Helping our customers

Roquette’s customer support is illustrated by three examples :

1 - Roquette cationic starches which are used as retention and draining aids in the paper industry help respect the environment by reducing effluent BOD and COD.
Use of these starches in surface-sizing gives similar advantages.

2 - During agglomeration processes, certain binders may generate atmospheric pollution, notably through the emission of sulphur or nitrogen containing gases.
Starch products play an important role as binders, promoting more effective agglomeration of coal dust, ores, steelwork sludge, charcoal powder and cellulose or textile wastes. This results in improved control of releases to the atmosphere.

3 - In the case of soil pollution by hydrocarbons, potato solubles deliver the required amounts of nitrogenous material to promote the growth of the micro-organisms necessary to break down the pollutants.
These Roquette solubles offer the benefit of a progressive release of their nitrogen and minerals. It has been demonstrated that they are only slightly affected by leaching and are therefore not required in excessive quantities.