Our firm has performed on the market since 1999. The headquarters of 'Krysztalowy Swiat' is situated in Wieliczka, in the close vicinity of Wieliczka Salt Mine – the oldest polish salt company which origins reaches back to 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 CHAMBER, 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:
„Krysztalowy Swiat” on the 1st All-Polish SPA & Wellness Fair, which took place in Lodz between 12 an 14 August 2008. We won the first price in the exhibition stands contest.
Newsweek's Poland DIPLOMA. 1st in the world CRYSTAL SALT CHAMBERS 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 such object in the whole 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: Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, world-famous opera singer peter Dvorsky, Ambassador of Czech Republic, the Slovakian Consul, Marshal 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:
"telegraph.co.uk"
"Gazeta Krakowska"
"Newsweek"
"Doradca Hotelarza"
Salt lakes - Aral Sea
The Aral Sea (Kazakh: Арал Теңізі, Aral Tengizi, Uzbek: Orol dengizi, Russian: Аральскοе мοре) is a landlocked endorheic salt sea in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. The name roughly translates as "Sea of Islands", referring to more than 1,000 islands of one hectare or more that dot its waters.Since the 1960s the Aral Sea has been shrinking, as the rivers that feed it (the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya) were diverted by the then Soviet Union for irrigation. The Aral Sea is heavily polluted, largely as the result of weapons testing, industrial projects, and fertilizer runoff.
Ecological problems
The major ecological problem is that diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for irrigation has shrunk the Aral Sea dramatically; the Aral Sea has been drying up for about 50 years. This has brought about a number of ecological and economic problems for the sea and the area. One of the greatest misuses of the Aral is that for the past forty years it has been a dumping ground for raw sewage runoff, r
esulting in the extermination of many native fish. The Russian government, led at the time by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks, decided in 1918 that the two rivers that fed the Aral Sea, the Amu Darya in the south and the Syr Darya in the northeast, would be diverted to try to irrigate the desert, in order to grow rice, melons, cereal, and also, cotton; this was part of the Soviet plan for cotton, or "white gold", to become a major export. (This did eventually end up becoming the case, and today Uzbekistan is one of the world's largest exporters of cotton.)
The irrigation canals began to be built on a large scale in the 1930s. Many of the irrigation canals were poorly built, letting water leak out or evaporate; from the Qaraqum Canal, the largest in Central Asia, perhaps 30–70% of the water went to waste. Today only 12% of Uzbekistan's irrigation canal length is waterproofed.
By 1960, somewhere between 20 and 50 cubic kilometers of water were going each year to the land instead of the sea. Thus, most of the sea's water supply had been diverted, and in the 1960s the Aral Sea began to shrink. From 1961 to 1970, the Aral's sea level fell at an average of 20 cm a year; in the 1970s, the average rate nearly tripled to 50–60 cm per year, and by the 1980s it continued to drop, now with a mean of 80–90 cm each year. After seeing this, the rate of water usage for irrigation continued to increase: the amount of water taken from the rivers doubled between 1960 and 1980; cotton production nearly doubled in the same period.
The disappearance of the lake was no surprise to the Soviets; they expected it to happen long before. The Soviet Union apparently considered the Aral to be "nature's error", and a Soviet engineer said in 1968 that "it is obvious to everyone that the evaporation of the Aral Sea is inevitable".
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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