The Chemical division of Thermax Limited manufactures and markets a wide range of specialty chemicals to help improve processes and product performance. Thermax’s Chemical Division is a leading global manufacturer of Tulsion® brand Ion exchange resins, water treatment chemicals, fire side chemicals, fuel additives, oil field chemicals, paper chemicals and construction chemicals catering to a spectrum of more than 5000 customers across 40 industry sectors. With more than 30 years of rich experience, the Ion exchange resin business unit serves customers across the globe by offering most efficient and economical solutions in a wide range of end use applications.
Water treatment is traditionally one of the largest application in the field of ion exchange resins. Though Thermax supplies resins against the required specifications, we believe more in developing and offering customer and site specific solutions in the form of a total package. Such offerings, being most efficient and economical, gives more value for money to the customers. To date, a number of customers seeking solutions to industrial, municipal, domestic and waste water related problems have benefited with Thermax products and services. Thermax offers a complete range of products for applications such as softening, demineralization, dealkalization and condensate polishing. For high purity water requirements, especially in the semiconductor, food and nuclear industry, Thermax offers a wide range of ready to use, mixed bed resins.
Selective removal of metal ions from a variety of solutions has become an important application in the recent times due to regulatory as well as economic aspects. Metal Selective chelating resins are widely used for such applications. Metals such as mercury and lead are removed from water and other solutions for statutory reasons whereas gold, platinum and palladium are recovered for their value. Selectivity of the functional group for target metal ions is the most important property of a chelating resin and different functional groups are needed for removal or recycle of different target metals. Almost all of the chelating resins are regenerable and can be used for multiple cycles. In case of non-regenerable resin, loaded metal can be recovered by incineration of the exhausted resin. Thermax Limited has a wide range of chelating ion exchange resins for metal recovery, such as gold, mercury, platinum, palladium, copper, calcium, magnesium and strontium.
Thermax has exclusively developedand supplied many resin based products for various biotech applications such as extraction of enzymes from broth solution, purification of antibiotics, support for peptide synthesis and anchoring for cell culture development. All these resins were developed by working closely with the end users and customized to suit specific customer and process requirement.