Product Overview

• EDTA, or Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid, is a widely used synthetic aminopolycarboxylic acid recognized as one of the most effective and versatile chelating agents in industrial and consumer chemistry. It appears as a white, crystalline, odorless powder in its free-acid form, with limited water solubility, though its sodium salt forms (disodium, tetrasodium EDTA) offer significantly improved aqueous solubility for practical formulation use. Procorbay International supplies EDTA and its sodium salt forms serving as a metal-ion chelating agent across water treatment, personal care, food processing, and industrial cleaning applications, valued for its exceptional ability to bind and sequester metal ions such as calcium, magnesium, iron, and copper.
• EDTA is manufactured through the reaction of ethylenediamine with formaldehyde and sodium cyanide (or via alternative cyanide-free synthesis routes), followed by acidification, purification, and crystallization to achieve the free-acid form, or neutralization with sodium hydroxide to produce the various sodium salt forms. Procorbay sources EDTA from established chelating agent manufacturers with consistent quality control over purity, metal-chelating capacity, and heavy metal specifications.
• Industrially, EDTA's chelating capability makes it invaluable across an exceptionally broad range of applications: as a water softening and scale-prevention agent in industrial water treatment; as a stabilizing agent in personal care and cosmetic formulations, where it prevents metal-ion-catalyzed degradation of other formulation components; as a food preservative and stabilizer, preventing oxidative rancidity and discoloration in processed foods by sequestering trace metal catalysts; and as a cleaning formulation ingredient, where it enhances detergency by binding hardness-causing calcium and magnesium ions. It also finds significant application in agriculture as a micronutrient chelate carrier (delivering iron, zinc, and manganese to plants in bioavailable form) and in various analytical and pharmaceutical applications requiring precise metal-ion control.
• Given its exceptionally broad cross-industry relevance as a foundational chelating agent, Procorbay maintains consistent, multi-form EDTA supply (free acid and sodium salts) to serve water treatment, personal care, food, agriculture, and cleaning formulation manufacturers.