Compass Minerals also produces
consumer deicing and water conditioning products, ingredients used in consumer and commercial foods, and other mineral - based products for consumer, agricultural and industrial applications.
Not exact matches
The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for
deicing roads but has many
consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway
deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).
According to the latest available data from the U.S. Geological Survey, during the thirty - year period ending 2012, the production of salt used in highway
deicing and for
consumer and industrial products in the U.S. has increased at an historical average of approximately 1 % per year.
The company's 2014 revenue mix by division was: Highway
Deicing Salt 49 %,
Consumer & Industrial Salt 30 % (water conditioning, table salt, ice control, animal nutrition, plastics, etc.), and Plant Nutrition 21 %.