The present disclosure relates to food safe water resistant articles, which include recyclable cellulosic utensils having a food safe water resistant material. In addition, food safe water resistant composition used for preparing food safe water resistant articles as well as use of the same are also disclosed.

A manufacturing method of a paper, board or the like having a grammage in a range of 125-600 g/m.sup.2, preferably 150-210 g/m.sup.2, including adding a paper sizing agent including maleated vegetable oil and an alkenyl succinic anhydride (ASA) to a fibre stock including at least 80 weight-% of recycled fibre material and having calcium concentration of at least 500 mg/l, expressed as CaO.

The present disclosure provides novel paper sheet mulch products having benefits over prior sheet mulches, which may include brown or recycled fibers, as well as additives, such as opacity, water-resistant, and strength additives, resulting in mulch products with an improved combination of basis weight, stretch, strength, opacity, and/or water-resistance characteristics.

A method for manufacturing paper or board is disclosed and further disclosed is an internal sizing system for providing improved retention of hydrophobic internal sizing agents. The internal sizing system includes a hydrophobic internal sizing agent as a first component selected from a group consisting of alkenyl succinic anhydride (ASA), alkyl ketene dimer (AKD), rosin sizes and any combination thereof, and a water-soluble polymer product including amphoteric polyacrylamide as a second component, which amphoteric polyacrylamide has neutral or cationic net charge at pH 7, a weight-average molecular weight of 700,000-18,000,000 g/mol and a total ionicity of 4-28 mol-%, where the first component and the second component are provided as separate components or as a combination of the first component and the second component.

A method for manufacturing paper or board is disclosed and further disclosed is an internal sizing system for providing improved retention of hydrophobic internal sizing agents. The internal sizing system includes a hydrophobic internal sizing agent as a first component selected from a group consisting of alkenyl succinic anhydride (ASA), alkyl ketene dimer (AKD), rosin sizes and any combination thereof, and a water-soluble polymer product including amphoteric polyacrylamide as a second component, which amphoteric polyacrylamide has neutral or cationic net charge at pH 7, a weight-average molecular weight of 700,000-18,000,000 g/mol and a total ionicity of 4-28 mol-%, where the first component and the second component are provided as separate components or as a combination of the first component and the second component.

A composition for sizing paper includes alkenylsuccinic anhydride (ASA) as the sizing agent and an emulsifier system of anionic emulsifiers and nonionic components, wherein the anionic emulsifiers are chosen from alkali metal salts of aliphatic carboxylic acids or aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and the nonionic components are chosen from polyethylene glycols.

A composition for sizing paper includes alkenylsuccinic anhydride (ASA) as the sizing agent and an emulsifier system of anionic emulsifiers and nonionic components, wherein the anionic emulsifiers are chosen from alkali metal salts of aliphatic carboxylic acids or aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and the nonionic components are chosen from polyethylene glycols.

A method of preparing a sizing boost additive, includes: I) combining a lignin oil and an aqueous solution of gelatinized cationic polysaccharide to obtain a lignin/polysaccharide blend, wherein the lignin oil is obtained by base catalyzed depolymerization of lignin; and the gelatinized cationic polysaccharide is prepared by cooking dry cationic polysaccharide in water until completely gelatinized; and wherein a weight ratio of lignin oil:polysaccharide in the blend is 1:0.5-2, where the weight of the polysaccharide is the weight of dry polysaccharide added in preparation of the aqueous solution of gelatinized cationic polysaccharide; and the combined weight of lignin and polysaccharide is 1-10 wt-% based on the total weight of the resulting blend; followed by II) mixing the lignin/polysaccharide blend at a temperature of 40-100 C., until the blend has changed color from grey-white to brown.

Processes for imparting oil and grease resistance to paper products. In some embodiments, the process can include combining a plurality of fibers and water to produce a slurry; forming the slurry into a wet web; pressing and draining the wet web to produce a wet sheet; and drying the wet sheet to produce a dried sheet. A sizing composition and a barrier compound can independently be applied to at least one of the slurry, the wet web, the wet sheet, and the dried sheet. The sizing composition can include one or more alkenyl succinic anhydride compounds. The barrier compound can include a polyolefin dispersion, a styrene acrylate emulsion, a sucrose ester, a modified starch, styrene maleic anhydride, an ethylene acrylic acid dispersion, a styrene acrylic acid, a polyvinyl alcohol, an ethylene vinyl alcohol, or a mixture thereof. The dried sheet can have an average KIT Value of at least 3.

Processes for imparting oil and grease resistance to paper products. In some embodiments, the process can include combining a plurality of fibers and water to produce a slurry; forming the slurry into a wet web; pressing and draining the wet web to produce a wet sheet; and drying the wet sheet to produce a dried sheet. A sizing composition and a barrier compound can independently be applied to at least one of the slurry, the wet web, the wet sheet, and the dried sheet. The sizing composition can include one or more alkenyl succinic anhydride compounds. The barrier compound can include a polyolefin dispersion, a styrene acrylate emulsion, a sucrose ester, a modified starch, styrene maleic anhydride, an ethylene acrylic acid dispersion, a styrene acrylic acid, a polyvinyl alcohol, an ethylene vinyl alcohol, or a mixture thereof. The dried sheet can have an average KIT Value of at least 3.