Metal surfaces are first cleaned before being processed. Cleaning with alkaline solutions is the oldest form of commercial metal cleaning and still the most widely used. Our granulated sodium metasilicates are especially suitable for metal surface cleaning. Their granular, free-flowing property ...
In the textile industry our sodium silicates and metasilicates are used in operations such as cleaning, wool scouring, bleaching and dye fixation. Dye fixation: our sodium silicates are used as an alkaline buffering agent to keep reactive dyes stable. Bleach stabilisation: peroxides, used for ...
Our sodium silicates are used as corrosion inhibitor in water distribution systems such as drinking water- and industrial distribution pipelines. Furthermore, our sodium silicates also help in the complexation of iron and manganese to prevent discolouration. The benefit of sodium silicate as a ...