Sentences with phrase «highway deicing»

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

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.

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.

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 %.

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.

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).