Hello every, Recently, we developed a unique modified starch technology and we want to apply it to industry. But we need investment and we are not very clear about the market situation. Can anybody give me some advice about where to find investors who will be interested in develop chinese market or apply this technology to some foreign countries. And if anyone is interested in it, can join us. My tel number can be found at the auto-signature. If you are interested in it, I can give you more details about it. Thank you very much for your kind reply. The following is the introduction of our technology. If the following message annoy you, I will be terribly sorry for that. A starch-originated substitute for the peach gum On the outer package of some food grade material or product, adhesive agent is needed to disperse different pigments and coat on to paper. The essential characteristics for the agent include dispersivity, adhesiveness, levelling, rewetting and film forming capability. Originally, Arabic gum was chosen as the main adhesive agent. It can satisfy most purposes. However, Arabic gum is relatively expensive. Later it was substituted partly by refined peach gum. The dark brown sticky liquid peach gum gel has been proved effective in most circumstances. Its price is much cheaper than Arabic gum. Recently because the demand for peach gum has increased, and the quality of this gum depends on productive regions, on the processing technology and on the weather, end users of these natural gums suggested the possibility to substitute them to some degree with starch derivatives. For starch is plentiful and relatively cheap. Great efforts have been paid on research to find out suitable substitutes derived from different kinds of starch. In China several companies and research institutes showed interest in pursuing this goal. After more than half a year perseverance, a modified maltodextrin has been prepared which can meet the demand. In many tests, this kind of maltodextrin showed superiority over peach gum. For example, it is pale yellow, rather than dark brown; when used to disperse pigments like Red 5FRK and phthalocyanine blue, this maltodextrin gives out more satisfactory coating layers on paper. To prepare such modified maltodextrin, first the starch is liquefied to soluble maltodextrin, then undergoes chemical reactions at the presence of certain catalysts. Before concentration, the reacted material is clarified and purified. The samples demonstrated good levelling and adhesive power, its dispersivity, hydrophilicity and film forming characteristics are better than peach gum, it also has rewetting ability. It is estimated that the cost for producing this maltodextrin will be economic if on a reasonable scale. It will be a competitor to the peach gum. Have a nice day! Sincerely, chen zhong-ping ************************************************ Chen Zhong-ping National Bioengineering Research Center East China University of Science and Technology Meilong Road,130 Shanghai,200237 P.R.China E-mail: zpchen@21cn.com or nomad_chen@yahoo.com ICQ:5763589 Tel:86-21-64241083 Fax:1-240- 2698896(US) 86-0531-2029999-09235(China) ************************************************ I am an optimist, I don't know where I am going. But I'm on my way. chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)