Soda Ash is one of the most basic industrial chemicals and essential component of many products which we use in our everyday lives. About half of all soda ash is consumed by the glass industry: flat glass for the housing, commercial building and automotive industries, container glass for consumer products. Other glass-related uses include lighting, fiberglass insulation, glassware, display screens for consumer electronics and solar panels. Soda Ash is widely used in soaps, detergents, and other cleaning products. It can also be used to increase the alkalinity in swimming pools, helping to ensure the proper pH balance of the water. It also provides the sodium source for the production of pharmaceuticals, food preservatives, adhesives as well as pulp and paper. Soda Ash is also raw material in some sectors of metallurgy, e.g. removing phosphates and sulphurs from non-ferrous or ferrous ores, recycling aluminium and zinc. Additionally, it is used as smelting flux and flotation agent, moreover in production of lithium-based batteries, and lead-based batteries recycling.