| Alkyl Ketene Dimer | Internal sizing of printing and writing paper, packaging grades, liner, paperboard and other cellulose sheets where the mill targets resistance to liquid penetration under neutral or alkaline papermaking conditions. |
| Aluminium Stearate | Surface treatment and sizing additive where board or speciality paper needs water repellency and controlled slip. |
| Aluminium Sulphate | Rosin sizing and retention aid in papermaking, helping fix size and fillers to the fibre where aluminium sulphate is specified. |
| Aluminium Trihydrate | Mineral filler or coating pigment in paper and board applications where ATH is selected for brightness and controlled particle size. |
| Aluminum Chlorohydrate | Process chemical for selected paper and pulp systems where the buyer's retention, drainage or sizing process specifies the aluminium product. |
| Amino Silicone | Release and lubricity additive in paper converting and coating processes where an amino silicone surface effect is specified. |
| Ammonium Sulfamate | Formulation component for selected paper and cellulose treatments requiring an ammonium sulfamate salt rather than sulfamic acid or ammonium sulphate. |
| Amylase | Starch viscosity adjustment and selected paper-processing duties requiring controlled enzymatic hydrolysis. |
| Anthraquinone | Process additive in selected kraft pulping systems, where fine-powder dispersion, purity and dosing compatibility are specified by the mill. |
| Antifoam | Defoaming in pulping, stock preparation, washing and white-water circuits to limit entrained air and surface foam. |
| ATMP | Chelating or peroxide-stabilising component in selected pulp bleaching formulations. |
| Bismuth Vanadate | Printing and packaging producers use ink-qualified bismuth vanadate pigments where colour strength, fineness, vehicle compatibility and print-performance requirements suit the complete ink system. |
| Brilliant Blue FCF | Blue dye applications in paper processing and paper products. |
| Bronopol | Preservation and microbial-control duties in pulp and paper process water, additives and aqueous systems where compatibility and the incoming active specification have been established. |
| Butyl Acrylate | Comonomer in paper and board coating binders and saturating latices produced for the converting trade. |
| Calcined Kaolin | Coating and filler mineral for paper and board formulations requiring a controlled white powder with specified particle and optical properties. |
| Calcium Carbonate | Paper filling and coating mineral where brightness, particle size and retention suit the grade and process conditions. |
| Calcium Hypochlorite | Bleaching and decolourising aid in selected pulp and paper operations that call for dry hypochlorite. |
| Calcium Silicate | Mineral filler or processing aid in paper-related formulations selected by whiteness, particle profile, absorbency and compatibility. |
| Calcium Stearate | Surface lubricant and gloss or burnishing aid in coated paper and board, usually applied as a calcium stearate dispersion in the coating formulation. |
| Carboxylated Styrene-Butadiene Latex | Binder for paper and board coating systems where pigment compatibility, coating rheology, pick strength and final surface performance are assessed. |
| Carboxymethyl Cellulose | Surface size and coating binder, improving sheet strength and filler retention. |
| Casein | Coating binder and pigment dispersant for paper and board, where the protein gives gloss holdout and ink receptivity on the coated surface. |
| Catalase | Controlled hydrogen-peroxide decomposition in pulp, recycled-fibre, paper and process-water systems where residual oxidant must be reduced before the next process stage. |
| Cationic Starch | Wet-end retention, drainage and dry-strength chemistry, and surface sizing for paper and board machines. |
| Cellulase | Fibre modification, deinking support and process treatment in pulp and paper operations where a defined cellulase activity is compatible with the stock and operating conditions. |
| Cellulose Acetate Butyrate | Resin for selected printing inks and overprint systems under the formulator's solvent, pigment, viscosity and film-performance requirements. |
| Chlorine | Chlorination and bleaching feedstock in pulp and paper operations whose closed process equipment and chemical programme specify elemental chlorine. |
| Chlorine Dioxide | Oxidative bleaching in pulp and paper operations using chlorine dioxide at the concentration and feed conditions required by the bleaching stage. |
| Corn Starch | Surface sizing and coating aid to improve sheet strength, printability and surface finish on paper and board lines. |
