Chlor-Alkali

A solutions provider to nearly every part of the chemical industry

Aditya Birla Chemicals, India’s largest manufacturer and a global leader in caustic soda, is actively working towards greener, safer and more sustainable solutions for value chains around the world. We go beyond providing commodity solutions, and engage with our customers to provide bespoke solutions to their business needs. 

Being a significant player in the Chlor-Alkali industry, Aditya Birla Chemicals produces a variety of products that have diverse applications, including pulp and paper production, hydrogenated fats production, and water purification. With 8 manufacturing units in India and 1 in Thailand, Aditya Birla Chemicals is among the top 10 Chlor Alkali manufacturer in the world. DSIR recognized R&D lab facilities, and products certified by ISI, ISO, NSF, Reach and CAA enable us to provide customized solutions thus making us a preferred partner of choice.

Product Brands

Base Chemistries
Caustic Soda Lye & Flakes

The Caustic Soda Flakes are also known as Sodium Hydroxide. Our products are devoid of any foreign matter, dirt, or other visible impurities. The varied range of applications for both caustic soda lye and flakes include production of pulp and paper, soaps, detergents, viscose fibre, zeolites, food additives, textile processing, organic chemicals like dyes, and inorganic chemicals like sulphites, phosphites and in aluminium refineries.

Chlorine

It is widely used to treat water as well as in the manufacture of Sodium Hypochlorite, Calcium Hypochlorite, Poly vinyl Chloride, Isocyanates, Polycarbonate, Chloromethanes, Perchloroethane,  Phosgene, Ferric chloride, Epichlorohydrin, Poly aluminium chloride, Silicon dioxide (aerosol), and Chlorinated paraffin

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a by product released during the production of caustic soda. The gas is then treated, and compressed to be used in hydrogenation of edible oils for making Vanaspati and non-edible oils for making soaps, hydrogenation of petro-products for making hard lubricants, sintering in the making of tungsten carbide tool bits and in powder metallurgy, underwater gas cutting and plasma cutting, rocket propulsion, and the production of hydrogen peroxide.

Hydrochloric Acid

Food grade hydrochloric acid is used in the production of food ingredients, food additives, and in the sugar and brewery industries. Industrial grade HCl is used for other purposes, like petroleum refining and leather treatment. Also known as hydrogen chloride or muriatic acid, HCl has a variety of applications including production of Monosodium Glutamate, Glutamic Acid, Phosgene, floor cleaning products and dyes, and in latex coagulation, metal pickling, petroleum refineries, leather industry, sugar refining, breweries, galvanizing and water treatment.

Sodium Hypochlorite

Also known as chlorine bleach or soda bleach, sodium hypochlorite works as a great steriliser, decolouring agent, oxidiser, germicide, fungicide, and deodorant. It is also used as a bleaching agent for rayon pulp, paper, cotton, linen, and jute, a household bleach for fly control, water treatment, and pool chlorination and as a disinfectant and deodorant in dairies.

Chlorine Derivatives
Chlorinated Paraffins (CP)

As a trusted chemicals supplier, we offer chlorinated paraffin under the brand names of Aryafin and Kanofin. CPs are complex mixtures of chlorinated n-alkanes containing thousands of homologues and isomers. They find use as flame retardants and plasticizers, as additives in metalworking fluids, in sealants, paints, adhesives, textiles, leather fat and coatings.

Aryafin CP belongs to a group of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons having straight chain lengths (Cn H 2n+2) with Carbon number from C10 onwards. Produced by the controlled chlorination of carefully selected paraffins of required chain lengths, we offer various grades having Chlorine content varying from 30% to 72%.

Polyaluminium Chloride

Polyaluminium chloride (PAC) provides faster flocculation and stronger flocs than alum across many applications. One of the common poly aluminium chloride uses is linked to water purification. PAC is manufactured in both liquid and powder form. The product is used in deodorants and antiperspirants, as a flocculant in water purification, in treatment of drinking/potable water, wastewater treatment and paper sizing. We offer this product basket under Vikram brand name as a coagulation and flocculation expert.

PAC is supplied in form of water solution or as powder, which facilitates the transport and storage operations and subsequent dosage of the reagent. We have developed the know-how and technologies for production plants of the following grades of PAC:

  • PAC 18%
  • Mid-basicity liquid PAC, containing 17.5 ± 0.5% Al2O3, specific for waste waters and neutral sizing in papermaking. It is used as a primary coagulant aid for any clarifying/ flocculation process relating to the treatment of surface or underground water and urban or industrial effluents. PAC 18 is based on highly charged aluminium which results in lower dosage and therefore reduces sludge volume and pH adjustment demand. It also improves solids and/or phosphorous removal over conventional coagulants.
  • PAC 9% HB
  • High-basicity liquid PAC, containing 9 ± 0.5% Al2O3, specific for potable waters. PAC 9 is based on highly charged aluminium which results in lower dosage and therefore reduces sludge volume and pH adjustment demand. It also improves solids and/or phosphorous removal over conventional coagulants.
  • PAC 30%
  • Mid-basicity powder form, containing 30 ± 0.5% Al2O3

