Pitch despergents - in paper production (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for pitch despergents, in paper production. The Reference Product is pitch despergents, in paper production. The product pitch despergents, in paper production represents substances that can be used for the binding of sticky material (pitch) that usually contain resins from wood. Wood chips contain about 1 to 5% of pitch material. A pitch despergent has the aim to avoid that these pitch materials are deposited onto the papermaking equipment. Substances used as pitch despergents include latex, talc, components of defoamers, and aluminium sulphate. For the production of pitch despergents, in paper production equal shares of aluminium sulfate, powder, latex and malusil are used. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/17645/documentation