Industrial Grade Pink Salt

Unwashed run-of-mine & crushed grades, 96–98% NaCl, bulk

Industrial grade is the salt range's commodity end: the same Khewra and Warcha seams as the edible product, taken as run-of-mine lump or crushed and screened without the washing, food-grade screening and certification that the edible, bath and retail grades carry. It is specified on sodium chloride at 96–98%, moisture at 1–3% because it is not dried to food standard, water-insolubles at up to 2% (shale and clay from the seam), and a size cut: run-of-mine lump for buyers who crush on site, crushed 5–50 mm for de-icing and dissolvers, and coarse granular 1–5 mm for water softeners and industrial dissolving. Colour is mixed pink and white and is irrelevant to every use on this page. What matters commercially is that it is priced as a bulk mineral, tens of dollars a tonne at the mine, so freight from Karachi decides the delivered cost and the buyer's port and handling decide whether the trade works at all.

Buy industrial grade when the salt is a process input and nobody sees it: highway and municipal de-icing, water-softener and treatment salt, chlor-alkali and soda-ash feed, textile dyeing, tanneries and hide curing, oil-well drilling fluids and industrial dissolving. Do not buy it for anything that touches food, cosmetics or livestock, because it is neither washed nor certified for those uses; the other spokes in this family cover them. Pakistan's white and pink rock-salt seams supply this market by container and, for the larger buyers, by bulk vessel out of Karachi and Port Qasim, and the alternative white origin is on the natural rock salt page. CBIL supplies industrial grade against verification of NaCl, moisture, insolubles and screen size at load, in bulk and 1 MT jumbo bags, on FOB, CFR and CIF terms.