Overview
Startec is a chemical company belongs to Celotech Chemical Group, that developing, producing and marketing modified starch products. With its products Prestar® Pregelatinized Starch and Stargel® Starch ethers, Startec is supplying many customers in construction industry.
Our portfolio of product is based on modification of natrual starches in different methods, either through physical or chemical modification, or both of that, we producing pregelatinized starches and starch ethers, our product portfolio is vast – and we don't just understand how individual products work, but how they work together too. This in-depth knowledge means we can tailor our systems to your products – giving them extraordinary workability, performance and functionality whilst preserving cost efficiency.
![]() Prestar Pregelatinized Starch is Starch that has been chemically and/or mechanically processed to rupture all or part of the granules in the presence of water and heat, and subsequently dried, we called it hydrothermal modification of native starch.The source of starch may be maize, potato, wheat starches or blends. Compared with Native starch, Pregelatinised Starch has improved functionality, including flowability, compressibility, and cold water solubility. It is available as a white, odourless and tasteless, moderately fine powder. | ![]() Stargel Starch ethers are used in mineral-based binding systems such as gypsum and cement: |