Gum rosin WG

Product Description

Rosin, also called colophony or Greek pitch, is a solid form of resin obtained from pines and some other plants, mostly conifers, produced by heating fresh liquid resin to vaporize the volatile liquid terpene components. It is semi-transparent and varies in color from yellow to black. At room temperature rosin is brittle, but it melts at stove-top temperatures. It chiefly consists of different resin acids, especially abietic acid.

Gum Rosin product is used for the manufacturing of paper, paint, soap and printing ink. Since rosin is easily softened and oxidized, in the oil paint industry, the carboxylation reaction of resin acid is usually employed to produce resinate for further use. While in the producing of synthetic rubber and printing ink, resin acid is changed into disproportionate rosin, polymerized rosin, hydrogenated rosin, etc for further use by its double bond reaction.

• used for paper sizing, improving the strength and smoothness, increasing wear resistance,
• used for thermoplastic coating, such like road marking
• used as vehicle body and enhancing the adhesion in ink industry
• as film forming material for controlled-release fertilisers
• used as a binder component of adhesive, includes rubber based adhesive, synthetic resin based adhesive and plant base adhesives