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UNLEASHING THE ENERGY WITHIN CALCIUM CARBIDE

Carbide Industries utilizes the chemical energy delivered by calcium carbide powers innovation, making it a vital material across a wide range of industries.

Calcium carbide is more than a chemical—it’s a powerhouse of energy driving progress across industries. From enhancing industrial efficiency to enabling ground breaking innovations, it remains a cornerstone of modern advancement.

When calcium carbide reacts with water, it produces acetylene gas and calcium
hydroxide. The acetylene gas can then be reacted with other compounds to create acetylene derivatives such as butadiene, acetone, and vinyl polymers.
Carbide Industries brings decades of experience to these complex reactions. Precise control of temperature, pressure, and catalysts to ensure efficiency and desired product quality.

Consumer Products

Acetylene derivatives are found in everyday consumer products including hairspray, cosmetics, medications, lotions and toothpaste.

Acetylene intermediates play a crucial role in the production of fibers, rubbers, solvents and refrigerants.

When combined with oxygen in an oxyacetylene torch, acetylene produces an extremely hot flame, reaching temperatures exceeding 6,000 ºF (3,315 ºC).

This high-temperature flame is ideal for welding, cutting, brazing and soldering metals.

Industrial Gas

Consumer Products

Calcium hydroxide is essential in responsible industrial processes, removing sulfur dioxide from fossil-fuel plant emissions, neutralizing pickling acids, and treating industrial waste and sewage.

DELIVERY

Acetylene can be delivered via pipeline direct to a manufacturing facility or through large national distributors of industrial gases. Your sales representative will work with you to find the right solution for your location.

Calcium hydroxide is available in both dry and slurry forms and is shipped directly in a can, drum or in bulk.

SAFETY & TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Contact your sales representative to learn about our safety training program for the safe handling, storage and use of our products. Technical support is also available for acetylene generation and calcium hydroxide use.

QUALITY CONTROL

An on-site laboratory and team of experts test our products before shipping. Time-tested procedures are in place to control our processes and to certify shipments. In addition, there are systems in place for handling any customer-found issues.

Outside testing firms, when necessary, can provide scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive x-ray analysis, gas chromatography and infrared spectroscopy for those times when closer investigation is needed.