| Type | subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Salt Mining and marketing |
| Founded | 1866 |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Key people | Keith Clark, President |
| Products | salt, sulfate of potash |
| Employees | 800 [1] |
| Website | Sifto Canada |
Sifto Canada is a salt mining and marketing company based in Canada, with its primary products being table salt, fine evaporated salt, water conditioning salt, agricultural salt, coarse salt, rock salt, and bulk salt.[2] Sifto Canada is wholly owned by Compass Minerals.
Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour on Lake Huron. That developed into the largest salt mine in Canada and remains a key source of salt for the company.[3]
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In addition to distribution facilities across the country Sifto Canada operates the following production facilities:[4][5]
Annual production from the Goderich salt mine is 7,250,000 tons per year of salt while the Evaporation plants in Goderich, Unity, and Amherst produce a total of more than 470,000 tons.[8] Annual production form the Big Quill Lake facility in Wynyard, Saskatchewan is 40,000 tons of sulphate of potash.[9]