| Cotton | Cotton linters as a high-cellulose input for speciality paper, security and filtration media, and related pulp systems that specify fibre cleanliness and cellulose characteristics. |
| DBNPA | Microbial and slime-control programmes in papermaking process water, subject to the site's formulation and dosing requirements. |
| Dextrin | Adhesive and binder for corrugated board, paper tubes, labels, envelopes, remoistenable gums and paper-coating formulations, selected by tack, viscosity and drying behaviour. |
| Dibasic Ester | Press and screen wash for ink and varnish residues, and a retarder in printing systems where drying needs to be held back. |
| Diethylenetriamine | Used as an intermediate in the manufacture of wet-strength resins for paper applications. |
| DTPA | Used as a chelating aid in pulp and paper bleaching systems, including formulations where control of metal ions supports hydrogen peroxide stabilisation. |
| DTPMPA | Metal-ion control and peroxide-stabilising component in selected pulp and paper process formulations. |
| EDTA | Controls transition metals in peroxide bleaching, which keeps brightness up and peroxide consumption down. |
| EO-PO Block Copolymer | Used in paper and pulp process formulations for surfactancy and foam control. |
| Epichlorohydrin | Intermediate in the manufacture of selected wet-strength and process resins used by paper producers. |
| Ethyl Acetate | Carrier solvent in flexographic and gravure ink systems printed onto paper, board and flexible film, chosen for a quick release on press without the odour of a ketone. |
| Ethyl Acrylate | Comonomer in paper and board coating binders and in saturating latices made for converting work, and in leather finishing polymers produced on similar plant. |
| Ethylene Bis Stearamide | Considered in selected paper, board and coating formulations as a waxy lubricant or release aid, with particle form and dispersion route matched to the process. |
| Fatty Alcohol Ethoxylate | Used in pulp and paper process formulations where wetting and surface activity are required. |
| Ferric Sulfate | Clarification and colour control in mill wastewater treatment systems that use iron coagulants. |
| Formaldehyde | Resin and treatment intermediate in selected paper, board and wood-panel adhesive systems where the receiving formulation specifies formaldehyde concentration and stabiliser limits. |
| Glyoxal | Wet-strength additive and coating component, and an insolubiliser for starch and polyvinyl alcohol binders on paper and board. |
| Glyoxylated Polyacrylamide | Dry-strength aid for paper and board grades where tensile, burst, compression or internal bond performance must be improved. |
| Guar Gum | Dry-strength and fibre-retention aid in paper manufacturing processes that use guar-based hydrocolloids. |
| Gum Rosin | Paper sizing and related pulp and paper applications that use gum rosin to control water resistance and surface character. |
| Hydrated Lime | Causticising in the kraft recovery cycle and precipitated calcium carbonate manufacture for paper filling and coating. |
| Hydrogen Peroxide | Brightening and delignification aid in pulp and paper mills that use peroxide bleaching to lighten fibre shade without a chlorine residue. |
| Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil | Coating, release and water-resistance component in specified paper and board processes, with hardness and melting behaviour matched to the application. |
| Isoamyl Acetate | Solvent and odour component in printing inks and coating systems applied to paper, board and packaging film, subject to resin compatibility. |
| Isophorone | Screen, gravure and speciality inks printed on board, film and packaging, where a slow solvent keeps the screen or plate open during a long run. |
| Isopropyl Acetate | Ester solvent and retarder in gravure and flexographic ink systems on paper, board and film, used where a press needs a little more open time than the lightest esters allow. |
| Isothiazolinone | Used as an isothiazolinone biocide option in paper and pulp processing applications where the active system is specified. |
| Kaolin | Filler and coating clay that improves brightness, printability, smoothness and ink holdout on printing and writing grades. |
| Laccase | Biobleaching and pulp-processing enzyme for paper operations that specify the required laccase activity and treatment conditions. |
| Lignin | Technical feedstock for lignin valorisation, chemical conversion and formulated binder or coating work adjacent to pulp and paper processing. |
