Caustic Soda Sodium Hydroxide Food Grade

Sodium hydroxide is mainly used in papermaking, cellulose pulp production, soap, synthetic detergent, synthetic fatty acid production and animal and vegetable oil refining. Textile printing and dyeing industry is used as desizing agent, scouring agent and mercerizing agent for cotton cloth. Chemical industry is used to produce borax, sodium cyanide, formic acid, oxalic acid, phenol, etc. The petroleum industry is used for refining petroleum products and for drilling mud in oil fields. It is also used for surface treatment of alumina, zinc and copper, glass, enamel, leather, medicine, dyes and pesticides. Food grade products are used in food industry as acid neutralizer, peeler of citrus and peach, detergent of empty bottles and cans, decolorizing agent and deodorizer.