Cellulose Ethers Association
Cellulose Ethers Association

Cellulose ethers are named after, and based on, cellulose - a renewable and the most common chemical compound in organic nature.

There is a broad range of cellulose ethers available (e.g. Carboxymethylcellulose, Ethylhydroxyethylcellulose, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Hydroxypropylcellulose, Methylhydroxyethylcellulose and Methylhydroxypropylcellulose).

These are used as additives in such diverse industries as food, paint, oil recovery, paper, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, adhesives, printing, agriculture, ceramics, textiles, detergents and building materials.

cellulose ethersimprove the product quality in these industries and act as thickeners, water retention agents, suspending aids, protecting colloids, film formers or thermoplastics in such different products as dispersion paints, drilling muds, ice cream, tablet coatings, wallpaper paste and tile adhesive.

A lot of those cellulose ethers used in building industry (generally knows as "modified cellulose ether") are blends with other additives. Their function may be to improve desired properties, to reduce or wholly suppress undesirable properties
In principle modified cellulose ethers may contain each thinkable mortar additive, but in practice they are limited to those, whose action is almost independent of the binder system. Set retarder and accelerators are an example for less suitable candidates for blending because of their individual interaction with different binders.
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