Sifto Canada
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| Industry | Salt Mining and marketing |
| Founded | 1866 |
| Headquarters | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
Key people | Fran Malecha, CEO |
| Products | salt |
Number of employees | 800 [1] |
| Website |
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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, and highway deicing 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]
Facilities
In addition to distribution facilities across the country, Sifto Canada operates the following production facilities:[4][5]
- Rock Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario
- Mechanical Evaporation Plant in Unity, Saskatchewan (built in 1949 with a staff of 60) [6]
- Mechanical Evaporation Plant in Goderich, Ontario
- Mechanical Evaporation Plant in Amherst, Nova Scotia
Annual production capacity of the Goderich salt mine is 9,000,000 tons per year of salt while the Evaporation plants in Goderich, Unity, and Amherst have the capacity to produce a total of more than 420,000 tons.[7]
See also
- Canadian Salt Company - maker of Windsor Salt and Canadian rival and owned by Morton Salt of the United States
References
- ↑ http://www.profilecanada.com/companydetail.cfm?company=175200_Sifto_Canada_Inc_Mississauga_ON
- ↑ "Sifto Canada Corp. - Complete Profile - Company Directories". Industry Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ↑ "Sifto Canada Corp. - June 2009 - The Canadian Business Journal". George Media Network. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ↑ "Sifto Canada - Locations". Sifto Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
- ↑ "List of Mining and Mineral Processing Operations in Canada - Salt". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
- ↑ "Town of Unity, Saskatchewan - Unity and District Chamber of Commerce". Town of Unity. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
- ↑ "Salt In Canada". Sifto Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-09.