Three Considerations In Chemical Use

Selling a variety of chemicals for various industrial uses involves understanding why people have to mix these elements into food and other products.

Knowing more about why people source these items allows us to serve our customer base better over time.

Here are some things to keep in mind while you're shopping for carefully formulated elements and ingredients for your business. We have the quality chemical additives and elements that will provide the right supply chain for a client’s success, in a chaotic world where sourcing nearly anything can become difficult.

PH Value

Many of these chemicals work to adjust the pH value of a formulation. Mixtures represent a scale from an acid to a base, and some of this involves how they will be used in a particular context. For example, more acidic components can be used in products like cleaners, but can also cause certain types of corrosion.

PH values one of those metrics that can be easily tested in a lab or in some sort of production environment. Chemicals can provide the necessary adjustments, as the company works to keep everything effective, safe and of the highest value to customers.

Water Hardness

When it comes to adjusting water hardness or softness, the chemical equation is somewhat simple. Salt or sodium chloride is effective in ion treatment of hard water with an excess of calcium. The filtration system turns that calcium into sodium chemically.

Similar systems use chemical additives to achieve these kinds of chemical change for product development, or to facilitate different types of industrial processes.

Chemicals and Food Production

Here's one that is slightly different – the use of citric acid in a variety of products.

Originally, citrus fruit itself delivered citric acid in a natural way. But over time, scientists figured out how to use make citric acid in other ways to meet growing demand. Now Citric Acid is primariy made to meet the high demand  exclusively by fermentation of filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger. The industrial production is performed using carbohydrates and residue from agricultural products as the substrates by three different type processes: solid, submerged and surface fermentations. 

This is one prime example of the chemical uses of additives, and citric acid is widely useful in a vast array of products. Look for more in internal resources on why these chemicals are so useful in production scenarios.

For more on all of your chemical needs, take a look at the Level 7 website. We strive to provide quality to our business customers, and with a dedication to customer service and speedy delivery, we help to make customized production possible. Learn more and get connected with a firm that has your best interests in mind.