Knowing the name of industrial salt does not mean that it comes from a combination of several substances or a chemical reaction; No; it is named industrial salt only for its high use of crushed salt in various industries.
All of these named industrial salt: rock salt extracted from mines or crushed salts with different types of aggregates produced in industrial salt factories. which is because directly usage of mineral salt(no refined) as table salt, for example, is not acceptable in kitchens. But the use of industrial salts as a raw material is common in many food and feed manufacturers.
Types of industrial salt sorting:
Mix salt: Crushed salt rock before any sorting
Code 08: 0 to 10 mm
Fishery salt: Coarse sorting from 2 to 10 mm
Code 06: 2 to 4 mm
Code 07: 2 to 8 mm
Code 18: 2 to 4 mm
Sugary salt: Various sorting from 1 to 3 mm
Code 04: 1 to 2 mm
Code 05: 2 to 3 mm
Code 17: 0.8 to 2.5 mm
Shell Salt: Fine grading from 0.3 to 0.8 mm (500 to 800 microns)
Code 02: 300 to 500 microns
Code 03: 500 to 800 microns
Code 09: 0.3 to 1.5 mm
Code 15: 300 to 800 microns
Powder salt: Finest grading size from 50 to 300 microns
Code 01: 50 to 300 microns
Code 26: 0 to 100 microns