About Payard: Where Expertise Meets Nature
At Payard, we bridge the pulse of nature with industry. Using modern technology, we produce high-purity wheat derivatives to elevate your product quality.
Payard Starch
Payard’s Iranian wheat starch facility was inaugurated in 1402 (2023/2024) in Urmia, West Azerbaijan an area bordering Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iraq.
At Payard, with an emphasis on quality, diligence, commitment, and integrity, we produce wheat starch, wheat gluten, and fiber. Proximity to native wheat resources and shorter logistics routes strengthens regional agriculture while reducing cost and improving operational efficiency.
With long-established flour mills in the region, raw material supply is stable and reliable. High flour-production standards—aligned between Payard and partner mills—help ensure consistent product quality.
Leveraging advanced production lines built in Iran, Europe, and East Asia, Payard products are now exported to more than 10 countries.
Scientific notes on starch (expand)
Starch is a white, granular, organic polymeric carbohydrate produced by green plants. It is essentially a chain of sugar molecules. This soft, white, tasteless powder is insoluble in cold water, alcohol, and many solvents. Its basic chemical formula is (C6H10O5)n. Starch is a major component of rice, corn, wheat, legumes, potatoes, and many other plant-based foods. It is a polysaccharide made of glucose monomers linked mainly by α-1,4 bonds and is commonly found as linear amylose and branched amylopectin.
Starch is a primary raw material for producing dextrose, dextrin, liquid glucose, and various syrups. It is also widely used across industries for improving physical properties, increasing colloidal stability, and providing thickening functionality e.g., in bakery mixes (as a filler and to prevent premature reactions), in sauces to stabilize emulsions, in biscuits and crackers to improve texture and help control pH, and in many processed foods. Starch is also used in numerous pharmaceutical formulations.
Lower-grade starches are also used in animal feed, textiles, drilling and oil wells, adhesives, papermaking, and cosmetic powders. Selecting the most suitable starch for each application requires relevant testing—such as impurities, soluble solids, dextrose equivalent, solubility, granule size, clarity, physical/chemical stability, color, gel strength, viscosity, residual SO2, and more so the application decision can be made based on robust data.