The uses of industrial salt are: making alkali, making soap, producing chlorine and sodium hydroxide, and also widely used in metallurgy, tanning, pharmacy, agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery. In addition, industrial salt is widely used in food, feed, leather, ceramics, glass, soap, dye, oil, mining and metallurgy, medicine and other industrial sectors, as well as water treatment, ice-making and refrigeration, road snow removal and so on.

Industrial salt is one of the most basic raw materials in chemical industry, and its main components are sodium chloride and sodium nitrite. It is called the mother of chemical industry. Hydrochloric acid, caustic soda, soda ash, ammonium chloride and chlorine in the main products of basic chemical industry are mainly produced from industrial salt.