 

 

 

Phosphoric Acid

Phosphoric acid (also known as orthophosphoric acid or phosphoric acid) is a mineral (inorganic) acid having the chemical formula H3PO4. Dilute aqueous solutions of phosphoric acid exist in the ortho form. As a leading phosphoric acid manufacturer, we believe in the value of our product, since it finds varied applications in pretreatment chemicals for metal surfaces, detergents and cleaners, sugar refining, phosphates, edible oils, colas, bakery, cheese, pharmaceuticals, yeast formation, etc.

Phosphoric is used in the making of perfumes in the home and personal care industry. Food grade phosphoric acid is used as an acidulant and flavouring agent in the carbonated beverage industry, as an emulsifier into fats and oils, as a degumming agent for vegetable oils and sugar and as an acidulant for baking powder and emulsifying salts for cheese. In addition to being a chemical reagent, phosphoric acid has a wide variety of uses, including as a rust converter, food additive, dental and orthopaedic etchant, electrolyte, soldering flux, dispersing agent, industrial etchant, fertilizer feedstock, and a component of home cleaning products

Stable Bleaching Powder

Produced using hydrated lime and chlorine, our offering of the Grasim stable bleaching powder is used as a disinfectant in water treatment and also in the textiles, pulp and paper, and carpet industries. The critical aspect is the active chlorine content in the stable bleaching that finds usage across applications in the aquaculture industry as a disinfectant, in-home and personal care as a whitener, in the paper and pulp industry and textiles as a bleach and extensively in water purification. It is also used in swimming pools as a disinfectant and cleaning agent, apart from controlling algae.

Aluminium Chloride

Anhydrous aluminium chloride is a principal catalyst used in the Friedel-Crafts reaction, both acylations and alkylations. The product also finds application in the manufacture of Ibuprofen and other bulk drugs, ethyl benzene, isopropyl benzene, titanium dioxide, hydrocarbon resins, terpene resins and polybutenes. 

Various organic and inorganic chemicals including ethyl benzene, isopropyl benzene and titanium dioxide are made using aluminium chloride anhydrous. Aluminium chloride anhydrous is used to manufacture various drug intermediates. Through its use in the Friedel-Crafts reaction, aluminium chloride anhydrous helps in the manufacture of dyestuffs.

High Strength Bleaching Powder

Available in form of free flowing white granules with 65-70 % available chlorine, it is used in effective disinfection of water. It helps to eliminate bacteria, viruses and waterborne diseases. It is a strong oxidizing agent which acts as bactericide and fungicide. It is used in  

  • Municipal sector for potable water disinfection, 
  • Industrial sector for algae control for cooling tower, process water disinfection, effluent and wastewater treatment as slime control, 
  • Commercial sector for swimming pool water disinfection and hygienic sanitation 
Methylene Chloride

Methylene chloride, also called dichloromethane, is a volatile, colorless liquid with a chloroform-like odour. Methylene chloride is used in various industrial processes, in many different industries including paint stripping, pharmaceutical manufacturing, paint remover manufacturing, and metal cleaning and degreasing.

Chloroform

Chloroform is an important commercial chemical. It is mainly used in the production of liquid refrigerants and PTFE plastics. It is used as a solvent, chemical intermediate, dry cleaning agent, fumigant ingredient and in synthetic rubber production. In the past, chloroform was used as an anaesthetic.

Carbon Tetrachloride

Carbon Tetrachloride (CTC) is listed Schedule - 1 Ozone Depletion Substance. CTC is used as Feedstock (Consumed in production) for production of intermediates which are used for synthesis of synthetic Pyrethroid insecticides, as a solvent and to make other chemicals. Carbon tetrachloride was once very widely used as a dry cleaning agent, and as a fire extinguisher. 

Calcium Chloride (94% Purity)

Calcium Chloride is an ionic halide which is solid at room temperature. We manufacture Calcium chloride by reacting Limestone and Hydrochloric acid in our ISO-certified plant, thus consistently assuring the best quality.

 

Applications: Oil and gas Industry, Defrosting and De-icing, Dust Protection, Concrete additive, Desiccant, Plastic additive, Dehydration of used oils and alcohols, De-inking agent in paper recycling

Aluminium Chlorohydrate

Aluminium Chlorohydrate is clear in appearance and is a slightly viscous liquid. It exhibits higher performance at a lower dosage than other conventional coagulants and results in negligible residual aluminium in the treated water.

