guar gum

What is Guar Gum

Guar Gum Powder is extracted from the Guar Seed after a multistage industrial process. The most important property of Guar Gum is its ability to hydrate rapidly in cold water to attain uniform and very high viscosity at relatively low concentrations. Its colloidal nature gives excellent thickening to the solution. Guar Gum, either modified or unmodified is a very versatile and efficient natural polymer covering a number of applications in various industries like food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, paper, textile, construction, oil & gas well drilling, mining etc, due to its cost effective emulsifying and thickening properties. Neelkanth Polymers produces High Viscosity Guar Refined Splits, Guar Gum Powder, Guar Gum Derivatives, Fast Hydrating Guar Gum, H.P. Guar and High Protein Guar Meal.

Applications of Guar Gum

Guar gum being a Natural Polymer is used everywhere and in almost everything. Note: Mouse over / Click over Images to learn more about their usage.

Frozen Foods
Used in: Ice creams, soft serves, frozen cakes etc. Functions: Guar Gum works as crystal growth controller, moisture loss controller, freezer burn reducer. syneresis controller, freezing point and thaw separation controller.

Confectionery
Used in: Breads, cakes, pastries, biscuits, chocolate, jellies etc. Functions: As moisture retaining agent, dough controller, binding agent, film forming agent, jelling agent, bloom controller, agar and gelatin replacer, glazing agent etc.

Beverages
Used in: Cocoa drinks, fruit juices, sugarless and alcoholic beverages. Functions: Guar Gum acts as a suspending agent in fruit beverages, maintains viscosity, Improves mouth feel.

Dairy Products
Used in: Yogurt, desserts, mousse, cheese etc. Functions: It prevents syneresis in cheese formation, improves texture and tenderness, maintains color and viscosity uniformly. It adds mouth feel to the dairy products.

Ketchup and Pickles

Used in: Sausage, pickles, barbecue, salad dressing etc.

Functions: It improves free flowing properties of sauce and reduces separation between water and oil phases. It is unique cold water dispersible, acid resistant, free water binder in salad dressings, sauce, pickles and relishes.

Pet Food
Used in: Veterinary preparations, calf milk replacer etc. Functions: It is a good thickener, stabilizing and suspending agent for veterinary preparations, It forms gels and retains moisture.

Oil & Gas Well Drilling

Functions: It is widely used in oil and gas well drilling due to its multi function such as fluid and water loss control, lubrication and cooling of drill bits, shale inhibitor and solids carrier. It has excellent solution rheology, stability, solubility and compatibility with other auxiliaries used in oil well drilling.

Mining & Construction

Used in: Concentration of ore, filtration etc. Functions: Floating agent, flocculating or setting agent, foam stabilizer, back water generator.

Pharmaceuticals
Used in: Laxatives, sustained release drug, vitamins, syrups. Functions: Used as a binder & disintegrating agent in tablet perpetration. Used in laxatives to increase intestinal transit time and to increase stool. Suitable suspending agent in anti-inflammatory drugs, etc.

Paper Industry
Used in: Wrapping papers, crafts, photographic paper, filter etc. Functions: Guars cost effectiveness and properties make it a useful polymer for paper industry. It increases fold, tensile, strength, pick and pulp hydration. Simultaneously it decreases the porosity and improves finish.

Textile Industry
Used in: Cotton, rayon, silk, wool sizing, carpet printing etc. Functions: In sizing it increases the strength of the wrap thereby reduces its breakages and also reduces the dusting of sizing machine. It is used as a dispersant and thickening agent for dyes in textile printing.

Tobacco Industry
Used in: Cigar, Cigarette, Kreteks, Gutka etc. Functions: Guar Gum is used as a binder for fragmented tobacco fins of reconstituted tobacco. It is used as a binding and strengthening agent.

Toothpaste
Used in: Toothpaste, ointments, conditioners etc. Functions: Its high viscosity & lubrication property, imparts slip for extruding the paste from the tube without any excessive function. Its used as detergent compatible thickener, lubricator, suspender & film forming agent etc.

Cream & Cosmetics

Used in: Lipstick, Shaving cream, hair shampoos etc. Functions: Used as thickening agent, lubricating agent, suspending agent, detergent compatible thickener, protective colloids, film forming agent.

Miscellaneous
Used in: Water based paints, Explosives, Photography, Water treatment, Fire fighting, Incense sticks, Mosquito coils & mats, Soups, Snacks, Puddings, Noodles, Gem, Ceramics, Synthetic resin, Wallpapers, Polishes, Battery electrolytes, Printing inks etc.

Food Colors Natural Food Colours Castor Oil Other Products

Guar Gum is a creamish white free flowing powder and free from extraneous matter. Its ability to suspend solids, bi bonding, control the viscosity of aqueous solutions and form strong tough films, have accounted for its rapid growt industries.

