TICA Granules — Regional Trade Name for TCCA 90 Granular

In several export markets across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, buyers and procurement officers routinely source tica granules when specifying stabilized chlorine for water treatment. The term tica is a widely used regional shorthand for TCCA (trichloroisocyanuric acid), the high-available-chlorine solid disinfectant used in municipal water, pools, aquaculture and industrial sanitation. Everglory Industrial supplies tica granules as the granular form of TCCA 90%, manufactured to international specification and shipped in UN 2468 certified packaging from China to global distributors.

Why Buyers Search for TICA Granules

Trade-name variation is normal in commodity chemicals. Just as "bleaching powder" describes calcium hypochlorite in some markets and "trichlor" describes trichloroisocyanuric acid tablets in others, tica granules is the buyer-facing term used by importers, water-treatment contractors and pool-service distributors in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, the Gulf states, Egypt and parts of Spanish-speaking Latin America. These buyers know the product they need — slow-dissolving, cyanuric-acid-stabilized granular chlorine with 90% available chlorine — and use the shorter trade name in RFQs, tender documents and customs declarations.

Everglory aligns to the buyer's terminology so procurement teams find the correct specification quickly. When you request a tica granules quotation, you receive a single product: TCCA 90% granular, 8-30 mesh, in UN-certified drums — no substituted chemistries, with full documentation so local customs and end-users recognize the consignment as the product ordered.

TICA Granules Product Specifications

The table below is the binding specification for all tica granules shipments from Everglory Industrial. Regional buyers should match these values against their tender or local NSF/ANSI 60 and WHO drinking-water requirements before ordering.

Beyond the granular form traded as tica granules, TCCA is also available in powder form for rapid-dissolution applications and in tablet form (200g/3-inch, 20g/1-inch and 3.3g mini). Buyers who need a different physical form should request the specific grade in their RFQ so we ship the correct variant.

Regional Trade-Name Reference for TCCA

Procurement teams often encounter several names for the same molecule. The reference below clarifies how tica granules relates to names used in other markets, so buyers confirm they are ordering the correct product and customs can classify the consignment without delay.

• TICA granules — common in Southeast Asia, the Gulf, Egypt and parts of Latin America; shorthand for TCCA granular.
• TCCA 90 granular — the international INCI/technical name used in specifications, COA and SDS documents.
• Trichloroisocyanuric acid granules — the full chemical name used in customs tariff codes and pharmaceutical-grade tenders.
• Trichlor granular — the pool-trade name used in North America and Oceania.

All four names refer to the same UN 2468 product. Everglory's shipping documents, COA and SDS use the full technical name trichloroisocyanuric acid 90% granular, with tica granules noted in the commercial description so regional customs and receiving buyers can reconcile the consignment with their order.

Applications Served by TICA Granules

Because tica granules is the granular form of TCCA, it is selected wherever sustained, cyanuric-acid-stabilized chlorine release is required and where a free-flowing solid is easier to dose than tablets. Typical applications include:

• Municipal and rural drinking-water treatment — shock chlorination of wells, reservoirs and tanker-fed systems where granular dosing is preferred over tablet erosion feeders.
• Swimming-pool and resort maintenance — daily and shock treatment of outdoor pools where UV stabilization extends chlorine residual.
• Aquaculture and shrimp farming — pond-water disinfection, inlet-water treatment and biosecurity protocols in tropical latitudes.
• Industrial process water and cooling-tower treatment — biofilm control in recirculating systems and seasonal shock dosing.
• Emergency and humanitarian water response — bulk granular stock for NGOs and relief agencies reconstituting drinking water after disasters.

Packaging, Documentation and Export Logistics

All tica granules shipments leave Everglory's facility in UN 2468 certified plastic drums with inner liners, with drum weights from 5 kg to 50 kg and custom drum weights available on request for distributor-specific SKUs. Standard FOB loading ports are Shanghai and Ningbo; CIF and door-to-door options can be quoted on request. Each shipment is accompanied by:

• Certificate of Analysis (COA) per lot, including available chlorine, moisture and granular size distribution.
• Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS/SDS) in English, with translations available for destination markets.
• UN 2468 dangerous-goods declaration and IMDG-compliant sea-freight documentation.
• SGS or third-party inspection report on request, prior to vessel loading.

We can supply in conformance with WHO drinking-water guidelines and NSF/ANSI 60 standards, with documentation on request. Buyers with local certification requirements (POM in Indonesia, SASO in Saudi Arabia, ICEGATE in India) should state the destination and required certificates in the RFQ so we align documents to the receiving authority.

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