DryStore – keeping rock salt stocks dry

What is DryStore?

DryStore is Salt Union's ideal storage solution for bulk quantities of rock salt – cost effective and easy to maintain.

DryStore is a unique salt covering system that ensures salt stocks stay dry by means of a patented air vent and weighting system that resists the strongest winds.

DryStore's unique design allows quick, easy access to salt stocks, while maintaining protection from the rain, meaning less erosion of road salt stocks – and budgets too.

Leaving salt uncovered can negatively affect quality, damage the environment and lead to financial penalties owing to stock losses. Installing DryStore will transform your winter maintenance operations.

What are the benefits?

Easy to install and highly effective for rock salt storage

Full installation supervision provided by the Salt Union team is included and most piles can be profiled and sheeted in under four hours. With no gaps or holes in the sheeting, as well as heat sealed seams, it is the ideal bulk rock salt storage solution.

Simple to use

Other sheeting systems can tend to be cumbersome and difficult to maintain. With DryStore, you simply roll back the sheeting to allow access to just the part of the pile that's needed.

Maintains quality of road salt - indefinitely

DryStore maintains the quality of the salt stocks, no matter how long they are stored before use. Unlike some other bulk salt storage products, there is no risk of additives, such as Safecote, being lost from pre-treated salt stocks.

Protects budgets

No extensive capital outlay is required for DryStore.

Strategic bulk rock salt storage

DryStore is perfect for strategic long term stockpiling or for any salt stocks that cannot be stored in a fixed structure such as salt barns or salt storage buildings.

Better for the environment

When it comes to road salt storage, DryStore is a greener solution, significantly reducing the amount of salt lost due to leaching and providing an excellent means of managing any environmental risks associated with bulk rock salt storage.

Don't just take our word for it...

Diane Ware, a Highways Maintenance Engineer at Wiltshire Council explains the advantages of DryStore,

"In the past Wiltshire protected its stored salt by using a designed tarpaulin sheeting system, these sheets were heavy and needed to be put on the heaps in a specific order for them to adequately keep the rain and wind out, the tarpaulin sheeting system required a lot of maintenance throughout its use as high winds caused the salt to be exposed."

"The Drystore system is installed by the Salt Union team and is profiled to the salt heap, seams are heat sealed and the salt bags that are attached to weigh the cover down are ideal – if an area needs to be exposed for use the bags are just cut to give quick access to the salt. The sheeting is lightweight and can either be cut or folded back over the heap with ease. There is very little maintenance with this system, the rain runs off the pile efficiently and even in high winds the sheeting stays in place. Our winter maintenance operatives really like DryStore."

For further information contact Gary Neiles on 01606 861850 or email: garyneiles@compassminerals.co.uk