Chemistry, process and intelligence
for every gypsum board line.
Retarders, dispersants, foaming agents and starches engineered in our lab — paired with the people, calculators and field manuals that run them. We commission new lines, we walk stalled ones up to nameplate, we publish the patent record weekly, and we answer the phone at 03:00 when the kiln drifts.
- 01 Specialty additives + on-site formulation
- 02 Commissioning & ramp-up to nameplate
- 03 Optimization across 14 plant pillars
- 04 Plant toolkit — live process calculators
- 05 Patent intelligence with diagrams
- 06 Weekly intel digest, every Monday
- · REACH registered
- · ISO 9001:2015
- · ASTM C471M compliant
Four lines. One process logic.
Set Retarders & Accelerators
Tune the hydration window between hemihydrate slurry and the cut-off knife.
Dispersants & Water Reducers
Cut your water-to-stucco ratio and pay the kiln less per square metre.
Foaming Agents & Density Modifiers
Engineered foam architecture for lightweight, dimensionally stable board cores.
Starches, Binders & Paper Bond
Hold the paper-to-core bond through the kiln — and through 30 years of service.
The patents that quietly run your plant.
UltraLight, Habito, DensGlass, Type X. Six families dissected with annotated diagrams, claim-by-claim readings, and the plant implications most legal summaries miss.
Four working calculators.
Retarder dose vs water hardness. Foam draw vs target density. BHP to stucco. PCE dose vs W/S. Empirical, first-order, fast — bookmarkable.
Where chemistry meets the conveyor.
Annotated production diagram from slurry to bundler with chemical injection points.
From first board to nameplate.
A four-phase program for greenfield startups and brownfield optimization.
14 pillars. One operating system.
Sales, QA, sourcing, sustainability, finance, R&D — orchestrated for plant operators.
A trade journal that happens to sell additives.
Foam Collapse: A Root-Cause Checklist for Plant Engineers
Twelve questions to ask before you call your supplier.
The Pin Mixer: Geometry and Foam Incorporation
Why two physically identical mixers produce different boards.
Why Your Set is Drifting: Water Hardness, Stucco Age, Accelerator Mill
A drifting setting time is almost never a single cause. It is usually three small ones.
Reading the Saint-Gobain Lightweight Board Patent Family
Foam stability, core density and what EP2090559 actually claims when you strip the legal language.
1,800 m/h line. 6.4% kiln gas drop. Three weeks.
A Western European producer ran a 1,800 m/h Type S line on legacy BNS. Eight bench trials, two reduced-speed runs and one 24h qualification later, the line ran long-side-chain PCE at 0.21% bwoc, paired SLS/AOS foam at 60/40, migratory starch lifted 0.45% → 0.62%.
Read the line trial →