Stickies have the potential to contaminate the components either within or around the equipment necessary in the Stages of Manufacturing that a Paper Mill follows in its Developed Process, but would have otherwise excluded it in its routine cleaning and maintenance procedures.
The main sources for stickies are recycled paper,[1] waxes, and soft adhesives.
[2] Stickies are an indefinite mixture of organic compounds, with the main part being different esters.
Micro stickies are transported with the pulp to the paper machine and might agglomerate and cause problematic deposits there.
Chemical-physical alterations like pH, temperature and charge changes might cause colloidal destabilization and agglomeration of micro stickies.