Arkema is the world's second biggest producer of hydrazine hydrate. This product and its derivatives are widely used in many industrial applications: chemicals, pharmaceutical products, agrochemistry, water treatment, photography, etc.

Hydrazine hydrate is a highly effective reducing agent used:

In the synthesis of:

• Blowing agents: azodicarbonamide
• Bio-active intermediates for agrochemical and pharmaceutical products, via Triazoles
• Various products: certain organic pigments for dyes, reagents for photography, urethanes and acrylics, hydrobromic acid, etc.
  

Directly as:

• An anticorrosion additive in the water circuits of thermal and nuclear plants.
• An oxygen scavenger in the water of industrial boilers and high pressure steam generators.

In the:

• Refining of precious metals
• Recovery of metals from pickling and surface treatment solutions
• Treatment of liquid and gas wastes
• Purification of sulfuric acid for grades used on the electronics market
• Metallisation of plastics and metals (nickel, cobalt, iron, chromium, etc.)
• Formulation of rocket fuels (Ariane 4)
• In the Actired® process used mainly in gold mines.

Arkema offers an hydrazine hydrate with an exceptional degree of purity:

• Extremely low chloride content
• Low total organic carbon content
• Few mineral residues and metallic impurities

A bifunctional and nucleophile base, hydrazine hydrate is used to obtain many derivatives including:

• Liozan^®: this anticorrosion product provides faster oxygen scavenging and offers the possibility of working at lower temperatures
• Hydrazine salts: 3 products, mainly used as synthesis intermediates (especially in the pharmaceuticals industry)
• Triazoles: 1,2,4 Triazole / 1,2,4 Triazole Sodium Salt / 4 Amino 1,2,4 Triazole / 3 Amino 1,2,4 Triazole
• Aminoguanidine bicarbonate
• New polymerization initiators such as our liquid azo