Salt has countless other uses besides diet. It makes medicine, textile,  paints, chemicals, decorative items and even used to strengthen roads… In the oil industry, salt is used to increase the density of mud and soil, which creates a more safe and efficient drilling rig. Although salt may not be used extensively in off-shore drilling, enormous amounts of salt are required to facilitate drilling on land. Pharmaceutical companies also use salt in the process of making capsules, as well as the production of saline solutions, which have widespread secondary uses. Saline solutions are not only useful for contact solution, but also for intravenous formulas. Salt use by the medical and pharmaceutical companies accounts for a large percentage of the total national industrial salt usage.

Pakistan has one of the largest resources of best quality sodium chloride generally known as natural mineral salt. We have a long chain of production and supply related to salt and related items.

We provide all kinds and qualities of salt from;

Pink Himalayan Salt

Industrial Salt

Table Salt

Rock Salt

We also deal in salt made items (lamps, stationary items, decorations, monuments etc.).

Of course, the majority of the world’s industrial salt is used to deice roads and to create a safer driving surface, not only for the public, but for government use as well. Sixty to eighty percent of globally mined salt is used to improve the safety of public transit in one capacity or another, but usually to decrease the freezing point of snow and ice.

Salt is often spread on roads prior to inclement weather, allowing a surface layer of brine to provide further protection against ice.

It would be difficult to list all of the thousands of industries that use salt as a raw material or ingredient. The major industries include:

Textile and dyeing. Salt is used to fix dyes and to standardize dye batches

Metal processing, such as aluminum refining. Salt is used to remove impurities

Rubber manufacturing. Salt separates the rubber from latex

Oil and gas drilling. Salt is used to produce a drilling mud that prevents widening of bore holes in rock salt strata, inhibits fermentation, and increases mud density

Pharmaceuticals. Salt is used for tablet and caplet polishing, the production of intraveneous saline solutions and for manufacturing hemodialysis solutions used for kidney machines

Animal hide processing and leather tanning. Salt is used to cure, preserve, and tan hides

Pigment manufacture. Salt is a grinding agent

Ceramics manufacture. Salt acts to vitrify heated clays

Soap making. Salt separates glycerol from water

Detergent production. Salt is used as a filler.

Just a few of salt’s other industrial uses include.

• Windows, lenses and prisms and in high power laser systems (sodium chloride)
• In molten salt reactors to produce and separate transuranic elements (sodium chloride) – see “further reading” to left
• In molten salt incineration of high explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics (sodium chloride)
• In salt bath furnaces for a number of heat treatment applications such as: austenitizing, martempering, neutral hardening, tempering nitriding, carburizing, and dip brazing (sodium chloride)
• To generate electricity in salinity gradient solar ponds (sodium chloride)
• As an antifreeze agent in geothermal heating and cooling (sodium chloride)
• To combat greenhouse gases by sequestering industrial carbon/carbon dioxide underground (sodium chloride)
• And salt mines host experiments in physics and astrophysics that require precise conditions for accurate measurement (sodium chloride)