Is mainly light industry, building materials, chemical industry,
accounting for about 2 / 3; metallurgy, textile, petroleum,
national defense, medicine and other industries. Glass soda ash
industry is the largest consuming sector. The chemical industry for
the system of sodium silicate, sodium dichromate, sodium nitrate,
sodium fluoride, baking soda, borax and so on. The metallurgical
industry as a smelting flux, ore dressing and flotation, steel, and
antimony used as a desulfurization agent. Printing and dyeing
industry as a water softener. Leather tanning industry for the
degreasing of raw materials, and in chrome-tanned leather and
improve the degree of chrome tanning liquid caustic soda.
Edible Soda: used to produce monosodium glutamate, pasta, etc.
