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What is the best road salt for driveways? This can be a difficult question to answer, since there is a variety of deicing products available for different needs, for industries and homes alike. Ultimately, the best salt is going to be the safest and most efficient for [...]

Road salt is critical for industrial and public safety applications, especially in winter road maintenance. The European Union has established general standards to ensure the safety, effectiveness, and environmental compatibility of road salt. A notable standard, EN 16811-1:2016, was approved by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) [...]

Since the beginning of times, humans have found more than 14.000 different uses for rock salt. For every period in our history, salt has had different, important values, and such values have been evolving to this day. In each historical period humans found a new use for [...]

Iodine, as rock salt, seems to have really important effects on health. Its effects on the thyroid gland are well known. Such is just one of the many reasons to iodize rock salt. The objective of iodization is to strengthen rock salt by adding some other necessary [...]

The essential components of rock salt, sodium and chlorine are essential elements for the operation of a large number of modern industries. In a previous article we landed on very important uses: rock salt for deicing and common uses. Rock salt is used in a number of [...]

Following our articles on rock salt uses, the current article is about how rock salt is very adequate for animal feeding. In the same way that the benefits of rock salt for human consumption are evident, we provide rock salt to feed animals. It has become clear [...]

In our previous article about rock salt uses we mentioned that it is fundamental for deicing, especially for roads. Deicing Salt, also known as Road Salt, is widely used for highway ice melting in all developed countries because of the huge profits involved and the limited risk [...]

The Role of Rock Salt in Water Softening To avoid these issues, there are many water treatment systems on the market that use rock salt for water softener systems as a key raw material. This is essential to maintain the efficiency of resins that help provide us [...]

Nowadays, rock salt is one of the cheapest products we can find in the market, although, a long time ago, things weren’t like this. To understand its journey, it's essential to explore where rock salt comes from and how it has shaped different industries over time. The [...]

What is Rock Salt? Rock salt is the mineral form of sodium chloride, similar to the table salt we use, but in a more natural, unrefined state. It’s used widely in industries such as water treatment, agriculture, and chemical manufacturing. Is Salt a Rock? Yes, rock salt is [...]