Stassfurt, July 13, 2021 - For the CIECH Group, a leading producer of evaporated salt, soda ash and soda bicarbonate in the European Union, things are moving at a rapid pace at its new salt plant (total investment of 140 million euros) in Stassfurt, Saxony-Anhalt. In a press conference today attended by trade and general media, CIECH announced plans to start production of pharmaceutical salt in the 4th quarter. It was also reported that the initial products produced in Stassfurt have already been delivered to customers. The various salt products will be supplied primarily to Europe, with pharmaceutical salt to be exported worldwide at a later date.
The CIECH Group is on target with its new German salt works. Experts expect the global market for industrial salts to grow significantly. In 2019, the market was estimated at €13.29 billion, and it is expected to significantly grow to €20.4 billion by 2027*. The salt produced by CIECH is used in many end products, such as medicine, cosmetics, and processed foods. The increasing demand for industrial salts in wastewater treatment is an area that CIECH directly caters to with the salt tablets it produces in Stassfurt. The use of sodium chloride in the manufacture of many products in the pharmaceutical industry is also growing. "Thanks to the high-quality of our brine deposits and a two-stage purification process, we will be able to meet the requirements to produce pharmaceutical salt," announced Miroslaw Skowron, a member of the CIECH Group's Management Board, adding, "our plan is to start production of pharmaceutical salt in the fourth quarter."
During today's press conference, CIECH also announced that its initial products produced in Stassfurt have already been delivered to customers. "We are on schedule with our new plant and have already been able to sell the first salt tablets as well as wet salt to customers in Germany," said Andrzej Dawidowski, Head of the Salt Business Unit at the CIECH Group. Currently, the plant is still in the pre-commissioning phase. Full operations are scheduled for the end of the year.
CIECH is creating around 140 new jobs at the new salt plant, which is adjacent to the existing soda plant. This brings CIECH's total workforce in Stassfurt to over 500. The company's own brine deposits, its own energy supply and the particularly efficient and environmentally friendly MVR technology make the plant one of the most modern and environmentally friendly salt works (for the production of evaporated salt) in Europe. The initial batch of wet salt and the first salt tablets were produced only a few weeks ago. The production of table salt follows next, and this will later be followed by pharmaceutical salt. Salt tablets are one of the primary products being produced in Stassfurt and will account for a high proportion of the total annual production capacity of 450,000 tons of evaporated salt. After reaching this target, the CIECH Group will be one of the leading European producers of evaporated salt and the largest supplier of salt tablets in Europe.
*Source: Industrial Salts Market Size, Share & Analysis and Forecasts to 2027
Publication Date: 01/15/2021
Published by: Marketysers Global Consulting LLP
About CIECH Group
CIECH is an international, steadily growing chemical group with a leading position in global markets. The listed producer of soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, evaporated, edible and pharmaceutical salt, sodium silicates, crop protection products and polyurethane foams has factories in Germany, Poland and Romania. CIECH employs more than 3,000 people throughout the EU, including about 500 in Germany.
In 2021, the CIECH Group is commissioning one of the most modern and environmentally friendly plants to produce evaporated salt in Stassfurt in Saxony-Anhalt, adjacent to its existing soda factory. With the opening of the new salt works in Germany (total investment of 140 million euros), the CIECH Group will be one of the leading companies on the European market for evaporated salt. The plant has an attractive location and enables cost-effective expansion into Western European markets.
Since 2005, CIECH S.A. has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE: CIE), and since 2016, on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (XFRA: CHX).
As one of the major chemical companies headquartered in Poland, CIECH ships its goods to almost all continents. The group produces items that are indispensable in the daily lives of millions of people around the world. The salt produced in Stassfurt is the starting material for a wide range of products used in food processing, water treatment, water softening, as a cleaning agent and as industrial salt in chemical processes. The high production and quality standards at CIECH will also enable the production of pharmaceutical salt. The chemical group plans to start production of pharmaceutical salt at the end of 2021.
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