EN 16811-1 Type 1 de-icing salt — Nordic municipal tender
How Egypt Globe Group won a Swedish municipal de-icing tender for 3,500 MT of EN 16811-1 Type 1 (kiln-dried + anti-caking) salt sourced from Siwa Oasis…
The brief
A Nordic municipal road-maintenance authority issued a tender for 3,500
MT of de-icing salt for the 2025/26 winter season. The spec was
EN 16811-1 Type 1 kiln-dried with E535 sodium ferrocyanide anti-caking
≤ 80 ppm, particle size 0/6.3 mm Grade A motorway. Delivery DDP into a
specified inland bonded depot.
The challenge
- Strict moisture spec — ≤ 1.5% moisture, hard to hit with sea salt
in a single pass; required rock-salt feedstock + kiln-drying
delivery to a 200-km-inland depot, requiring our distribution layer
- Tender language — bid had to translate Egyptian rock-salt
specifications into the EN-16811-1 grade taxonomy precisely
How we executed
- Source — Siwa Oasis rock-salt mining, run through our Damietta
wash + screen + kiln-dry line
- Anti-caking dosing — 60 ppm E535 (well below the 80 ppm cap),
per-batch lot certificate
- Inspection — TÜV Austria / SGS PSI at Damietta with grain-size sieve test +
moisture verification + heavy-metal screen
→ inland depot leg with refrigerated trucking (winter conditions)
- Documentation — full L/C bank set + EUR1 preferential origin +
PVoC equivalent for the Nordic destination
The numbers
What the buyer said
"We tendered eight suppliers including three EU-based ones. Egypt Globe was the only one to bid Type 1 spec with explicit ferrocyanide declaration and a DDP price including final-mile. Won on quality match + total landed cost."
Looking for de-icing supply?
We hold every EN 16811-1 grade across both Type 1 and Type 2 variants
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Quality at the Core — how this shipment was verified
Every consignment Egypt Globe Group ships passes the same five verification gates. The evidence set below is what the buyer in this case study received; it is the same set issued on every contract, because the group has operated with an internal Quality Assurance division since its 2014 incorporation and treats a lot outside specification as a lot that does not load.
| Gate | Control | Evidence issued | Who · frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Extraction / source | Source sampling on every production lot | Source laboratory · per lot |
| 2 | Processing | Washing, screening, drying, grading or milling verified against the contract specification | Plant QC · per batch |
| 3 | Port laboratory | Full analysis against the contract specification; Certificate of Analysis or Mill Test Certificate issued before the Bill of Lading | EGG port QC lab · per shipment |
| 4 | Independent inspection | Pre-shipment sampling, witness testing, draft survey or tally; sealed retained samples held 90 days | TÜV Austria / SGS / Intertek / BV · per vessel |
| 5 | Destination acceptance | CoA cross-referenced with the buyer's arrival laboratory; retained samples arbitrate any variance | Buyer laboratory · on discharge |
- Quality & compliance — the QA charter, inspection partners and destination conformity programmes
- Inspection & QC · Trade documentation · Loading ports
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