From rice bran to a high-performance additiveIn this context, the development of modified rice bran waxes and their micronised variants represents a significant breakthrough. The innovation is based on the dedicated modification of (crude) rice bran wax, a renewable raw material. The source material (crude rice bran wax) mainly consists of long-chain saturated carboxylic acid esters with long-chain aliphatic alcohols. Crude rice bran wax is a valuable non-food competing by-product of the rice oil industry and is obtained when rice bran oil is dewaxed. Versatile use of modified rice bran waxesModified rice bran waxes show outstanding performance in various coating applications – from printing inks to can and powder coatings.