Calcium Hydroxide / Hydrated Lime / Slaked Lime
Formula : Ca(OH)2
Hydrated lime better known as Calcium Hydroxide or Slaked Lime. Hydrated lime is produced by adding just enough water to quicklime to react and form Calcium Hydroxide, a dry free flowing powder product.
RMCL's Calcium Hydroxide/hydrated Lime come with purity ranging from 70% to 98%+. Our Hydrated Lime is pure and of top notch quality and we can easily meet with Client Company's quantity & quality demands. We are one of the very few in India in this continent who customizes 98% purity of product.
Key Highlights
- Custom Options – Available in different grades and particle sizes to suit specific client needs.
- Dependable Quality – Derived from premium quicklime, ensuring long-term reliability and stability.
- High Purity – Produced with purity levels above 95% for consistent performance.
- Wide Applications – Extensively used in water treatment, construction, food, paper, and chemical industries.
Core Applications
Calcium Hydroxide is a trusted material in industries worldwide due to its reactivity and versatility:
- Agriculture Industry: Used as a natural "Alternative" insecticide.
- Beverages Industry: Used for processing water for alcoholic beverages, soft drinks and used to fortify fruit drinks such as Tropicana Calcium + Vitamin D orange juice.
- Chemical Industry: A raw material for calcium salts, petrochemicals, and other compounds & for manufacturing calcium stearate.
- Cosmetics: For haircare it is used as a lye substitute in no-lye hair relaxers.
- Environmental Management: Neutralizing acidic soils, flue gas treatment, and waste control & Effluent Treatment.
- Food Industry: Serves as a firming agent, aids in sugar refining, and supports pickling processes.
- Metals Industries: Used as an acid suppressor in the production of metals.
- Oral-care: To fill the root canal for the first stage of endodontic therapy.
- Pharmaceuticals: In manufacture of Ca based Pharmaceutical Products and bone-regeneration stimulant.
- Waste Management: Used for sewage treatment and neutralizing hazardous waste.
- Water Treatment: Removes impurities, softens water, and neutralizes acidity.
Extended Applications
Beyond core industries, Calcium Hydroxide has specialized uses, including:
- Automobiles Industry: Used in manufacturing of brake pads.
- Construction: Used in mortar, plaster, whitewash, and soil stabilization.
- Fertilizer Industry: In Fertilizer Bordeaux mixture to neutralize the solution and form a long lasting fungicide.
- Iron and Steel Industries: Used for making Slag.
- Leather Industry: Essential in the tanning process for preparing hides.
- Life Support Systems: As a carbon dioxide scrubber.
- Paints & Coatings: Acts as a stabilizer and pH regulator in surface treatments.
- Paper Industry: Plays a vital role in bleaching and pH control.
- Petroleum: Applied as a neutralizer in refining and petrochemicals.
- Refineries: In the petroleum refining industry for the manufacture of additives to oils.
- Tobacco Industry: Used in making naswar (also known as nass or niswar) a type of dipping tobacco.
