Our company has operated in the market since 1999. The headquarters of 'Krysztalowy Swiat®' is situated in Wieliczka, in the vicinity of Wieliczka Salt Mine – the oldest Polish salt company which origins reach back to the Middle Ages. The aforementioned mine entered the UNESCO's First World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage on 8th September 1978, together with 11 other sites from around the world.
Basing on traditions and experience of Wieliczka Salt Mine and its Underground Rehabilitation and Treatment Centre, we manufacture Salt Plates®, Salt Panels®, we design and build Crystal Salt Chambers, Salt Grottos and Salt Caves. We furthermore make interior designs using salt. We execute our orders on the highest possible level, providing our clients with efficient and prompt installation as well as certified appliances. If required all the spare parts to these appliances are in our stock. We also offer guarantee services, including after guarantee service as well as constant customer's service on demand.
We invite all interested to cooperation. All the inquiries and questions will be responded with an utmost pleasure.
From the company's life:
Crystal Salt Chamber™, Salt Plates, Salt Puzzles™, Salt Panels and other our products at the International Fair in Leipzig (07.02.-15.02.2009). Our products have aroused great interest of visitors.
„Krysztalowy Swiat®” on the 1st All-Polish SPA & Wellness Fair, which took place in Lodz between 12 and 14 August 2008. We won the first price in the exhibition stands contest.
Newsweek's Poland DIPLOMA. 1st in the world Crystal Salt Chamber restaurant made by „Krysztalowy Swiat®” won the competition organised by Newsweek Poland in the category of 'the best interior design' in 2005.
Opening of Crystal Salt Chamber restaurant – the first of it's kind object in the World, Cracow, 20.05.2005
The progenitor and investor of the following project was Grzegorz Pajdak – the Chairman of „Krysztalowy Swiat®” company. An opening ceremony was attended by numerous celebrities from Poland and abroad, among whom were: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, world-famous opera singer Peter Dvorsky, Ambassador of Czech Republic, Consul General of Slovakia, Speaker of the Sejm – Marek Borowski, Wieliczka Salt Mine Board of Directors and many others.
Opening of exhibition of Crystal Salt Chamber in the Wieliczka Salt Mine (underground part of Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka) – 15.05.2007.
In 2007 a ceremonial opening of Crystal Salt Chamber in the Wieliczka Salt Mine (underground part of Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka) took place, which was attended by: Antoni Jodlowski – Director of Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka, Representatives of Wieliczka Town Authorities and many guest from entire Poland.
Features about us:
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Salt Grottos use - part 1st
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SALT CAVERN USE1. INTRODUCTION
Salt has been mined over the millennia for consumption and food preservation.Underground mining of salt in Austria and Romania may have begun in the New Stone Age. By contrast, the use of underground caverns (or cavities) formed by solution mining of salt has occurred over only about the last five to six decades. The legal issue of “Who Owns the Hole When the Salt is Gone?”, relative to storage rights in solution-mined caverns, was addressed as recently as the Sixth Salt Symposium.
The objective of this paper is to present an overview of the development of salt cavern use, and the current international status of those uses. A review of previous Salt Symposia Proceedings, now spanning the past 38 years, reveals that the number of papers involving grottos use comprises a generally increasing trend with time. Thus, it is not unexpected that the subject of grottos use represents a major topic at this Symposium in the Year 2000.
2. EARLY DEVELOPMENTS
Storage of both liquids and gases in solution mined salt grottos were reportedly first conceived in Canada in the early 1940’s, during World War II. Storage in salt grottos of liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and other “light hydrocarbons” spread rapidly in the early 1950’s in North America and several European countries. Storage of crude oil reportedly occurred first in England, also in the early 1950’s, during the “Suez Crisis”. Natural gas storage followed storage of liquid hydrocarbons by about a decade in the U.S. and Canada.
Disposal of wastes in salt grottos began initially as a convenient on-site method for discarding of “byproduct” from nearby industrial plants that utilized brine as a feedstock. A number of waste products are disposed of in salt grottos today, however disposal of wastes classified as hazardous generally meets strong local opposition. The (first) Symposium on Salt was held in 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio. The technology of grottos storage, including the use of Sonar, was described. The 1961 conversion of a depleted brine cavern, Morton Number 16, for storage of natural gas near Marysville, Michigan, was noted. This project has been cited as the first storage of natural gas in a solution-mined salt grottos. However, according to the 1962 Symposium, salt grottos were also in use for storage of natural gas at Hutchinson, Kansas, and for storage of “artificial” gas at Tees, England. As for deep operations, LPG was being stored at depth of 8400 ft (2560 m).
The Second Symposium met in 1965, also in Cleveland. Solution mining of better cavern shapes (by methods begun in 1961) was described, as well as construction of a horizontal LPG storage cavern with length over 400 ft (120 m) in thin bedded salt.
So, how far have we advanced in the use of salt grottos since “early developments”? Many of the topics listed almost forty years ago remain very familiar. We will return to this question after discussing further developments in cavern use.
Source: http://www.solutionmining.org
14.09.2007. 10:43