CAS #: 141-53-7, Sodium Formate (HCOONa) is the sodium salt of formic acid and is in white powder form. Sodium Formate is used in several industrial applications such as a de-icer on airport runways, fabric dyeing and printing processes, leather tanning, buffering agent for strong mineral acids to increase their pH, oilfield drilling mud and etc. There are various production methods to produce it and it is mostly produced as by product of the Pentaerythritol production.