SOY CHEMICALS FOR PAPER PROCESSING - Soy New Uses

strength additive, Lionsurf ® , Hydrores ®Hydrores ® Gamma, a technology that combines AKD and rosin size.AS, efficient ASA-based sizing technologies andAshland is based in Covington, KY and had 2010 sales of $9,012 million. Aqualon and HerculesWater Technologies groups provide expanded paper chemical offerings in many process,functional and water management chemistries such as flocculants, dispersants, antiscalants,strength resins, Kymene ® , Ameristat ® , Biosperse ® products DrewfaX ® and DrewslipS ® .Other Companies of Interest:Koch Industries in Wichita, KS with an estimated 2008 sales of $100 billion, is the largestprivately held company. Georgia Pacific LLC is a subsidiary based in Atlanta, GA. Georgia Pacificis one of the world’s leading manufacturers and distributors of tissues, toweling, printing andwriting paper, linerboard and food packaging. Top brands include Quilted Northern, Dixie andBrawny paper towels. Paper chemical products include internal and surface sizing agents, dryand wet strength resin brands Ambond ® , Amres ® and Novaflow ® . They also provide GPChemicals LLC performance chemical additives used in the papermaking process. These includerosin based sizes, creping and draining aids and products primarily used in bleached paper andpaperboard grades. GP has building products and bleached pulp divisions.Buckman Labs in Memphis, TN is a subsidiary of Bulab Holdings, a leading producer of specialtychemicals to include scale and corrosion inhibitors, defoamers, dispersants, flocculants,retention/drainage, surface sizes, the Mosiac ® microparticle system, enzymatic fibermodification and Bubond ® 408 dry strength resins.Solae, a joint venture between DuPont and Bunge, markets soy protein-based polymers underthe brand name of DuPont Pro-Cote ® and is active in supplying the paper industry with soybasedresins for paper coatings.CURRENT SOY MARKETS AND RESEARCHSOY PROTEINSSoy proteins are made up of 18 amino acids that are covalently linked through peptide bonds toform linear polymers with molecular weight range between 150,000 and 600,000 Da. Thechemical moieties in the amino acids - carboxy, thiol, hydroxyl and amine groups - give rise toan entangled, globular three-dimensional arrangement of helical coils, beta sheets and foldsknown as the tertiary structure. In the natural state, polar and charged amino acids are likely tobe hydrated at the surface of the globular protein, whereas the non-polar residues stick to each30