kenya chemical is one of the biggest Chitosan distributors, manufacturers, exporters, and suppliers in Fujairah, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, kenya. We are supplied to various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, chemical, Animal feed additive, Food additive, Agrochemical, Fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, Minerals, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Chitosan is a linear polysaccharide composed of randomly distributed β-(1→4)-linked D-glucosamine (deacetylated unit) and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (acetylated unit). It is made by treating the chitin shells of shrimp and other crustaceans with an alkaline substance, such as sodium hydroxide.
Chitosan has a number of commercial and possible biomedical uses. It can be used in agriculture as a seed treatment and biopesticide, helping plants to fight off fungal infections. In winemaking, it can be used as a fining agent, also helping to prevent spoilage. In industry, it can be used in a self-healing polyurethane paint coating. In medicine, it is useful in bandages to reduce bleeding and as an antibacterial agent; it can also be used to help deliver drugs through the skin.
APPLICATION&FUNCTION
Medicine Grade
1. Promoting blood coagulation and wound healing;
2. Used as drug sustained-release matrix;
3. Used in artificial tissues and organs;
4. Improving the immunity, guarding against hypertension, regulating blood sugar, anti-aging, enhancing acid constitution, etc,
Food Grade:
1. Antibacterial agent
2. Fruit and vegetable preservatives
3. Additives for healthcare food
4. Clarifying agent for fruit juice
Agriculture Grade
1. In agriculture, chitosan is typically used as a natural seed treatment and plant growth enhancer, and as an ecologically friendly biopesticide substance that boosts the innate ability of plants to defend themselves against fungal infections.
2. As feed additives, can inhibit and kill the harmful bacterium, improve animals’ immunity.
Industrial Grade
1. Chitosan has good adsorption characteristics of heavy metal ions, applied in the treatment of organic wastewater, dye wastewater, water purification, and textile industry.
2. Chitosan can be also applied in the paper-making industry, improving the dry and wet strength of paper and surface printability.
Carboxymethyl Chitosan
Carboxymethyl Chitosan is the higher ramification of chitosan, which has 100% water solubility, film-forming ability, heavy metal chelation. It has been applied in advanced cosmetics, heavy metal chelating agents, drug sustained-release agents, plant growth regulator agents, wastewater treatment, etc.
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