Gelatin is a being used in new products every day

Innovation and Creativity Welcome

• Enhancing safety
• Fun and games
• Putting your best image forward
• Creating light
• Color or black-and-white
• Bet you never knew how it was done

Gelatin is versatile and has many opportunities for future development. The following are just a few of its innovative uses. Do you have products that might benefit from gelatin’s special advantages and strengths? See our “Contact Us” page for more information about how to contact us.

“Gelatin’s only real limit is the creativity of our customers!”

Enhancing Safety

Used during building renovation, gelatin’s special traits give it advantages over other materials. When it comes to protecting people from asbestos fibers in the air during renovations, you can spray a gelatin solution onto contaminated asbestos at the time of renovation. This spray forms an elastic network that ensures that fibers are glued together and do not come off at the time of asbestos removal.

Fun and Games

Paintball - Gelatin is used in the paintball itself as a “soft gel encapsulation” application. 

Putting your best image forward

Paper Making – Gelatin is primarily utilized for coating papers and surface sizing.  A coating of gelatin creates a smooth surface by filling up the small surface imperfections thereby ensuring superior printing reproduction.

Creating Light

Match stick manufacturers use gelatin as a binder in the manufacture of the matchstick head.  The special traits of gelatin are vital as foam properties and affect the functioning of the match on ignition.

Color or black-and-white

Printing equipment manufacturers use gelatin compositions in printers, rollers and plate wiping rollers for multicolor presses and offset lithography. They have been doing it this way for over 100 years. These applications include photogravure, silk-screen, collotype and carbon printing.

Bet you never knew how it was done

Micro-encapsulation uses gelatin in the form of a microencapsulate dye, which forms a fine coating on a sheet of paper. By using micro-encapsulation, when pressure is applied by typing or handwriting on top of the sheet, a precise copy of the first paper results on the next sheet.