Iodised salt (also spelled iodized salt) is table salt mixed with a minute amount of various salts of the element iodine. The ingestion of iodine prevents iodine deficiency. Worldwide, iodine deficiency affects about two billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Deficiency also causes thyroid gland problems, including "endemic goitre". In many countries, iodine deficiency is a major public health problem that can be cheaply addressed by purposely adding small amounts of iodine to the sodium chloride salt.
Salt is existent in all animal and vegetable life and is coeval with life itself. It is a basic element in food of any living being. Salt as a chemical is of significant importance. Salt was the name originally given to the residue left by evaporation of sea water. Afterwards the name was employed to include all substances held in solution in sea water. Chemists ultimately extended the name to cover all combinations of an acid and a base. Sodium chloride (NaCl) now called common salt, is an example of the simplest type of chemical salt. Sodium chloride is an essential constituent of the body fluids and is responsible for a number of vital functions in the body.
Few Indian Major Players are as under:
Ankur Chemfood Ltd.
G Das & Co. Pvt. Ltd.
Hindustan Salts Ltd.
Nirma Ltd.
Rasoi Ltd.
Saboo Sodium Chloro Ltd.
Sahayamatha Salt Refinery Ltd.
Sambhar Salts Ltd.
Super Salts Pvt. Ltd.
Tamil Nadu Salt Corpn. Ltd.
Tata Chemicals Ltd.
Tuticorin Salt & Marine Chemicals Ltd.
Vaibhav Enterprises Ltd.
Cost Estimation:
Capacity : 15000 MT/ Annum
Plant & Machinery : 698 Lakhs
Cost of Project : 1055 Lakhs
Rate of Return : 45%
Break Even Point : 42%
