Category: Technical & Other

Shellac, waxes gums and resins are employed to meet a variety of technical applications across a wide range of industries. Listed below are some of the main products along with just a handful of examples of their use, but it is by no means exhaustive and probably only represents the tip of the iceberg.

Product	Type	Examples of Use
Accroides Powder	Resins	Used as an additive in the manufacture of paper, paint and dyes. Also a raw material in explosives and ammunition.
Agar Agar Powder	Gums	Used across multiple industries, ranging from dentistry to farming.
Beeswax Pellets	Waxes	Used as a lubricant, to insulate electronic components, and in artwork, beekeeping, car polish and surfboard wax.
Brasifen Powder	Shellac	Used as a constituent in flexographic inks, lightbulb capping cement and fireworks.
Carnauba Wax	Waxes	Used in automotive wax polishes, as a thickener for solvents and oils, a hardener for printing inks, and a mould release agent for plastics.
Copal Lumps	Resins	Used as a picture varnish and in printing inks and adhesives.
Damar Lumps	Resins	Used in printing colours and as a varnish for oil paintings.
Dragon’s Blood	Resins	Used in printing for photo-engraving, as a dye to colour paper, and an additive in red inks and painting pigments.
Earth Wax/Ozokerite	Waxes	Used in the manufacture of carbon paper and heel-ball shoe polish, and as an insulator.
Elemi	Resins	Used in printing inks.
Ghatti Powder	Gums	Used in oil well drilling, as an emulsifier to mix petroleum with non-petroleum waxes, a stabiliser in automobile polish and a water barrier in explosives.
Guar Powder	Gums	Used in the hydraulic fracturing process (fracking) and as a waterproofing agent in explosives.
Gum Arabic	Gums	Used in inks, paints and lithography printing, as an edible glue, and as an emulsion in photography.
Karaya	Gums	Used as a denture adhesive.
Mastic	Resins	Used in dentistry, photographic negatives and paints.
Microcrystalline Wax	Waxes	Used in sealants, adhesives, printing inks, sculpturing and jewellery casting, sports equipment and to modify Paraffin wax.
Paraffin Wax	Waxes	Used as a sealant, for lubrication and rust prevention, and in thermostats, printer ink, rubber, electrical insulation, casting, pyrotechnics and sports equipment.
Rosin	Resins	Used in solder, printing inks and oil paints, and for stringed instruments and sports & leisure applications.
Sandarac	Resins	Used for dental fillings.
Shellac	Shellac	Used in automotive polishes, rubber, pyrotechnics and as an electrical insulator. Also dentistry, fishing and watchmaking.
Tragacanth	Gums	Used as an adhesive in the rolling of cigars.
Xanthan	Gums	Used in oil field drilling.

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