The salt in industry

The diverse and remarkable physico-chemical properties of sodium chloride – such as its hygroscopicity, as well as the density, ionic strength and low freezing point of its solutions – make salt an essential and hard-to-replace technological agent in many industrial applications, offering a generally very competitive cost-performance ratio.

Depending on the processes and operating conditions, the diversity of these uses requires different types of salt. With expertise in all production methods and techniques enabling the production of a very wide range of grades and packaging formats (sea salt, rock salt or refined salt, dry or moist, ground, sieved or compacted, from the finest to the coarsest, in bags, flexible containers or in bulk), the Salins Group offers tailored solutions for all industrial applications and sectors.

Among these industrial uses, the main ones include:

• the preservation of raw hides and skins
• salt and metals
• the fixation of dyes in the textile industry
• the manufacture of fatty substances used in the formulation of cosmetic products
• and solar ponds (experiments in Israel, the United States and France)

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