subject: High Demand For Rock Salt, Do You Have Yours? [print this page] Remember last Winter? The United Kingdom suffered one of the worst winters it has had in 30 years, this caused thousands of school children to stay at home as more than 1,000 schools in Scotland, and the north of England had to close. It also caused many car accidents, airports to be shut down and many other travel inconveniences. These weather conditions greatly increased the demand for Rock Salt.
What makes Rock Salt so valuable, is the fact thats it lowers the temperature at which water freezes. So ice melts when salt is added until the temperature drops to about -15C when it ceases to be useful. The lowest recorded temperature last Winter was approximately -14 C.
The United Kingdoms Salt Mines can produce and deliver approximately 30 000 tonnes of rock salt each week, during last winter the motorways were requiring 25 000 tonnes of rock salt each day in order to keep the roads safe.
This year people are thinking ahead as Rock Salt is in high demand at the moment, people are stock piling it after the events of early this year. Suppliers are already predicting shortages. Councils and local governments have been told to hold greater stocks than previous years in order to prevent any chances of running out again. This will greatly increase the price of Rock Salt and could knock out regular customers who want to purchase rock salt for their homes or businesses.
System Hygiene is one supplier who are trying to push this with their customers and advising them to purchase their stocks now to prevent possible shortages.
System Hygiene is committed to being the optimum supplier of hygiene & safety products, and to growing the company whilst offering excellent value for money.
