The group's principal activities are to develop, manufacture and market carbohydrate-based specialty ingredient systems for industrial and food applications. The business is carried on through two segments namely industrial and food ingredients. The principal products include ethylated starches and cationic starches. Ethylated starches are used in coatings and as binders in the manufacture of magazine, fine white and catalog paper. Cationic starches are generally used in the paper-forming process in paper production, providing strong bonding of paper fibers and other ingredients. Specialty starches produced for food applications are used in coatings to provide crispness, improved taste and texture and increased product life for products such as french fries. The group has international operations in Australia and New Zealand.
