For over a century, the chemical energy delivered by calcium carbide has powered industrial innovation, making it a vital raw material for a diverse range of basic industry needs. Calcium Carbide is the premier slag-conditioning and desulfurizing agent for iron and steel; carbide produces acetylene gas - a precursor to many specialty chemicals and is a valuable tool for construction; and carbide is crucial in cleaning pollutants from our environment. Carbide Industries' capabilities deliver bottom line results through higher efficiency processes, higher quality product, and improved return on investment.

At CI, calcium carbide is all we do. We produce it in the largest, newest, and most advanced carbide furnace in this hemisphere, and then crush it to specific size ranges. This is a basic and proven process, but we continue to grow as steelmakers seek lower costs and cleaner steel and as we find more useful ways to exploit the energy delivered from calcium carbide.