| Limestone | Fine ground grades are used as mineral filler or coating feed in paper processes that specify natural ground carbonate rather than precipitated calcium carbonate. |
| Lithopone | Coating and filling pigment for paper and board, giving whiteness and surface cover in formulations that do not need the brightness of a full titanium dioxide coating. |
| Low-Density Polyethylene | Extrusion coating and lamination of paper and board where the grade must match line speed, draw-down, adhesion, coating weight and surface-finish requirements. |
| Magnesium Hydroxide | Alkali source in peroxide bleaching stages and a magnesium addition in mill chemistry, where pulp strength and brightness handling are the reason for choosing it over a stronger alkali. |
| Magnesium Sulphate | Magnesium source in selected pulp and paper processing and bleaching formulations. |
| Maleic Anhydride | Precursor to alkenyl succinic anhydride sizing agents and other paper chemistry, where the substituted derivative rather than this anhydride is the finished product. |
| Melamine | Resin manufacture for decorative paper impregnation, overlays and selected wet-strength or surface-treatment systems. |
| Melamine-Formaldehyde Resin | Resin for impregnated and coated paper systems where solids, viscosity, penetration, water tolerance and cure response are written into the converting process. |
| Metakaolin | Controlled-colour mineral filler in selected paper-related formulations where the buyer specifically requires metakaolin and defines particle size, brightness and surface-performance criteria. |
| Methacrylic Acid | Comonomer in paper coating binders, surface sizing and dispersant polymers used on board and speciality paper grades. |
| Methyl Acetate | Solvent carrier in gravure, flexographic and other printing ink systems applied to paper, board and film, subject to resin compatibility. |
| Methyl Amyl Ketone | Printing ink, overprint varnish and coating systems applied to paper, board and packaging substrates, where open time on press matters. |
| Methylene Blue | Blue tinting and colour-control work in paper-related formulations that specify Basic Blue 9 rather than a food colour or pigment. |
| MGDA | Chelation and metal-ion management in selected pulp and paper bleaching formulations. |
| Microcrystalline Wax | Wax blends, coated paper and board, packaging and laminating formulations that require flexibility, sealing behaviour or resistance to moisture. |
| Modified Starch | Surface sizing, coating binder and corrugating adhesive, where oxidised and acid-thinned grades give a low-viscosity solution at high solids and a film that improves surface strength. |
| Nitrile Butadiene Latex | Paper and specialty-sheet manufacturers use selected NBL grades as aqueous binders in coatings and saturated products specified by solids, particle and mechanical-stability requirements. |
| Nitrilotriacetic Acid | Chelating component in pulp and paper bleaching processes. |
| Optical Brightener | Fluorescent whitening agents are used in pulp and paper applications where the grade is matched to the process and required optical effect. |
| Oxalic Acid | Used in professional wood and pulp processing for controlled treatment of iron-related discolouration and surface brightening. |
| Oxygen Scavenger | Steam-generation and boiler-water systems in pulp and paper operations requiring a defined liquid or soluble-solid oxygen scavenger programme. |
| Ozone | Pulp and paper operations use ozone in selected oxidation and bleaching stages where fibre conditions, ozone dose, mixing, reaction time and residual-gas handling are controlled within the complete process. |
| Paraffin Wax | Coating and sizing board, corrugated cases and paper wrap to hold out water and grease. |
| Pentadecanoic Acid | Used in selected paper-processing, binder and lubricant formulations requiring a C15 saturated fatty-acid component. |
| Peracetic Acid | Bleaching and brightening duty on pulp, including sequences that avoid chlorine-based stages. |
| Photoinitiator 184 | Component of UV coating systems for paper and board where rapid curing and a clean film surface are specified. |
| Poly Aluminium Chloride | Retention, drainage and pitch control in papermaking, and clarification of mill effluent with a PAC coagulant dose. |
| Poly Ferric Sulphate | Colour, suspended-solids and phosphate removal in paper-mill water and effluent treatment programmes. |
| Polyacrylamide Flocculant | Retention aid for fillers and fines, and dewatering of mill effluent sludge. |
| Polyacrylic Acid | Dispersant for calcium carbonate and clay coating colours, and a rheology aid in pigment slurry preparation for board and coated paper grades. |
