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This is a modern industrial firm which holds the accumulated experience of three generations of a salt refining family, it is located in Puglia region, in the South of Italy.
Sea salt is excavated from Adriatic Sea and then slowly evaporates in salting basins under power of sun and wind until the sodium chloride reaches 25,5° and 30° Baumé (salt concentration - saturation index).
Then the water is removed and sea salt is harvested from the bottom of the salting basins. On average 27 kg of salt are obtained from 1 cubic meter of sea water. The salt is then gathered in huge heaps that resemble white snow mountains.
Then, according to the uses of the salt, it is washed, centrifuged, dried, ground, screened, enriched with iodine and anti-caking agent and packaged for selling. The production consists of:
- Iodized sea salt: sea salt gets enriched with iodine in order to prevent and fight iodine deficiency in the organism, that causes for instance thyroid trouble.
- Whole salt: it is salt partially washed and undried that maintains untouched many oligoelements. It is particularly appreciated by a public that pays attention to genuineness and quality of food.
- Dishwasher salt: specific sodium chloride, its action is totally purifying on water softeners resins.

In addition to food salt the company also processes products for industries and collectivities, they are listed below.
Alimentary sea salt dried at 220°C (Uses: Canteens - Bread-making - Cheeses - Salt pork. Users: Bakeries - Sausage factories - Cheese dairies - Alimentary industries- Alimentary wholesalers - Administrations - Communities).
Alimentary washed sea salt (Uses: Pickle and dry-salting of alimentary products - Water softening. Users: Canneries - Cheese dairies - Ham factories - Fish industries - Water
softening plants - Administrations - Communities).
Sea salt for industrial use (Uses: Salting and tanning of skins - Road deicing - Water softening. Users: Tanneries - Dye-works - Local Administrations - Road maintenance societies Municipalities - Hospitals - Farmers’ unions).
Sodium chloride for zootechnical feeding (Uses: Zootechnical feeding. Users: Fodder factories - Agricultural factories - Farmers’ unions -Retailers of fertilizers and farming products).
Tablet salt for water softening (Uses: Domestic and industrial water softeners. It helps the ionic exchange of the water softeners resins, eliminating limestone from water and increasing the duration of domestic devices and water softening plants. Users: Restaurants - Hotels - Hospitals - Communities Swimming pools- Industries).
All the products have different packages which vary in material and size.

The company is looking for distributors in United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland and Spain. The ideal partner should be well inserted in alimentary industries, food factories, restaurants, large retailers and industrial salt to tanneries, dry cleaners, road maintenance societies, farmers associations.

Advantages & innovations

This is a company with a very long term experience which really well knows its land, its sea and its products. Moreover, the salt-works consist of a wide expanse of water measuring 4000 hectares, which takes on a red hue during summer due to the presence of “artemia salinis”, a micro-organism formed during the slow precipitation of salt. The territory is a natural State Reserve declared as a Humid Area of International Interest. Faunistically important from the ornithological point of view, this area is on the flight path of migratory birds from Africa to Northern Europe. It is the land of pink flamingoes, herons, royal swans, stilt birds and many other rare species of aquatic birds. Certified quality system: ISO9002, ISO9001:2015, ISO22000

Stage of development

ITALY

Partner sought

The company is considering the distribution service agreement. Type of partner: distributors with experience in the sector which could be able to extend the company's products in thetarget countries. Trans-National Co-Operation: Preferred The ideal partner should be well inserted in alimentary industries, food factories, restaurants, large retailers and industrial salt to tanneries, dry cleaners, road maintenance societies, farmers associations.