From immemorial times, salt is, with water, one of the products the most used by man. Thanks to its quality of unsubstituted product, therefore irreplaceable, salt is present everywhere in human and animal life, as well as in various industries.
Agrarian salt
Agrarian salt is made from salt marsh, containing trace elements. It is intended for livestock feeding.
Marshes salt of the south of the country has curative qualities recognized from immemorial times.
Used in solution in hot baths, it brings sensations of deep relaxation and contributes to the elimination of pain in joints and a better blood circulation in the skin.
The industrial salt can be delivered either from evaporated salt, for purity requirements, or from marshes salt. Important loading installations (transport by rail and road) exist at salt marshes, with loading capacities varying between 200 and 700 tons per day.
Chemicals industry ranks among the largest salt consumers.
Vacuum pan salt, with very high purity, is used in pharmaceutics such as serum for haemodialysis. This salt goes through a special processing to insure best production conditions of a pyrogen-free salt with a pharma grade.
Conditioning is provided, at the client’s request, in PE or PP, PE doubled plastic pouches, in big bag or in Kraft paper pouches.
The main responsible for water hardness are calcium (ions Ca++ ) and magnesium (ions Mg++), which are the cause of different incrusting deposits called fur. Thus, it becomes necessary to eliminate calcium and magnesium contained in water. Water softening by sodic permutation is therefore the most used process.