| Polyamide Resin | Ink and lacquer chemistry for paper, board and foil printing, including heat sealable coatings applied during packaging conversion. |
| Polyamide-Epichlorohydrin Resin | Wet-strength resin for tissue, towel, paper, board, labels and other fibre products that must retain strength after wetting. |
| PolyDADMAC | Used for charge control, retention, drainage and fixation duties in papermaking systems where a cationic polymer is specified. |
| Polyethylene Oxide | Paper producers use suitable high-molecular-weight polyethylene oxide grades in retention, drainage, formation and process-aid systems where furnish, cofactors, hydration and dosing conditions are evaluated together. |
| Polyethyleneimine | Cationic drainage, retention and fixative aid in specified pulp and paper systems, selected around molecular grade, charge demand, solids content and the furnish being treated. |
| Polymer | Retention, drainage and strength-related polymer grades in pulp and paper wet-end and coating systems when the process duty is stated. |
| Polyvinyl Acetate | Paper and packaging producers use PVAc as an adhesive and coating binder for converting, laminating, tube winding and fibre-bonding processes that specify solids content and viscosity. |
| Polyvinyl Alcohol | Surface size and coating binder that improves paper strength, printability and surface integrity. Fully hydrolysed grades are commonly selected where a tougher dry film is needed. |
| Potash Alum | Sizing and related paper chemistry duties where potassium alum is used to fix size and support fibre and filler retention. |
| Potassium Chlorate | Selected bleaching and oxidation chemistry where a process specifically calls for the potassium chlorate salt rather than sodium chlorate. |
| Potassium Ferricyanide | Blueprint, photographic and image-reduction chemistry associated with paper and film processes that specify red prussiate of potash. |
| Potato Starch | Surface sizing, wet-end additive and adhesive component for paper, corrugated board and related fibre products, including cationic or oxidised technical grades where specified. |
| Precipitated Calcium Carbonate | Controlled mineral filler and coating pigment where precipitated particle properties are required. |
| Pulp | Primary fibre furnish for printing and writing papers, tissue, kraft paper, liner, board and specialty paper, selected by fibre source, pulping process and bleach state. |
| Quicklime | Recausticising green liquor back to white liquor in the kraft recovery cycle. |
| SBR Latex | Coating binder for pigmented paper and paperboard coatings, where binder level and particle size influence coating strength, gloss and printability. |
| Shellac | Surface coating, barrier film and ink or printing formulation component for selected paper, board and label applications that specify shellac resin. |
| Silicone Emulsion | Release coating on paper and film, plus foam control during stock preparation and coating operations. |
| Slack Wax | Used in wax emulsions for board sizing and in corrugated paper and board coating formulations. |
| Soda Ash | Alkali source in pulping chemistry and paper mill process or effluent pH adjustment. |
| Sodium Alginate | Surface sizing and film-forming aid to improve printability, fold resistance and surface strength in selected paper grades. |
| Sodium Aluminate | Retention, drainage and sizing aid in paper making, and for pitch control and alkaline sizing systems where an aluminate source is preferred to an acidic aluminium salt. |
| Sodium Bisulfite | Process reducing and oxygen-scavenging applications where sodium bisulfite solution is named in the operating specification. |
| Sodium Borohydride | Reducing chemistry for pulp and paper bleaching systems, including processes that generate dithionite on site from sodium borohydride. |
| Sodium Chlorate | Feedstock for on-site chlorine dioxide generation used in elemental chlorine-free pulp bleaching and related brightening chemistry at pulp and paper mills. |
| Sodium Chlorite | Bleaching and brightening stages at pulp and paper mills that specify a chlorite route or generate chlorine dioxide close to the bleach plant. |
| Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate | Used as a formulation component in selected paper-mill and cooling-water microbiological-control programmes. |
| Sodium Formaldehyde Sulfoxylate | The material is used in reductive bleaching processes for pulp and paper applications. |
| Sodium Formate | Process salt in pulp and paper operations that specify a formate for pH control or as part of a bleaching or additive system. |
