Paper coating binders comprising vinyl acetate are used extensively in North America for their contributions to brightness, opacity, porosity, and stiffness. Besides typical performance properties, new binder selection criteria are emerging in the paper industry emphasizing environmental impact and profit improvement. Today, new vinyl acetate technology has been developed to satisfy the undermet needs of the declining coated paper segment - but there is an enduring fear of white pitch problems.

Download our Whitepaper and learn more about the role of synthetic (latex) coating binders on white pitch formation and a way to effectively fight deposition on a paper machine by chemical treatment of the coated broke.