Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG

Company Description

Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG, with its head office in Heilbronn, is the parent company of the SWS Group and employs a total of approximately 1,000 people at all its locations in the salt, waste management, logistics and tourism business segments.

Salt has been extracted from salt deposits up to 50 metres thick for over 125 years in the Salt Mine Heilbronn, the largest in Western Europe. The Salt Mine Berchtesgaden, which belongs to the company, has a long tradition and has been producing salt using the "wet mining process" since 1517.

The raw material is also used for the company's own evaporated salt production in the Saltworks Bad Friedrichshall. This saltworks has a capacity of approximately 180,000 tons per year. A wide range of evaporated salt products are produced in various refinement steps.

Served Area

Worldwide