| Sodium Hexametaphosphate | Sequestering and dispersing aid in selected pulp and paper process streams where hardness and metal ions affect processing. |
| Sodium Hydrosulfide | Sulphur-bearing process chemical in selected pulp and paper operations where sodium hydrosulfide is named by the process specification. |
| Sodium Hydrosulfite | Brightening of mechanical pulp, recycled fibre and deinked stock, where a reductive bleach lifts brightness without the fibre loss of an oxidative stage. |
| Sodium Hydroxide | Pulping and bleaching wood fibre, and de-inking recovered paper. |
| Sodium Hypochlorite | Chlorine-based bleaching and brightening stages where sodium hypochlorite solution is part of the mill chemistry. |
| Sodium Metabisulfite | Reducing and process-control duties where solid sodium metabisulfite is specified. |
| Sodium Oleate | Deinking surfactant for recycled paper processing where a sodium oleate-based system is used. |
| Sodium Percarbonate | Brightening recovered fibre and assisting the removal of ink during recycling. |
| Sodium Polyacrylate | Dispersant for coating colours and calcium carbonate or clay pigment slurries in paper coating and board manufacture. |
| Sodium Sesquicarbonate | Alkali source and pH control in selected pulping, deinking and paper process streams that call for a carbonate rather than a hydroxide. |
| Sodium Silicate | Adhesive for corrugated board and paper tube winding, and a component of the peroxide bleach liquor in de-inking. |
| Sodium Sulphate | Sulphur and sodium make-up salt in selected kraft and other pulp-processing circuits that name sodium sulphate on the process list. |
| Sodium Sulphide | Pulp and paper process chemistry where a sulphide salt is specified in the mill recipe or recovery-related make-up. |
| Sodium Sulphite | Reducing-agent and bleaching-support duties in pulp and paper process streams where sodium sulphite is written into the mill chemistry. |
| Succinic Anhydride | Related paper-sizing chemistry often uses alkenyl or alkyl succinic anhydrides (ASA and similar derivatives), which are separate substituted products. Unsubstituted succinic anhydride may be requested for intermediate or research work; state the exact identity needed. |
| Sulphur Dioxide | Pulping, bleaching and process-water chemistry in mills that specify sulphur dioxide or an on-site sulphite system. |
| Talc | Filler and surface-related mineral in selected paper grades where brightness, print surface and pitch control are process priorities. |
| Tapioca Starch | Corrugating adhesive for board plants, and surface sizing to improve printability and sheet strength. |
| Tetraethylenepentamine | Used as an intermediate in wet-strength and paper-resin systems. |
| THPS | Used in pulp and paper process-water treatment where THPS chemistry is specified. |
| Titanium Dioxide | Whitening and opacity pigment in paper and board where titanium dioxide is specified for brightness and covering power. |
| Tributyl Phosphate | Foam control in paper coating colours, pulping liquors and wet-end process water, added at low dose so coating rheology and runnability are unaffected. |
| Triethylenetetramine | Polyamine intermediate for wet-strength resin and other paper-process chemistry requiring the selected ethyleneamine grade. |
| Tung Oil | Printing-ink and coated-paper systems may use heat-bodied or formulation-grade tung oil where vehicle viscosity, pigment wetting, cure and finished print performance suit the complete ink formulation. |
| Turpentine | Refined pine-derived turpentine streams used as downstream terpene feedstock by processors connected with pulp and paper value chains. |
| Ultramarine Blue | Shading and whitening in paper, board and coating slips, where the pigment offsets yellowness in the sheet rather than dyeing the fibre. |
| Urea-Formaldehyde Resin | Impregnation and bonding of decorative papers, overlays and related laminate materials where resin pickup, viscosity and cure behaviour are controlled by the converting process. |
| Vinyl Acetate Monomer | Feedstock for vinyl acetate polymer emulsions used in paper coatings, converting adhesives and related binder applications. |
| Wheat Starch | Surface sizing, coating and adhesive formulations selected by viscosity, solids handling and bonding performance. |
| Xylanase | Pulp prebleaching, fibre modification and process support where a mill-defined pH, temperature, activity and side-enzyme profile govern grade selection. |
| Zinc Stearate | Slip, release and burnishing additive in paper and paperboard coating, and a dusting powder that stops freshly coated or printed sheets from blocking. |
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