Sca Development Aktiebolag

Ab Casco

Alf Hugo Karlsson

Axel Bengt Wennerblom

Hans E Lundstrom

Lars-Henrik Olsson

An absorbent cellulose material is disclosed which comprises a substituted cellulose having an average degree of substitution sufficiently low to render the material insoluble and in which the fibers have an increased surface area formed by bursting the fibers during drying. In addition, a method of manufacturing such absorbent material is also disclosed which comprises providing an insoluble substituted cellulose material having an average degree of substitution sufficiently low to render the material insoluble, swelling the material to its maximum swelled state, fixing the material in that state, and drying the material while maintaining the material in its swelled state to thereby prevent shrinkage of the material during drying and to cause the fibers to burst during drying.

Method of manufacturing cellulose derivative

An improved fuse size, as well as a method for preparing same, are disclosed. Specifically, the fuse size disclosed includes a combination of urea and carboxymethyl cellulose, preferably including added starch. The method disclosed includes combining the urea and carboxymethyl cellulose, heating the mixture, and then adding an oxidizing agent to the mixture in the presence of a metal ion which has at least two oxidation stages, but which is in the lower of said oxidation stages when added thereto. In a preferred embodiment, the oxidizing agent employed comprises hydrogen peroxide, and the metal ion is preferably bivalent iron, added in the form of a ferrous salt such as ferrous chloride.

Method of preparing size

The present invention relates to a new process for preparation of lignin resin, i.e., thermosetting resin based on lignin, particularly from sulfite waste liquor, which resin for example can be used as a binder in particle board.

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Njurunda, Sweden

Alf Hugo Karlsson