Industry
Imaging
Gelatine excels in both filmability and coatability, making it highly versatile in various applications. In its liquid state, it serves as an effective dispersing agent due to its optimal viscosity range. When in gel form, gelatine functions as a strong binding agent, providing significant jelly strength. Additionally, its ability to crosslink with various chemicals ensures excellent dimensional stability for thin layers. In traditional applications, such as silver halide technology, each layer of the emulsion must have distinct properties. The different grades developed by Anchi are specifically designed to meet these specialized requirements, ensuring optimal performance for each layer.
- Emulsion Grades: These are specially formulated to be photographically inert, ensuring compatibility with silver halide crystals for all relevant applications.
- Bulk Gelatine: Used primarily for coating purposes, providing a consistent and smooth application layer.
- Dispersion Gelatine: Ideal for preparing dispersions of dyes and sensitizers, facilitating uniform distribution.
- Subbing Gelatine: Enables effective coating of the emulsion onto a polymer base, ensuring proper adhesion.
- Interlayer Gelatin: Prevents migration and diffusion between layers, maintaining the integrity of the layered structure.
- Overlayer Gelatin: Protects photographic emulsions from abrasion, enhancing durability and longevity.
- Modified Gelatins: Designed to remove excess soluble salts after the precipitation of silver halides, improving the quality and performance of the emulsion.
Paintballs
Paintballs are soft gelatin capsules designed for recreational use. They are manufactured using rotary die machines, but with specialized shell compositions and fillings. Here is a typical recipe for the Paintball Shell:
- Gelatin: 45 – 47%
- Plasticizer: 20 – 22% (such as glycerin or non-crystallizing sorbitol)
- Water: 30 – 32%
- Dyes and Opacifier
- Preservatives
For the Paintball Fill, the standard recipe includes:
- Dyes
- Opacifier
- Main Vehicles: PEG 400 or 600, and/or PEG 3350
Technical Other Use
- Foaming Agent: Due to its foaming properties, this colloid can create the necessary pores for instant ignition when combined with oxidants, fire initiators, and fillers.
- Adhesive Agent: Gelatin’s high strength, elasticity, and tenacity make it valuable in adhesive applications, particularly for high-end products like musical instruments and furniture.
- Electrolysis: When added to the electrolyte, gelatin enhances the formation of smooth, compact deposits on the cathode, reducing material loss during production.
- Textiles: Gelatin can form a film on yarns, improving the tenacity, strength, smoothness, and elasticity of fibers to prevent breakage.
- Abrasive Industry: Used in the production of emery cloth and emery paper.
- Photosensitized Film Blocker: When combined with dichromate, gelatin is employed to create negative photosensitized films.