It is recommended as a cationic coagulant for removal of colloidal dissolved/ suspended impurities & clarification of water and wastewater. Industrial application may include coagulation of natural impurity/ pollutant, coagulation of anionic colloidal impurities & dyes, sludge dewatering etc.

 

 

Base Chemistries

Caustic Soda Lye & Flakes

The Caustic Soda Flakes are also known as Sodium Hydroxide. Our products are devoid of any foreign matter, dirt, or other visible impurities. The varied range of applications for both caustic soda lye and flakes include production of pulp and paper, soaps, detergents, viscose fibre, zeolites, food additives, textile processing, organic chemicals like dyes, and inorganic chemicals like sulphites, phosphites and in aluminium refineries.

Base Chemistries

Chlorine

It is widely used to treat water as well as in the manufacture of Sodium Hypochlorite, Calcium Hypochlorite, Poly vinyl Chloride, Isocyanates, Polycarbonate, Chloromethanes, Perchloroethane,  Phosgene, Ferric chloride, Epichlorohydrin, Poly aluminium chloride, Silicon dioxide (aerosol), and Chlorinated paraffin

Base Chemistries

Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a by product released during the production of caustic soda. The gas is then treated, and compressed to be used in hydrogenation of edible oils for making Vanaspati and non-edible oils for making soaps, hydrogenation of petro-products for making hard lubricants, sintering in the making of tungsten carbide tool bits and in powder metallurgy, underwater gas cutting and plasma cutting, rocket propulsion, and the production of hydrogen peroxide.

Base Chemistries

Hydrochloric Acid

Food grade hydrochloric acid is used in the production of food ingredients, food additives, and in the sugar and brewery industries. Industrial grade HCl is used for other purposes, like petroleum refining and leather treatment. Also known as hydrogen chloride or muriatic acid, HCl has a variety of applications including production of Monosodium Glutamate, Glutamic Acid, Phosgene, floor cleaning products and dyes, and in latex coagulation, metal pickling, petroleum refineries, leather industry, sugar refining, breweries, galvanizing and water treatment.

Base Chemistries

Sodium Hypochlorite

Also known as chlorine bleach or soda bleach, sodium hypochlorite works as a great steriliser, decolouring agent, oxidiser, germicide, fungicide, and deodorant. It is also used as a bleaching agent for rayon pulp, paper, cotton, linen, and jute, a household bleach for fly control, water treatment, and pool chlorination and as a disinfectant and deodorant in dairies.

Chlorine Derivatives

Chlorinated Paraffins (CP)

As a trusted chemicals supplier, we offer chlorinated paraffin under the brand names of Aryafin and Kanofin. CPs are complex mixtures of chlorinated n-alkanes containing thousands of homologues and isomers. They find use as flame retardants and plasticizers, as additives in metalworking fluids, in sealants, paints, adhesives, textiles, leather fat and coatings.

Aryafin CP belongs to a group of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons having straight chain lengths (Cn H 2n+2) with Carbon number from C10 onwards. Produced by the controlled chlorination of carefully selected paraffins of required chain lengths, we offer various grades having Chlorine content varying from 30% to 72%.

Chlorine Derivatives

Polyaluminium Chloride

Polyaluminium chloride (PAC) provides faster flocculation and stronger flocs than alum across many applications. One of the common poly aluminium chloride uses is linked to water purification. PAC is manufactured in both liquid and powder form. The product is used in deodorants and antiperspirants, as a flocculant in water purification, in treatment of drinking/potable water, wastewater treatment and paper sizing. We offer this product basket under Vikram brand name as a coagulation and flocculation expert.

PAC is supplied in form of water solution or as powder, which facilitates the transport and storage operations and subsequent dosage of the reagent. We have developed the know-how and technologies for production plants of the following grades of PAC:

  • PAC 18%
  • Mid-basicity liquid PAC, containing 17.5 ± 0.5% Al2O3, specific for waste waters and neutral sizing in papermaking. It is used as a primary coagulant aid for any clarifying/ flocculation process relating to the treatment of surface or underground water and urban or industrial effluents. PAC 18 is based on highly charged aluminium which results in lower dosage and therefore reduces sludge volume and pH adjustment demand. It also improves solids and/or phosphorous removal over conventional coagulants.
  • PAC 9% HB
  • High-basicity liquid PAC, containing 9 ± 0.5% Al2O3, specific for potable waters. PAC 9 is based on highly charged aluminium which results in lower dosage and therefore reduces sludge volume and pH adjustment demand. It also improves solids and/or phosphorous removal over conventional coagulants.
  • PAC 30%
  • Mid-basicity powder form, containing 30 ± 0.5% Al2O3

 

 

 

Chlorine Derivatives

Phosphoric Acid

Phosphoric acid (also known as orthophosphoric acid or phosphoric acid) is a mineral (inorganic) acid having the chemical formula H3PO4. Dilute aqueous solutions of phosphoric acid exist in the ortho form. As a leading phosphoric acid manufacturer, we believe in the value of our product, since it finds varied applications in pretreatment chemicals for metal surfaces, detergents and cleaners, sugar refining, phosphates, edible oils, colas, bakery, cheese, pharmaceuticals, yeast formation, etc.

