At Carbide Industries, calcium carbide is all we do. Our company was built on calcium carbide for acetylene generation, and it remains the backbone of our business. We continue to grow as more steel mills and foundries realize the cost savings from carbide, plus we have barely touched the surface of potential uses in environmental and soil chemistry.How we make calcium carbide can be divided into the furnacing and packing processes. The furnace process takes the raw materials of , lime, and electricity and produces molten carbide. The packing end of the business then takes the cooled carbide, crushing and screening it to s