Product Profile of Caustic Soda
Aditya Birla Chemicals [India] Ltd manufactures Caustic Soda. Aditya Birla Chemicals [India] Ltd is a unit of Aditya Birla Group and is a Chlorine Alkali manufacturing company in India. This Caustic Soda plays an important role in many industries such as: pulp and paper, textiles, soaps and detergents, bleach manufacturing, petroleum products, aluminum, and the Chemical Processing Industry [CPI].
The use of caustic soda in varied areas is:
- Pulp and Paper Industry: Caustic soda used in de-inking of waste paper and water treatment, as well as being a raw material in the pulping and bleaching processes.
- Textile Industry: Caustic soda is used in the chemical processing of cotton, including desizing, scouring, mercerization, and dying synthetic fibers, such as nylon and polyester.
- Soaps and Detergents Industry: Caustic soda is the alkali material frequently used in the saponification or conversion of fat, tallow and vegetable oils in the soap manufacturing process.
- Petroleum Products Industry: Caustic soda is used in the exploration, production and processing of petroleum and natural gas and removal of objectionable acidic malts, such as H2S and mercaptans, from hydrocarbons and off-gases generated in processing.
- Aluminium Industry: The production of alumina from bauxite is a major end-use application for caustic soda. It is used to dissolve bauxite as a first step in the production of aluminum.
- Chemical Processing Industry [Cpi]: Caustic soda is used as an intermediate and as a reactant in processes that produce solvents, plastics, synthetic fabrics, adhesives, coatings, herbicides, dyes, inks, pharmaceuticals, and many more industrial products. It is also used for the neutralization of acidic waste streams and scrubbing of acidic components from off-gases.
