Inorganic acids

Inorganic acids comprise a broad portfolio of products used in numerous industrial, pharmaceutical and agrochemical applications. Quality, reliability, safety, optimum logistics and expert services are our priorities in supplying our customers.

 

Hydrogen fluoride (HF), also known as “hydrofluoric acid”, is one of the basic raw materials for a wide variety of both commercial and industrial products. HF is produced by reacting the naturally occurring mineral fluorspar with sulphuric acid. LANXESS offers anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF) as well as various concentrations of aqueous hydrofluoric acid solutions.

Further information about LANXESS’ production of hydrogen fluoride and its various applications you will find here shortly.

 

Hydrazine hydrate is used on a large scale in the synthesis of agrochemicals, polymers, electronic chemicals, pharmaceutical active ingredients, reducing agents in various application fields and other organic derivatives. In addition, hydrazine hydrate plays an important role as a corrosion inhibitor in power plant water circuits. For these water treatment applications LANXESS offers Levoxin^® (activated hydrazine hydrate).

 

Our portfolio of sulphur chlorides comprises thionyl chloride, sulphuryl chloride, sulphur monochloride and sulphur dichloride. Thionyl chloride is a major inorganic intermediate used in the chemical industry for the synthesis of acid chlorides, sulfonyl chlorides and alkyl chlorides. These substance classes are frequently used as intermediates for the preparation of agrochemicals, dyestuffs and pharmaceutical active ingredients. In order to guarantee for reliability of deliveries worldwide LANXESS is running two state-of-the-art facilities for thionyl chloride, one in Germany and another in India. Further information you will find _here.

 

 

High-purity sulphuric acid and fuming sulphuric acid (oleum) are produced in state-of-the-art double-contact units. As specialties we offer chemically pure sulphuric acid based on sulphur trioxide for uses in the pharmaceutical and electronics industry and fluorosulfonic acid as fluorinating agent. The production of starch, sugar, paper and various chemicals as well as waste water treatment are key applications of sodium bisulfite solution we manufacture as a downstream product of sulphur dioxide.