Soda-soda industrial alkali is one of the important chemical raw materials. It is widely used in light industry, daily chemical industry, building materials, chemical industry, food industry, metallurgy, textile, petroleum, national defense, medicine and other fields. It is also used as raw materials, detergents, and photography and analysis fields.

Most of them are used in industry and a small part is for civil use. Among the industrial soda ash, light industry, building materials and chemical industry account for about 2/3, followed by metallurgy, textile, petroleum, national defense, medicine and other industries. The glass industry is the largest consumer of soda ash, consuming 0.2 tons of soda ash per ton of glass. Chemical industry is used to make sodium silicate, sodium dichromate, sodium nitrate, sodium fluoride, baking soda, borax, trisodium phosphate and sewage treatment. Metallurgical industry is used as smelting flux, flotation agent for mineral processing, and desulfurization agent for steelmaking and antimony smelting. Printing and dyeing industry is used as softener. The leather industry is used for degreasing, neutralizing chrome tanning of raw leather and improving alkalinity of chrome tanning liquor. It is also used to produce synthetic detergent additives such as sodium tripolyphosphate and other sodium phosphate salts. Food grade soda is used to produce monosodium glutamate, pasta, etc.