Programme*
Welcome to Salt Forum 2026!
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 16 November
09:00-16:00 Salt Masterclass by Vladimir Sedivy, Salt Partners Ltd (Optional | Separate Fee)
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16:30 Registration Hotel Lobby
18:00 Welcome Reception
TUESDAY 17 November
07:30 Registration
INTRODUCTION | OVERVIEW
09:00 Welcome & Introduction
Mike O’Driscoll, Director, IMFORMED, UK
09:30 Global salt market overview
Stefan Schlag, Managing Director, Salt Market Information, Switzerland
10:00 COFFEE sponsored by 
N. AMERICA | TUNISIA | GHANA
11:00 North American salt market & the Great Atlantic Salt Project
Nolan Peterson, CEO, Atlas Salt, Canada
11:30 US de-icing salt market and its demand on domestic and overseas sources
Matt Fathelbab, Director, SeryLee Group, Egypt
12:00 Tunisia’s salt production and markets
Wafy Damak, Export Director, General Salt Co. – SOTUSEL / SOSASEL, Tunisia
12:30 Positioning Ghana to become the leading salt producer for West Africa
Kwame Agyei Apeaning, CEO, Precious Premium Salt & Co-Founder Ghana Chamber of Salt Producers-Exporters, Ghana
13:00 LUNCH
BRINE PROCESSING INNOVATIONS
14:30 Unlocking new value from solar sea salt bitterns and desalination reject brine
Rudolph Van Niekerk, Industry Director-SOP, K-UTEC AG Salt Technologies, Australia
15:00 Membrane brine concentration: Enabling next-generation brine mining & salt production
Dr Basel Abusharkh, CEO, Osmosys Technologies, USA
15:30 COFFEE
SOLAR SALT PROCESSING | SALT ANALYSIS
16:00 High purity solar salt production technology: comparison between operations in Mexico & Australia
Vladimir Sedivy, President, Salt Partners Ltd, Switzerland
16:30 Best practices in salt analysis for the chlor-alkali market
Azade Zaretabibi, Snr. Mgr. Quality & Lab Services & David Miyamoto, Technical Lab Mgr., Kuehne Co., USA
EUSALT | INTERNATIONAL SALT ALLIANCE
17:00 EUsalt Adriana Nosewicz, Managing Director, EUsalt, Belgium
17:15 International Salt Alliance Wouter Lox, Coordinator, International Salt Alliance, Belgium
17:30 CLOSE OF CONFERENCE & NETWORKING DRINKS RECEPTION
*subject to change
WEDNESDAY 18 November
MARKETS: CHLOR-ALKALI | APAC | INDIA
09:00 Chlor-alkali market review and outlook
Angel Fernandez, Director Chlor-Alkali EMEA, Chemical Market Analytics, UK
09:30 APAC salt market review outlook
Takashi Kawada, Director, Pacific Commodities Exchange Pte Ltd (PCE), Singapore
10:00 The Indian salt industry: current scenario & outlook
Bharat Raval, President, The Indian Salt Manufacturers’ Association, India
10:30 COFFEE
SORTING | PROCESSING DEVELOPMENTS
11.30 Optical sorting in salt mining: upgrading salt for higher-value applications
Johannes Hornung, Area Sales Manager Europe – Mining, Steinert GmbH, Germany
12:00 40 Years of evolution in salt production: From energy intensive to integrated solutions
Robert van Voorst, Managing Director, Titan Salt, the Netherlands
12:30 TBC
Balasubramanian Ramachandran, Managing Director, Shriraam Salt Engineering Pvt Ltd, India
13:00 LUNCH & CLOSE OF CONFERENCE
*subject to change
