SULFUR

 is one of the chemical industry’s most important raw materials. It is used principally as the derivative (sulfuric acid) in many chemical and industrial processes and is particularly important in the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers, the single largest end use for sulfur. Other key uses include rubber processing, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical applications. Sulfur’s importance to industrial economies and its relative ease of transportation have made it a commodity of major international interest. It is derived as a by-product from operations such as petroleum refining, tar sands recovery, heavy oil and natural gas processing, and from coking and metallurgical plants.Sulfur can be applied both prilled and granular.