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<p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><B>Akzo Nobel
Salt is one of the world's leading salt specialists, supplying high-quality salt
products for all market and applications, including food-processing, grocery and
retail (JOZO®, NEZO®, Salzina®, Broxomatic®), agriculture (KNZ®), water softening
(Broxo®), pharmaceuticals (SANAL®), general industry, electrolysis salt and salt
for de-icing. Akzo Nobel Salt's headquaters is situated in Amersfoort. Production
sites for vacuum evaporated salt are located in Delfzijl, Hengelo (the Netherlands),
Stade (Germany) and Mariager (Denmark) and for solar sea salt in Onslow, Australia
(bulk).</B></font><br> </p></td></tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td><td width="465" valign="top">
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Salt plays a key role in almost
everything we do:</b></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">i<font size="2">t
preserves the food we eat, colors the clothes we wear... salt is even used in
the production of fuel to heat our homes!<br> Highway maintenance authorities
use it to keep roads safe, while domestic and industrial water softening and many
pharmaceutical applications depend on the molecular qualities of pure salt.</font></font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Salt
is a part of our lives.<br> </b></font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And
for us, at Akzo Nobel Salt, it's also a way of life.</font> </b></p></td><td width="185" valign="top">
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