General Company Info

Penford Products is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is a leading supplier of specialty chemical starches to the paper and textile industries. Penford is a full-line, value-added supplier—from research and development to products for the wet end, size press and coater in papermaking applications as well as adhesives for laminating papers. All Penford products add value to printing papers, packaging grades, tissue and textiles by bringing a higher level of quality to the finished product and manufacturing efficiencies to the production process.

Penford's recent introduction of liquids, high solids, ready-to-use carbohydrate-based additives, adhesives and binders—continues the Penford tradition of innovation in specialty carbohydrate chemicals.