Programme*
We welcome you to Salt Forum 2025!
Join us for a stimulating conference, intelligently programmed and expertly moderated, covering the key trends and developments, challenges, and influencing factors shaping world salt supply and demand.
MONDAY 17 November
09:00-16:00 Salt Masterclass by Vladimir Sedivy, Salt Partners Ltd (Optional | Separate Fee)
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16:30 Registration InterContinental Hotel Lobby
18:00 Welcome Reception
TUESDAY 18 November
08:00 Registration
INTRODUCTION & OVERVIEWS
08:45 Welcome & Introduction
Mike O’Driscoll, Director, IMFORMED, UK
09:15 Salt supply & market outlook
Alison Saxby, Research Director, Project Blue, UK
09:45 The European salt industry: innovation & collaboration in a changing Europe
Adriana Nosewicz, Managing Director, EUsalt, Belgium
10:00 COFFEE sponsored by 
SUPPLY: LOGISTICS | EGYPT | TURKEY
11:00 From Commodity to SALT INNOVATION HUB
Oriol Domènech, CEO, MaxiSalt, Spain
11:30 Deicing salt production in Egypt
Dr. Mohamed Khalil, CEO, Al Khalil Salt Co., Egypt
12:00 High quality salt production in Turkey including pharma grade PDV salt
Ahmet Solak, Export Manager, Mutlucan Tuz AŞ, Turkey
12:30 LUNCH
PROJECTS: OMAN | AFRICA | AUSTRALIA
14:00 Naqaa Salt: Laying foundation for a new global salt manufacturing hub
Vivek Somani, Strategic Business Leader, Naqaa Salt, Oman
14:30 Salt project developments in Africa
Balasubramanian Shriram, Managing Director, Shriraam Engineering, India
15:00 How Australia’s newest Salt Supplier BCI Minerals is responding to changing market dynamics
David Boshoff, Managing Director, BCI Minerals, Australia
15:30 COFFEE sponsored by 
PROCESSING DEVELOPMENTS & INNOVATIONS 1
16:00 Back to the Roots: Latest developments in the field of technology providers for salt plants
Eörs Kondorosy, Sales & Process Director, Veolia HPD®- Evatherm® Evaporation & Crystallization Solutions, Switzerland
16:30 The Plug-in and Go innovation: Skid-mounted Pure Vacuum Dried Salt Plant
Ganesh Iyer, Chief Technical Officer, M/s. SALTEC Inc., India
17:00 Climate resilient & energy efficient designing of solar salt works for sustainability in the salt industry
Presented by: Mike O’Driscoll, Director, IMFORMED, UK; (Author: Dr Bhoomi Andharia, Principal Scientist, Salt & Marine Chemicals Division, CSIR-CSMCRI, India)
17:30 CLOSE OF DAY 1 & Networking Drinks Reception
*subject to change
WEDNESDAY 19 November
CHLOR-ALKALI MARKET | GLOBAL CHALLENGES
09:00 Global overview of chlor-alkali markets, new developments and trends
Angel Fernandez, Director Chlor-Alkali EMEA, Chemical Market Analytics, UK
09:30 Salt & its downstream chlor-alkali markets: direct & indirect implications of a trade war
Dr Stefan Schlag, Managing Director, Salt Market Information, Switzerland
10:00 Identifying global challenges for salt industry leaders: viewpoint from the ISA, the Global Voice of Salt Industry Leaders
Wouter Lox, Coordinator, International Salt Alliance, Belgium
10:15 COFFEE sponsored by
PROCESSING DEVELOPMENTS & INNOVATIONS 2
11:15 New LSRRO membrane enables OARO process to yield water, salt and minerals from desalination waste
Vladimir M. Sedivy, President, Salt Partners Ltd, Switzerland
11:45 Innovations & development of new state-of-the-art sea salt refinery
Koen Egberts, Sales Manager, & Julian Ravenshorst, Sales Engineer, Tema Process BV, Netherlands
12:15 Optimising salt plant performance: purge recovery & energy efficiency
Robert van Voorst, Managing Director, Titan Salt, Netherlands
12:45 LUNCH & CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
*subject to change
