High Degree of Substitution CMC Carboxymethyl Cellulose for Construction Building Paint

CMC stands for carboxymethyl cellulose. However, CMC is more correctly the sodium salt of carboxymethyl cellulose.

> CMC has the ability to impart viscosity to aqueous solutions. CMC is pseudo-plastic, thixotropic and essentially non-thixotropic rheology by nature.

> It serve many functions such as: viscosity modification, thickening, suspension, stabilization and gelation.

> CMC is widely used in food, oil and gas drilling, synthetic detergent, buildings, ceramics, textile, and mineral separation.

CMC has a good binding suspension and dispersion strength. It has long storage stability without any decomposition.

> CMC in paints restricts the crystalline growth of fillers and extenders such as calcium sulphate.

> CMC is a very useful thickener in the paint industry because of its film forming ability.

> CMC is used in the manufacture of plastic emulsion paints water soluble paints as well as in dry and oil bound distemper.