Sentences with phrase «deicing salt»

They make most of their money producing and selling road deicing salt for use in cold snowy climates.

The company provides highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom and specialty fertilizer to growers worldwide.

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 %.

Weather during the four quarter of 2015 was the warmest in at least a decade, so it's no surprise there was less demand for deicing salt.

The study is the first to demonstrate that the animals can rapidly evolve higher tolerance to road salt, and indicates that freshwater ecosystems may possess some resilience in the face of a 50-fold increase in road deicing salt applications since the 1940s.

Sand, gravel, coal, deicing salt or diamonds, grain, sugar, coffee or grapes and waste — a lot of everyday goods are more or less grainy.

And he says he supports legislation to prevent the fracking waste water to be spread on roads for dust control or as deicing salt.

And lots of deicing salt too.

Not exact matches

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

The use of deicing road salts has increased from.28 million metric tons per year in the 1940s to over 16 million metric tons per year today.

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.

First, an economical substitute for rock salt would potentially impact almost half of CMP's business (highway deicing = 49 % of sales), which is not very well diversified.

They reorder as their supply is used, which can significantly shift the supply - demand dynamic in favor of salt producers during extreme winter weather events — CMP's average price on awarded highway deicing contracts rose by 25 % in 2014 as a result.

As of today, there are no known cost - effective substitutes for most high - volume uses of salt, including deicing.

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A 2014 U.S. Geological Survey study concluded: «Average chloride concentrations often exceed toxic levels in many northern United States streams due to the use of salt to deice winter pavement, and the frequency of these occurrences nearly doubled in two decades.»