TETRA liquid calcium chloride is used in various applications to retard cold weather hazards, including snow and ice control on roadways (meets or exceeds ASTM D98-95 and AASHTO Ml 44--86 standards). It is also used as an accelerator for ready mix concrete curing, and as an anti-freeze for coal storage and transportation.

This product is widely used in oilfield applications as completion and workover fluids to increase density, and as a drilling mud additive to increase density and prevent clay hydration.

It can also be used as a fugitive dust control agent and roadbed stabilizer; a weighting fluid for tractor tires to improve traction; an inexpensive source of calcium in wastewater treatment to remove fluoride and break oil/water emulsions; a low-temperature brine in refrigeration systems, and in the manufacture of pigments and steel.