Return to normalcy
Although the freshly-fallen snow blankets our Salt Institute offices, overall, the North American winter has been mild-to-normal. So it came as no surprise when the Canadian Press headlined "Sifto Salt laying off 80 people at its salt mine in Goderich, Ont." The company explained that it was reducing from 7-days-a-week production to five, normal for this time of year.
All the company's stockpiles are filled to capacity, the Compass Minerals' unit added.
Think back just one year ago, when road agencies were bemoaning the difficulty of obtaining sufficient deicing salt to stay ahead of winter and keep roads safe and passable.
It's a quiet victory, but let's declare the battle won which the salt industry began two years ago in trying to recover from back-to-back severe winters (with record salt sales) which totally depleted supplies from mines to regional stockpiles to customer salt sheds. Perhaps the lessons learned about the need for improved customer on-site storage are beginning to make a difference.
Well done, salt industry.
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