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Formic Acid
Combining excellent efficiency with high environmental compatibility, formic acid scores high in countless applications.
Bees, airline passengers, oil rig operators and pigs don’t have much in common but there’s one thing they share: they all benefit from formic acid.
BASF is a leading global supplier of Formic Acid with production facilities in Europe (Germany), Asia (China) and North America (USA)
This acidic all-rounder is the stuff innovations are made of. It is appreciated in a great variety of applications.
Formic acid has applications in these areas:
In bathroom cleaners, for example, formic acid combines the properties of an efficient descaling agent with those of a biodegradable biocide.
BASF sells formic acid as a biocide in Europe under the Protectol® FM brand. BASF has submitted a comprehensive file for registering formic acid as a biocide according to the European Biocidal Product Directive (BPD).
Formic acid has applications in these areas:
Formic Acid is used in textile processing to control the pH of waste-water
(neutralization of the pH and the excess NaOH from manufacturing process).
Formic acid is used in several steps of leather processing. Methods for processing leather involve steps of preparing skins for tanning, optionally dyeing the leather and finishing if required.
One of the traditional uses of formic acid is the coagulation of natural rubber, which is produced primarily in south-east Asia. Latex milk is tapped from rubber trees and is mixed with formic acid to produce the coagulated rubber that is further processed into tires and numerous other rubber products.
Formic acid is also a valuable building block for formate salts. These salts are used in drilling fluids and deicing agents.