Article: Reportlinker Adds World Industrial & Caustic Potash Market Report.

Dictionary definition: potassium hydroxide
A Dictionary of Chemistry;      341 words ...potassium hydroxide ( caustic potash ; lye ) A white deliquescent solid, KOH, often sold as ... salts, and in Ni–Fe and alkaline storage cells. Potassium hydroxide is extremely corrosive to body tissues and especially damaging ...

Article: KOH Hike.(anhydrous potassium hydroxide)(Brief ...
Chemical Week;  March 24, 1999 ;     464 words ... ... Ashtabula, OH) announced last week that it is increasing the prices of liquid and anhydrous potassium hydroxide (KOH), or caustic potash, effective immediately for spot customers and as contracts permit. Ashta is raising liquid KOH ...

Article: Chloralkali production cleans up its act. (ICI membrane ...
Process Engineering;  June 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... its act ICI has started-up a new potassium hydroxide plant. Steve Brown takes a look ... built a new 75 000 tonnes per year potassium hydroxide plant at the Castner-Kellner site ... Chemicals and Polymers described potassium hydroxide as `not glamorous, but a basic ...

Article: Vulcan Expands KOH.(VULCAN CHEMICALS ; potassium ...
Chemical Market Reporter;  December 14, 1998 ;     508 words ... ... capital investment to raise the potassium hydroxide capacity of its Port Edwards ... produces caustic soda and caustic potash. The additional capacity ... Vulcan says. "We see potassium hydroxide as a growth market and are ...

Article: CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RESPONDS TO ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 29, 2006 ;     421 words ... ... and spilled 300 gallons of potassium hydroxide solution onto the highway ... complete. The DEP is on scene. Potassium hydroxide is a major industrial chemical ... form, sometimes known as caustic potash or potash lye, the chemical ...

Article: Caustic Potash Producers Move Ahead on Expansions.
Chemical Market Reporter;  December 21, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... exports. THE MARKET FOR caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) remains stable. Demand ... by the leading uses of caustic potash, particularly the manufacture ... Producers expect the demand for caustic potash to grow, and Vulcan Chemicals ...

Article: Caustic Potash Producers Seek Price Increase as ...
Chemical Market Reporter;  December 20, 1999 ;     700+ words ...THE MARKET for caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) has tightened in the past ... Producers say the demand for caustic potash has been growing by as much ... continent. Japanese demand for caustic potash was also off considerably ...