What is sodium methylate?
Sodium methylate is referred to by many names including alcoholate, methoxide and sodium methoxide. It is a versatile chemical reagent used for many decades in various industries to produce high-value end products like pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, pigments and crop protecting agents. In recent years, the production of biodiesel has become an exciting, new and fast-growing application for sodium methylate. In the future, biodiesel production will have a significant share of the overall sodium methylate demand worldwide. BASF is one of the world’s leading providers of high-quality alcoholates, such as sodium methylate, and produces the catalyst in a dedicated world-scale facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany. From there, the corporation ships the product all over the worldfrom Europe to the United States to Asia to Australia.
