Saturday, May 9, 2020

Kaysalt limited factory: where is it and how does it operate?

Well, my understanding is that the Kaysalt Limited (Krystalline Salt Limited) factory is in Gongoni, around Malindi. So if you want to get to the actual place where Kaysalt comes from, you need to travel to Mombasa, then from Mombasa you travel to Malindi and then from Malindi you travel to a place called Gongoni. Nowadays I think trucks ferrying salt from Gongoni to upcountry locations have the option of bypassing Mombasa city, by going through the Mavueni road (although I don't if the kaloleni mavueni road was built for such kind of traffic). So anyway from Nairobi they turn left at Mariakani, then travel all the way to Kaloleni, and on to Mavueni kilifi, onto to Malindi and finally on to Gongoni. 
Gongoni is on the Malindi Lamu road, and you can’t possibly miss the Krystalline Salt/Kaysalt limited as it is one of the most imposing edifices on that road. As you approach the Krystalline Salt company, you are likely to notice a big white ‘mountain’ of a white substance which I guess is the salt undergoing processing at the plant. You are also likely to see the salt fields, as some of them are quite close to the highway. Then as you approach the Krystalline Salt limited factory gate, you will find lots of big trucks from all over east Africa coming to pick salt supplies.
Although there have been some controversies, I have no doubt that Krystaline Salt Limited has contributed greatly to the economy of Gongoni and Malindi area as a whole. It has helped in diversifying the economy of malindi from being purely fishing and tourism based to include an aspect of manufacturing/processing, creating quite a number of high quality jobs in the process.

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