Guar for Industrial Use

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Address operational inefficiencies and quality challenges across industries: from textiles and paper to mining and construction. Produced from guar seeds through a simple milling process, IFF Industrial Guar forms a gel and film, acts as a thickener, aggregates fine particles, and adjusts viscosity in aqueous systems.

Explore how our guar gum can support your industrial formulations and process goals.

IFF guar is supported by responsible practices: ISO 14001:2015 certification, Sedex membership, and SMETA auditing.

Why Use Guar?

IFF guar solutions for industrial use combine proven performance, tailored functionality, and sustainability commitment, helping you optimize processes and unlock value in demanding industrial applications.

Tailored Functionality

Our guar portfolio is designed to deliver performance across diverse industrial applications, supporting consistent results, efficient processing, and reliable quality, including:

Viscosity and flow control
Particle retention and binding
Water retention for workability and curing (construction and coatings)
Reduced phase separation and sedimentation
Porosity control and resistance to greases or solvents
Effective performance at low use levels

Plant-Based & Planet-Friendly

As a plant-based ingredient, guar is biodegradable and can be a non-toxic alternative to some synthetic options.

In selected applications, guar can help replace synthetic additives such as flocculants, supporting solid–liquid separation, promoting particle aggregation in liquid systems, and improving settling performance, while contributing to reduce chemical pollution

Guar can be grown in semi-arid regions and is often cultivated with relatively low irrigation demand compared to many other crops.

Broad Portfolio

Our broad portfolio includes dedicated product families, each designed to meet specific performance and process requirements across key industrial applications:

MEYPROGUM™ NP series for textile printing, supporting broad dye compatibility and consistent print performance

MEYPROID™, MEYPROBOND™, MEYPROFILM™, and MEYPROCOAT™ solutions tailored for paper wet‑end, size press, and coating applications

MEYPRADEX™ grades engineered for mining and slurry explosives, including solutions with integrated cross‑linking functionality.

IFF Guar for Industrial Applications

Paper

In papermaking, IFF Guar plays a critical role across the entire process, from fiber preparation to surface finishing, by delivering controlled functionality that enhances strength, efficiency, and final paper quality.

Our solutions can be applied across paper types, from graphic and tissue to packaging and special papers.

Textile

IFF Guar is primarily used as a thickener and protective agent in textile sizing and printing processes, strengthening yarns, enabling clean removal after processing, and ensuring precise, high‑quality textile printing across dyes and fibers.

Special IFF Guar grades can be used as carpet printing and dyeing thickeners, ensuring stable viscosity and uniform color distribution during the process.

The result: fewer disruptions and textiles with consistent quality.

Construction & Coating

The rheological properties of IFF Guar help limit water loss in construction materials such as cement and plaster, reducing cracking risk and supporting adhesion over time.

As an effective viscosity modifier, guar can also improve coverage and film formation in coatings, enhancing surface uniformity and appearance.

Civil-Use Explosives

IFF Guar helps create more predictable formulations for controlled engineering applications.

With its gelling and binding properties, it can support a uniform, stable structure and controlled viscosity for safer handling and pumping.

Typical uses include tunnel construction, roadwork, mining, and snowslide protection.

Mining & Mineral Processing

Serving as a filtration and separation aid, IFF Guar supports efficient liquid–solid separation and can help reduce resistance during filtration.

As an effective thickener and gelling agent, guar improves stability, moisture resistance, and process reliability.

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Let’s Bring Your Next Solution to Life

Partner with IFF to move from concept to commercialization. Our teams can help you develop and optimize guar solutions for industrial markets that meet your performance, process, and sustainability goals.

Guar Gum for Industrial Use