Whitening Agent, or optical brightener, absorbs invisible UV light and re-emits it as blue light, making paper look whiter and brighter. It lifts the visual brightness of paper without adding costly bleaching or fillers.
Key Benefits
- Visibly higher whiteness and ISO brightness
- Reduces the need for extra bleaching
- Grades for wet end, size press and coating
- Liquid grades for easy, dust-free dosing
- Consistent shade from batch to batch
Applications & Use Cases
- Writing, printing and copier paper
- Coated paper and board top layers
- Tissue and napkin grades
- Detergent and textile whitening
- Recycled grades to recover brightness
Industries Served
Writing & printing paper, kraft paper, duplex and packaging board, tissue, newsprint and specialty paper mills, along with pulp mills using agro-residue, wood or recycled fibre. Also used in detergents and textiles.
Why Source Whitening Agent – Powder / Liquid from Mittal Trading Company
Since 1988, Mittal Trading Company has supplied paper mills and process industries across India, Nepal and Bangladesh. We supply Whitening Agent – Powder / Liquid in grades matched to your process, with consistent batch quality, dependable dispatch and technical support from our team. Share your requirement and we will send a quotation with the technical data sheet.



