Paper and board applications
Starch products are used in paper bags, tissues and packaging paper, corrugating board, and stationery – for wet end addition, size-press, surface coating.  It would be virtually impossible to make paper in all its current varieties and qualities without the help of starch products, because internal strength and surface "feel" both depend on it. Starch also improves the printability and writing properties of paper. It is added at several stages of the production process : while the paper is still a cellulose pulp, when it is passing through the drying rollers, and as a final coating to meet the many special requirements of printer.
Starches are also essential in the production of recycled paper.
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