Associated with Cadmium Oxide, Cadmium Powder is used for manufacturing batteries and high-performance rechargeable accumulators used in the aeronautical and railway industries, electric chargers, portable wireless tools, telephone relays, gas meters and emergency lighting.

The plastics and ceramics industry also uses yellow or red pigments containing Cadmium salts for their resistance to high temperatures.

The most recent application developments for Cadmium salts have occurred in the photovoltaic industry using the "thin-film" technology based on CdTe and CIGS.

Clean energy is the key concerne of 21st-century. Non-polluting, renewable and sustainable, it meets the new environmental protection options.

Floridienne Chimie is one of the main producers of Cadmium Oxide, Powder, Nitrate and Chloride.

As such, the company continues to invest in order to improve the capacity and safety of its installations.

Conscious of its place in the world of Nickel-Cadmium batteries, Floridienne Chimie has become involved in the recycling of used batteries through SNAM, its sister company and the world's recycler leader of rechargeable batteries. The metal thus recovered has a purity of 99.99%, which can be refined up to 99.999% and represents for Floridienne Chimie an important source of raw material.

Floridienne Chimie produces various qualities of Cadmium Salts:

Cadmium Oxide: for NiCd batteries, PVC stabilizers, industrial paint pigments, surface treatment, electric relays, and so on and so forth.
Cadmium Powder: for NiCd batteries, and for the photovoltaic industry.
Cadmium Nitrate: for surface treatment.
Cadmium Chloride: for thin-film solar panels.

Cadmium Powder is also used for the cadmium-coating of mechanical parts of which the resistance has to be perfect.

Thanks to SNAM's support, its sister company, Floridienne Chimie is able to offer its customers total solutions, in closed loop, involving the supply of Cadmium salts and the recycling of end-of-life products or production waste.

This voluntary approach, of the Floridienne Group enables it to process Cadmium salts in a responsible and secure environment.