Georgia-Pacific Resins, Inc.

Margaret A Dulany

Clay E Ringold

Chad E Garvey

Ramji Srinivasan

A composition of matter (resin) useful for imparting wet strength to paper products is prepared from a polyamine, a polycarboxylic acid or ester, a dialdehyde and epichlorohydrin. Wet strengthened paper products made using the resin are more easily repulped than paper products made with conventional wet strength agents.

Repulpable wet strength resins for paper and paperboard

Polyamidoamine-epichlorohydrin resin solutions with less than 1500 ppm of epichlorohydrin hydrolyzates after acid stabilization are produced by contacting the resin solution with either (a) dibasic phosphate salts having the general formula M.sub.2 HPO.sub.4 where M represents Na, K, or NH.sub.4, or (b) a nucleophilic alkanolamine at a temperature of less than about 50.degree. C. for a time sufficient to produce a product solution having, after stabilization with acid, less than 1500 ppm of epichlorohydrin hydrolyzates.

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Decatur, GA, United States of America

Margaret A Dulany