Multi-country Manufacturing Groups
Factories and production networks operating across multiple countries.
Typical Companies
Ceramic groupsRegional factory networks
Common Regions
AfricaSoutheast AsiaSouth AsiaLatin America
Industry Applications
How sodium metasilicate supports detergent, ceramics, water treatment, textile, paper, and industrial formulation applications.
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Sodium Metasilicate for the Detergent Industry
Detergent manufacturers use sodium metasilicate in powder and institutional cleaning formulations where alkalinity, particle form, color, iron content, and dissolution behavior affect production performance.
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Sodium Metasilicate for Ceramic Slurry & Casting Bodies
Ceramic plants use sodium metasilicate in tile-body, casting and glaze slurry where controlled alkalinity and electrolyte behaviour support slip stability, including the ball mill and the slip that is spray-dried on a tile line. Grade selection follows water content, dosing method and iron level — not a generic ceramics catalogue name.
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Sodium Metasilicate for Water Treatment
Water treatment chemical producers use sodium metasilicate in pH adjustment blends, equipment cleaning formulations, and multi-component treatment packages.
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Sodium Metasilicate for the Textile Industry
Textile processors use sodium metasilicate in scouring, bleaching auxiliaries, and fabric preparation chemicals where controlled alkalinity supports fiber cleaning and processing.
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Sodium Metasilicate for the Paper Industry
Paper and pulp operations use sodium metasilicate as an alkaline processing aid in deinking, pulping auxiliaries, and equipment cleaning formulations within the mill chemical program.
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Sodium Metasilicate for Chemical Distributors
Chemical distributors buy on a different basis from end users. Where a manufacturer qualifies one grade for one process, a distributor has to resell across many customers — which makes batch-to-batch consistency, packaging flexibility, document completeness and reliable lead times more important than the headline unit price. Sodium metasilicate for distribution and repacking is supplied as described below. Confirm the points at the RFQ stage so a container can be resold without requalification problems downstream.
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Sodium Metasilicate for Industrial Cleaning Builders
Formulators of heavy-duty degreasers, bottle-wash chemicals and institutional cleaning products use sodium metasilicate as the alkaline builder that carries buffering capacity into the wash. What decides the grade is rarely purity alone — it is the soil being removed, the working temperature and concentration, how fast the material has to dissolve at the mixing tank, and how much dust the plant will tolerate at the charging point.
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Sodium Metasilicate for Alkaline Metal Degreasing
Producers of alkaline degreasers and metal pretreatment chemicals qualify a silicate slowly and then buy it for years. The reason is that the bath sits upstream of plating, phosphating or painting, so anything the raw material brings with it — iron, insoluble matter, an out-of-range particle size — surfaces later as a rinse residue or a coating defect. Qualification covers what has to be confirmed before a grade is proposed, and where the limits of what we will claim actually sit.
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Sodium Silicate Powder for Concrete & Construction
Construction-chemical formulators use a solid silicate in densifiers, floor hardeners, waterproofing blends and soil-stabilisation mixes. The plant confirms ratio and concentration in its own mix.
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Sodium Silicate Powder for Drilling Fluids
Water-based drilling-fluid formulators specify a solid silicate for the mud program. The mud system and the grade are stated together on the RFQ.
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Instant Sodium Silicate Powder for Foundry Binders
Foundries that bind moulding and core sand name the instant powder grade and the cure route — CO₂ gassing or ester self-set — before a quotation.
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Chemical Distributors & Importers
Regional importers, distributors and chemical supply companies.
Typical Companies
TradersStockistsWholesalers
Common Regions
North AmericaLatin AmericaAsiaAfricaEurope
Industrial Manufacturers & End Users
Factories buying directly for their own production processes.
Typical Companies
Industrial plantsFormulation factories
Common Regions
AsiaLatin AmericaNorth AmericaEurope
Ceramics & Building Materials Producers
Ceramic, tile and building-material manufacturers.
Typical Companies
Ceramic plantsTile manufacturers
Common Regions
AfricaSouth AsiaSoutheast AsiaLatin America
Mining & Industrial Processing Companies
Mining, underground engineering and mineral-processing buyers.
Typical Companies
Mining operatorsProcessing plants
Common Regions
AfricaLatin AmericaNorth AmericaCentral Asia
Detergent & Cleaning Product Manufacturers
Manufacturers of detergent, institutional cleaning and daily chemical products.
Typical Companies
Detergent factoriesCleaning formulators
Common Regions
South AsiaSoutheast AsiaMiddle EastAfricaLatin America
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Downstream Application Fields
Application fields and product properties transcribed from the factory product showroom.
Where Sodium Metasilicate Is Used
- Detergents, industrial cleaning agents and metal surface treatment
- Cotton textile scouring and bleaching (pre-treatment)
- Pulp and paper deinking / bleaching aids
- Ceramic grinding aids and concrete water-reducing admixtures
- Refractory agents and plasticity / water-retention aids
- Mineral oil recovery
- Dispersants and quick-drying aids for construction and metallurgy
- Oilfield drilling aids
- Water treatment
Sodium Metasilicate Pentahydrate / 五水偏硅酸钠
Formula: Na₂SiO₃·5H₂O|Appearance: White granules or powder (crystalline)
- Na₂O 28–30% · SiO₂ 28–30%
- Melting point typical 72–73°C
- Bulk density 0.85–1.00 g/cm³
Anhydrous Sodium Metasilicate / 无水（零水）偏硅酸钠
Formula: Na₂SiO₃|Appearance: White granules or powder
- Na₂O 50.0–51.5% · SiO₂ 45.0–48.0%
- Dry matter 95.0–98.5%
- Bulk density 1.05–1.35 g/cm³