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Thai
Wah’s tapioca starch production is marketed under its well-known mark
of “Rose” brand which represents the top selected quality food grade manufactured
in Thailand. The general specification of this product is indicated on a
minimum standard basis as follows:
| Starch
content |
84.0% |
min. |
| Moisture
content |
13.5%
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max. |
| pH |
4.00-7.00 |
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| Pulp |
0.20 |
ml. max. |
| Ash |
0.20%
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max |
| Viscosity |
550 |
B.U.
min. |
(By brabender based on 6% starch, dry basis with 450 ml. distilled water
using 700 cmg. cartridge box.)
Tapioca
starch is normally packed for export in the 50 kilo polypropylene
bags with an inner polyethylene liner. Alternatively, it can also be packed
in net 100 lbs. 6 ply multiwall-paper bags. Other than these, shipments
to the U.S.A. and Japan are sometimes required in bulk packing of 500
kgs. in the so-called jumbo bags under a special arrangement.
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For several
decades, Thailand has been a world leading country in tapioca cropping,
where Thai Wah Public Co., Ltd. emerged in the early days as the pioneer
in tapioca starch making with a modernized technology. Today Thai Wah
has been developing massive production of tapioca starch from the country’s
abundant crop for world-wide export yearly.
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Tapioca
starch is a white and fine powdery material derived by wet-extraction
from the pulped roots of tapioca tubers. The uses of tapioca starch
are many as well as for substitution to potato and corn starch in
various fields of production such as glucose/dextrose syrup and all
kinds of modified starch. |
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