Salt Refinery

Refining for Agricultural and Industrial Use

For agricultural, industrial and water condition uses, the salt is re-washed to remove dust that might have collected while it was on the stack. Then it's dried in a gas-fired, fluid-bed dryer. The dryer heat the salt to a temperature of 250 degrees F, drying it. By the time the salt leaves the kiln, it's sterile and 99.8 percent pure.

From the dryer, solar salt is shaken through various screens to sort the crystals by size. Different customers - for instance, a fish packer or a homeowner with a water softener - demand particular coarseness or fineness in their salt, so we package our salt according to crystal size. Some of the solar salt is compacted by powerful, hydraulic presses into bricks for horses and other livestock. While Newark’s solar salt is far purer than most specialty salts found on gourmet food shelves, the purest salt, made home use and for commercial food producers, is called evaporated salt.

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