The Trends of Recent Development in Papermaking Additives

The review is to introduce newly developed papermaking additives that has been applied to obtain a optimized papermaking production processes through paper quality and productivity improvements in recent years and near future. Not only the introduction of newly developed papermaking additives, but also the discussion on their application principles, methods, controls, inspections, and future development direction has been presented in the paper. The development of papermaking technology has focused on papermaking productivity, paper quality, and production effectiveness improvement through the optimization of the already developed technologies. It is thus concluded that even if noticeable innovative changes has not been in an area of papermaking additives, the development of several important papermaking additives in a technical aspect has been reported and improved the control and management of the papermaking system based on the development.