Textiles & consumer goods

Tata Chemicals, one of the world's largest producers of soda ash, is a major supplier of soda ash and sodium bicarbonate to the textile and leather industries.

Light soda ash is used in dyeing cotton and other cellulose fibres such as linen, rayon, tencel or hemp, to increase the pH (alkalinity) of the reaction making the dye react with the fibre, creating a permanent attachment that holds the dye to the fibre.

We provide the highest quality of sodium bicarbonate (technical and refined grades), which is considered ideal by professionals for curing wool and silk fibre.

Sodium bicarbonate is also used for tanning in the leather industry to preserve animal hides or skins.