Sifto Canada

Sifto Canada, Sifto Salt, or simply Sifto Salt 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 Canada Corporation
Typesubsidiary
IndustrySalt Mining and marketing
Founded1866
HeadquartersMississauga, Ontario, Canada
Key people
Fran Malecha, CEO
Productssalt
Number of employees
800 [1]
Websitewww.siftocanada.com

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. Sifto Canada was formed in 1950 and the company was acquired by the United States chemical company Compass Minerals in the 1990s. The Goderich mine 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]

The Goderich salt mine has a production capacity of 9 million tons per year, and produces 7,250,000 tons per year, while the evaporation plants in Goderich, Unity, and Amherst have the capacity to produce a total of more than 470,000 tons.[7]

Sifto Salt Mine and processing plant in Goderich, Ontario Canada

See also

References
  1. Profile Canada: Sifto Canada Inc.
  2. "Sifto Canada Corp. - Complete Profile - Company Directories". Industry Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  3. "Sifto Canada Corp. - June 2009 - The Canadian Business Journal". George Media Network. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
  4. "Sifto Canada - Locations". Sifto Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  5. "List of Mining and Mineral Processing Operations in Canada - Salt". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  6. "Town of Unity, Saskatchewan - Unity and District Chamber of Commerce". Town of Unity. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
  7. "Salt In Canada". Sifto Canada. Retrieved 2011-02-09.
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