Phosphoric is used in the making of perfumes in the home and personal care industry. Food grade phosphoric acid is used as an acidulant and flavouring agent in the carbonated beverage industry, as an emulsifier into fats and oils, as a degumming agent for vegetable oils and sugar and as an acidulant for baking powder and emulsifying salts for cheese. In addition to being a chemical reagent, phosphoric acid has a wide variety of uses, including as a rust converter, food additive, dental and orthopaedic etchant, electrolyte, soldering flux, dispersing agent, industrial etchant, fertilizer feedstock, and a component of home cleaning products

Chlorine Derivatives

Stable Bleaching Powder

Produced using hydrated lime and chlorine, our offering of the Grasim stable bleaching powder is used as a disinfectant in water treatment and also in the textiles, pulp and paper, and carpet industries. The critical aspect is the active chlorine content in the stable bleaching that finds usage across applications in the aquaculture industry as a disinfectant, in-home and personal care as a whitener, in the paper and pulp industry and textiles as a bleach and extensively in water purification. It is also used in swimming pools as a disinfectant and cleaning agent, apart from controlling algae.

Chlorine Derivatives

Aluminium Chloride

Anhydrous aluminium chloride is a principal catalyst used in the Friedel-Crafts reaction, both acylations and alkylations. The product also finds application in the manufacture of Ibuprofen and other bulk drugs, ethyl benzene, isopropyl benzene, titanium dioxide, hydrocarbon resins, terpene resins and polybutenes. 

Various organic and inorganic chemicals including ethyl benzene, isopropyl benzene and titanium dioxide are made using aluminium chloride anhydrous. Aluminium chloride anhydrous is used to manufacture various drug intermediates. Through its use in the Friedel-Crafts reaction, aluminium chloride anhydrous helps in the manufacture of dyestuffs.

Chlorine Derivatives

High Strength Bleaching Powder

Available in form of free flowing white granules with 65-70 % available chlorine, it is used in effective disinfection of water. It helps to eliminate bacteria, viruses and waterborne diseases. It is a strong oxidizing agent which acts as bactericide and fungicide. It is used in  

  • Municipal sector for potable water disinfection, 
  • Industrial sector for algae control for cooling tower, process water disinfection, effluent and wastewater treatment as slime control, 
  • Commercial sector for swimming pool water disinfection and hygienic sanitation 

Chlorine Derivatives

Methylene Chloride

Methylene chloride, also called dichloromethane, is a volatile, colorless liquid with a chloroform-like odour. Methylene chloride is used in various industrial processes, in many different industries including paint stripping, pharmaceutical manufacturing, paint remover manufacturing, and metal cleaning and degreasing.

Chlorine Derivatives

Chloroform

Chloroform is an important commercial chemical. It is mainly used in the production of liquid refrigerants and PTFE plastics. It is used as a solvent, chemical intermediate, dry cleaning agent, fumigant ingredient and in synthetic rubber production. In the past, chloroform was used as an anaesthetic.

Chlorine Derivatives

Carbon Tetrachloride

Carbon Tetrachloride (CTC) is listed Schedule - 1 Ozone Depletion Substance. CTC is used as Feedstock (Consumed in production) for production of intermediates which are used for synthesis of synthetic Pyrethroid insecticides, as a solvent and to make other chemicals. Carbon tetrachloride was once very widely used as a dry cleaning agent, and as a fire extinguisher. 

Chlorine Derivatives

Calcium Chloride (94% Purity)

Calcium Chloride is an ionic halide which is solid at room temperature. We manufacture Calcium chloride by reacting Limestone and Hydrochloric acid in our ISO-certified plant, thus consistently assuring the best quality.

 

Applications: Oil and gas Industry, Defrosting and De-icing, Dust Protection, Concrete additive, Desiccant, Plastic additive, Dehydration of used oils and alcohols, De-inking agent in paper recycling

Chlorine Derivatives

Aluminium Chlorohydrate

Aluminium Chlorohydrate is clear in appearance and is a slightly viscous liquid. It exhibits higher performance at a lower dosage than other conventional coagulants and results in negligible residual aluminium in the treated water.

It is recommended as a cationic coagulant for removal of colloidal dissolved/ suspended impurities & clarification of water and wastewater. Industrial application may include coagulation of natural impurity/ pollutant, coagulation of anionic colloidal impurities & dyes, sludge dewatering etc.

 

 

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