Biodegradable Chelating Agents

Chelating agents are widely used in many industrial, domestic, and agriculture applications due to their ability to complex metals. Over the last decades, they have been used in several applications, however, the fact that they are not biodegradable leads to the presence of considerable amounts in aquatic systems, with serious environmental consequences. The replacement of these compounds by biodegradable alternatives has been the need of today.

We offer wide range of biodegradable chelants including GLDA, HEIDA etc. These biodegradable molecules contain amino methylene carboxylates and are able to form complexes with various metal/non-metal ions. This phenomenon is called chelating. Forming of stable complexes with metal ions is the base of their application for industrial purposes. The complexes formed due to chelation are dissolved in water, and metal ions found in them do not exhibit such chemical activity as uncomplexed ions. Because of the importance of chelating agents, they are produced and used in large quantities and their behaviour as well as their effect on the environment has received considerable attention.

These biodegradable chelants have wide application in Detergents, Industrial Cleaning, Food Processing, Personal Care, Kitchen Cleaning, textiles, water treatment, Automatic Dishwashing and in pulp & paper.