Metso has entered into an agreement to provide a comprehensive thickener modernisation for a customer site in Mexico, to ...

As it begins to uncoil, the thickener becomes more water-soluble. Further increases in pH cause the polymer to adopt a more open long-chain structure, causing thickener molecules to become entangled.

This results in water becoming the continuous phase ... structure that leads to a notable increase in viscosity. Texipol thickeners are supplied in a pre-neutralized form, meaning that thickening ...