Chemicals-Sodium silicates

Some applications of sodium silicates :

• For their detergent properties: in silicated soaps, in fabric washing powders, for dishwashers, for cleaning metals, for washing bottles;
• For their binding properties: in cardboard and paper making, in the production of refractory and insulating materials, in the timber, fertilizer and welding electrode industries, in casting for sand molding, for ground consolidation, for fire protection;
• For removing ink from waste paper, in water treatment, in ore flotation, for production of special cements and of cracking and zeolite catalysts;
• As intermediate products in the manufacture of Zeolite A (sodium silicoaluminate).