Enzymes for Paper & Pulp Recycling
Enzymes for Paper & Pulp Recycling
Select enzyme activities around your recovered-paper furnish and the paper properties you need to preserve. Screen mild treatments for deinking and controlled fibre modification, then confirm drainage, brightness and sheet strength in representative trials.
Match the Enzyme Route to Your Feedstock
Deinking trials
- Target: Printed recovered paper and suitable recycled furnishes.
- Solution: Evaluate cellulase and xylanase treatment before ink separation.
- Optimisation: Measure residual ink and brightness alongside fibre yield and strength.
Drainage & fibre treatment
- Target: Recycled pulp where fibre properties restrict processing.
- Solution: Screen carefully controlled cellulase or xylanase treatment.
- Optimisation: Track drainage, fines and sheet properties at each dose.
Starch-bearing residues
- Target: Recovered material containing accessible starch.
- Solution: Discuss amylase activity as a targeted screening option.
- Optimisation: Validate water chemistry, residual starch and downstream quality.
Choose Products for Your Evaluation
Compare these starting products under your process conditions, then refine the dose or commission a bespoke blend.
Plan Your Evaluation
Preserve the fibre you want to recover
The target is useful fibre modification, rather than maximum cellulose breakdown. Excessive treatment can sacrifice fibre yield or paper strength. Select the activity and dose using measured paper properties, and evaluate process-water effects before scale-up.
Your Feedstock. Your Conditions. Your Blend.
Compare enzyme options in parallel, then validate the strongest candidates in the process that matters to you.
Define the furnish & target
Characterise recovered paper, fibre composition, ink and contaminants. Set quality limits and a process-stage baseline.
Screen mild enzyme treatments
Compare activity, dose, pH, temperature and contact time. Use appropriate pulp vessels and matched untreated controls.
Confirm paper performance
Measure drainage, ink removal, brightness, fibre yield and handsheet strength. Select the best balance before pilot or mill trials.
The selected blend is based on measured feedstock performance and practical cost-in-use. Laboratory screening is followed by representative process validation.
Build Your Starting Blend with AI
Describe your material and operating conditions. This rule-based builder proposes an initial formulation for discussion; measured screening determines the final activities, ratios and dose.
Your process
Enter the key conditions.