Pimai Salt Co., Ltd.

One of Life’s Basic Essentials Salt is one of life’s basic essentials, and is used in every household daily for such a wide range of uses as cooking and disinfecting. However few people are aware that salt is also a very important raw material and one that is used to manufacture other important products with various applications. Industrial salt is the main raw material in the production of caustic soda and chlorine, essentials in the manufacture of such products as processed food, paper pulp, plastics, detergents, textiles, petroleum, cooking oil, pharmaceuticals and glass, besides being utilized in such processes as metal-plating, water purification, stain removal and so on. Pimai Salt Co., Ltd, was established to address the burgeoning local needs for salts. Its modern salt plant is located at Amphoe Pimai in Nakorn Ratchasima Province. It is the only pure vacuum salt plant in Asia, with an annual production capacity of over 1,000,000 tonnes.