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Compass Minerals International Inc

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Company Profile

Business Description

Compass Minerals produces two primary products: salt and sulfate of potash, a specialty fertilizer. The company's main assets include rock salt mines in Ontario, Louisiana, and the United Kingdom and salt brine operations at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Compass' salt products are used for deicing and also by industrial and consumer end markets. The firm's fertilizer products are used by growers of high-value crops that are sensitive to standard potash.

Contact
9900 West 109th Street, Suite 100
Overland Park, KS, 66210
T +1 913 344-9200
Sector Basic Materials
Industry Other Industrial Metals & Mining
Most Recent Earnings Mar 31, 2020
Fiscal Year End Dec 31, 2020
Stock Type High Yield
Employees 3,131

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