Safety Data Sheets HomeProducts and ServicesProductsBromine and Intermediates Bromine and Intermediates Customers around the world turn to Great Lakes for bromine-based chemical intermediates that serve as building blocks for other compounds, and to engineer highly complex organic molecules that meet specific performance, environmental, and quality requirements. These intermediates make their way into products people use each and every day. Bromine-based compounds make your home and office safer by protecting items such as furniture, electronics, television sets, and home construction materials from fire. You'll find our bromine-based products in rubber, soaps and detergents, medications, flavors and fragrances, and even in photographic film. And, our bromine and intermediates help improve crop yields and keep industrial water systems such as cooling towers and pulp and paper processing systems work cleaner and more efficiently. Utilizing our integrated position in bromine, Great Lakes is helping to make finished products and industrial applications safer, cleaner, and better. FEATURE Great Lakes has developed a process to recycle bromine that is not fully consumed in the chemical processes used to manufacture everything from dishwashing detergents to analgesics, rather than return the material to the environment ... more RESOURCES Bromine Safety and Handling Guide WHAT IS BROMINE? Bromine is a chemical element commonly found in nature as bromide salts. The most recoverable form of bromine is from soluble salts found in seawater, salt lakes, inland seas, and brine wells ... more MERGER NEWS Great Lakes and Crompton have joined forces... we're now Chemtura more

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