Uses

- Phenol resin manufacture in the plastic industry.

- Manufacture of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides.

- Manufacture of colorings in the chemical industry.

- Preservative and ingredient in adhesives, jellies and synthetic gums (latex rubber, butadiene)

- Selective solvent for lubricant oils refining.

- All purpose disinfectant; biocide. It is used in cosmetics, dentistry and in the wine industry.

- Constituent part of germicide paints and wood impregnating agents.

- Organic synthesis reagent: salicylic acid, phenolphthalein, picric acid, organic anhydrides, benzene, chlorophenols, cyclohexanol and several pharmacological drugs.

- It is used in the production of cellulose colloidal suspensions.

- Protein dispersant agent.

- Raw material in the production of synthetic tannins.

- Reagent in the manufacture of explosives and pyrotechnical materials.

- Ingredient of several types of inks: lithographic, mimeographic, printing.

- In the metallurgic industry, as scrap tin agent and ingredient in solutions for iron and steel tinning and cleaning.

- Flotation agent in mining.

- It is used in the manufacture of developers in the photographic industry.

- In the textile industry, for the processes of: silk staining, degumming and waterproofing, and cloth mercerizing and printing.