OverviewGuar Gum Applications
Guar Gum and its derivatives are widely used in various industries as per its needs. It is used in industries such as food, animal feed, textile, pharmaceuticals, personal care, health care, nutrition, cosmetics, paper, explosives, mining and oil drilling. Manish Agro Gum, Jodhpur, India provides guar gum for pulp and paper industry, guar gum for textiles and also guar gum for cosmetics industry. Guar seeds or cyamopsis tetragonoloba termed as Guar Gum. Guar gum as natural gums is advantages as natural gelling agent for different industrial purpose.
Guar gum plays important roles in different processes in the form of Hydrocolloids, Fracturing Agent, Natural Fiber, Natural Thickener, Bonding Agent, Emulsifiers, Flocculants, Soil Stabilisers, Gelling Agent, Stabilisers and many more.
Food Grade Guar Gum Powder
Guar gum is one of the best thickening additives, emulsifying additives and stabilizing additives. In Food Industry Guar gum is used as gelling, viscosifying, thickening, clouding, and binding agent as well as used for stabilization, emulsification, preservation, water retention, enhancement of water soluble fiber content etc.
Some food products in which guar gum powder is used:
Pharmaceutical Industries
Guar gum powder is used in pharmaceutical industries as Gelling/ Viscosifying/Thickening, Suspension, Stabilization, Emulsification, Preservation, Water Retention/Water Phase control, Binding, Clouding/Bodying, Process aid, Pour control for following applications.
In tablet manufacturing it is used as a binder and disintegrating agent and in micro-encapsulation of drugs.
Industrial Applications
In Industrial Applications guar gum powder is a very versatile product and finds its different applications, as thickening, sizing agent, wet-end strength additive, gelling agent and water barrier, flocculation aid, for waste water treatment, as emulsifier, binder. Also used for mud formulations, enhanced oil recovery, polymer flooding, well treatment, lost circulation plugging etc. Mining grade guar gum is used in mining industry as a floatation agent flocculating or setting better quality agent.