Wet\/PDG starch is a type of starch which has been modified such that it can dissolve or dispense in cold water without being heated to create pastes and gels. It has cold solubility, thickening, binding, film forming properties that render it a useful ingredient in food, pharmaceutical, paper, textile, adhesives, cosmetic, as well as the construction industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To entrepreneurs, the development of PDG starch comes as a prospective opportunity to add value to the current processing capacity and ready usable native starch (corn, tapioca, potato, cassava) to achieve a potential end use in several markets. This will result in a sustained global demand of PDG starch that provides producers with capacity to operate at least in some of viable end markets and hence cuts\/lessens dependence on one market to provide capacity to sustainably operate in the market. The forces behind increasing demand and value of PDG starch remain related to convenience in food consumption or prepared food consumption, continuing demand and reliability in melted or modified starch as a pharmaceutical excipient, and consistency related with use in industry, when a required adhesion or binding is needed e.g. paper, adhesives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asia Pacific region is experiencing an expansion of the need to meet growing demand of food processing and industrial consumption and is rating as an example of the demand compared to the mature markets of Europe or North America which tend to be larger, stable and hence more mature. These circumstances offer both giving chances of marketable surplus of PDG or industry grade or greater specialty or increased value grade of PDG- or modified starch materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n