SPIC Silica

Listing ID #3775290

Get Latest Price

Supply Type Manufacturer, Exporter, Supplier
Preferred Buyer Location All over the world

SPIC Silica Silica, also known as Silicon dioxide (from the Latin silex), is a chemical compound that is a dioxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2. It has been known since ancient....

View More Details

Send Enquiry

Product Details

SPIC Silica

Silica, also known as Silicon dioxide (from the Latin silex), is a chemical compound that is a dioxide of silicon with the chemical formula SiO2. It has been known since ancient times.

Product Description

Silica is most commonly found in nature as quartz, as well as in various living organisms. Silica is one of the most complex and most abundant families of materials, existing both as several minerals and being produced synthetically.

In the chemical industry, Silica is also used as a filter aid in phosphoric acid plants to improve recovery efficiency. The Greenstar process involves reaction of Aluminium Hydroxide with Hydro Fluosilicic acid followed by filtration to recover silica.

Major customers include the Vedanta Resources group and the Coromandel companies.

Product Specifications

Property	Unit	Standard purity
Product colour		White
Bulk Density	g/cc	0.50 Max
Free Moisture	% WW	40-50%
Analysis on Dry basis
Bulk Density	% WW	80% Min
Bulk Density	% WW	5 % Max

Company Details

Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation (SPIC) Limited is one of the leading fertilizer manufacturing companies in the country located at Thoothukudi in the State of Tamil Nadu. It is a joint venture founded by Dr M A Chidambaram and Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Limited (TIDCO), a state-owned industrial development institution.
SPIC is one of the earliest units set up in the country with a vision to produce high quality fertilizers to improve the agricultural output of the country. SPIC’s large fertilizer complex is capable of producing 6.2 lakh tons of Neem Coated Urea. SPIC is a household name within the farming community due to its ability to enrich the soil consistently throughout the agricultural cycle with maximum nutrient use efficiency. SPIC products not only help to sustain the health of the soil but also act as environment-friendly catalysts to increase the productivity to meet the food demand of the nation.