SOLSEL - the New Brand for Animal Lickstones

New Product

esco - european salt company, Hannover, has recently launched a new generation of lickstones branded SOLSEL®. Made from either rock or vacuum salt in a special compression procedure, they have been thoroughly tested and permanently improved to the extent that they are sufficiently weatherproof and long-lasting to be well suited for their application in animal nutrition in the open air.

In animal husbandry, lickstones play an important role as simple and inexpensive nutrition. Besides the essential sodium chloride that is only insufficiently available in most kinds of basic feed, they also provide indispensable and performance-enhancing minerals, such as magnesium and calcium as well as the important trace elements zinc, cobalt, iron, iodine, selenium and copper.

"The general effects of certain minerals to the animal organism are well researched," states Manfred Koopmann, Product Manager for animal feed and lickstones at esco. "The individual need of minerals, though, varies with every animal due to the differences in basic feeding, the performance demanded, as well as its own personal predisposition. Instinctively, the animal uses the lickstone to help itself until its needs are satisfied."

The new salt lickstones are tailored in size and weight particularly to cattle, horses, sheep, goats and pigs as well as bigger game. The 5 kg or 10 kg or 25 kg blocks are suited for ecological farming and available with various ingredients.

Salt for Europe

esco - european salt company, a member of the K+S Group, is Europe's leading salt producer. With corporate headquarters in Hannover, Germany, the company operates at total of 17 production sites and sales offices in Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal, from where it supplies customers all over Europe and even beyond.

With a production of more than 5 million tons of rock salt, evaporated salt and sea salt per year, esco offers a comprehensive range of high quality salt products including pharma and food-grade salt as well as salt tablets and compacted salt for water softening. Furthermore, the product portfolio includes industrial and de-icing salt, brine and salt for various chemical uses. In 2004, the company posted revenues of approx. 360 Mio. Euro, with a total workforce of 1,380 employees.