General industry

General Industry covers a broad range of products that are used in different industries.

• Deicing of airport runways, providing safe travel also in winter time, is done mostly with potassium formate in Europe 
• Potassium silicate produced from KOH and K₂CO₃ acts as a binder and a fluxing agent in welding rods
• Potassium phosphates produced from KOH are used in a.o. the textile industry, metal surface treatment, paper processing and water treatment
• In specialty glass, K₂CO₃ provides improved properties of greater electrical resistivity, higher refraction index, greater brilliance, lower softening point and a wide temperature working range