Industrial grade Guar Gum is used in Paper, Textile Processing, Explosives, Detergents, Drilling Fluids, Ceramics, Pa industries. The purified grade is used in the Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetic and Food Industries. Guar gum is a natural produ the ability to swell by hydrolyzing with water, it can be used in a variety of water systems for food and industrial applic viscosity, stabilizes, and emulsifies water systems as well as bind moisture to itself. FOOD PHARMACEUTICALS HYDROSEEDING BAKERY OIL DRILLING CARPET PRINTING EROSION CONTROL EXPLOSIVES MINING COSMETICS PAPER MOSQUITO COILS

Applications of Guar Gum FOOD AND PHARMACEUTICAL:

Guar Gum in pure form when used in the ice creams acts as a superior stabili texture by preventing the formation of coarse ice crystals. Guar Gum is us stabiliser in food and

The present trend is to use agro-based Guar Gum only for Ice cream, wit Preservatives, in place of Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC), which is a chemical and therefore objectionable, in Europe, Japan and America f

In squashes, sauces and sherbets, it functions as a suspending agent and as a low calorific food value, and it is an excellent bulk laxative. It is used as a Calamine and Barium Sulphate. It increases the mechanical strength of tabl readily disperses in water. It is used in jellies and ointments as a thicke viscosity and gives better foam stability in shampoos. It is compatible with g tooth-pastes.

BAKERY:

Guar Gum is used in the Bakery Industry, in Bread, Pastry, Cakes and Cookie to dough making in Bread, it helps to retain moisture and hence t It keeps the Bread smooth, pliable and fresh for longer time and imparts appearance to Bread.

GRASS GROWING / EROSION CONTROL:

Guar Gum has a major application in the grass growing and erosion control ind as a water binder to retain moisture on the soil surface, particularly on slopes Guar Gum to the water systems will help to anchor the hydro seeding mixture in the

It is used in systems that protect against hydraulic lift and shear forces cr discharges, so whether grass is grown on slopes, channels, or straight-aw residential lawns, golf users to athletic fields to parks, using Guar Gum pre enhances grass growing.

COSMETICS:

Guar Gum is soluble in cold and hot water and this solution is not attacked b Protective colloid forming capacity results in emul It is also a good thickener and suspending agent in Cosmetics.

FEEDS:

Guar Gum is used as a binder in the fish feed pellets. The binder ke disintegrating quickly when placed in water and greatly reduces the consump pond.

OIL WELL DRILLING:

Guar Gum when used in oil well drilling muds, gives a better colloid thereby It regulates the viscosity of mud solution, stabilises and regulates the flow pr muds. We are making Gelling Agent II and Gelling Agent III.

SPECIFICATION OF GELLING AGENT GRADE II SPECIFICATION OF GELLING AGENT GRADE III

EXPLOSIVES:

By mixing Guar Gum in Ammonium Nitrate, Nitro-glycerin & Oil Explosives, e explosive property is

This is due to the better swelling, water blocking and gelling properties of Gua

PAPER:

Guar Gum is used in paper manufacture as a better additive. It gives dense used for

Guar Gum imparts improved evasive and writing properties, better bonding s hardness. Due to improved adhesion, it gives better breaking, Mullen and fold

MINING:

Guar Gum is used in mining potash, gold, copper and platinum group metals and as a depressant.

HYDROSEEDING: Guar Gum is used as a Tackifiers or Binders.

GUAR GUM IS ALSO USED IN THE FOLLOWING INDUSTRIES:

Insecticides & Pesticides Detergents & Soaps Paint Industry Electrodes & Brazing Fluxes Plywood Leather Industry Foundry Tobacco Processing Pencils Crayons Adhesives Mosquito Coils

Guar Gum Applications in India

Guar Gum (read Guar Gum Powder) and its derivatives are widely used in various industries as per its needs. It is used in industries such as food, textile, pharmaceuticals, personal care, health care, nutrition, cosmetics, paper, explosives, mining and oil well drilling.

Guar gum mainly functions as a thickener, emulsifier, stabilizer, binding agent, gelling agent, natural fiber, flocculant, fracturing agent etc. in the mentioned industries.
Percentage Share of Various End Uses of Guar

Cosmetics & Others - 5% Pharmaceuticals - 5% Industrial - 55% Human & Cattle - 35%

Important Application of Guar Gum

Guar Gum polymer is used principally as a viscous slugging fluid, pumped at connections to ensure all cuttings are removed from the annulus while drilling surface holes with water. It is particularly useful offshore, as it can be added directly to seawater. Direct mixing eliminates the need for large quantities of drill water as well as the time required to prehydrate bentonite.