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April 22, 2008

35% jump in highway sales leads to strong Morton Salt quarterly earnings

Rohm and Haas, parent to Morton Salt has announced a 16% sales increase to $2.507 billion for the first quarter of the year. Morton Salt sales totalled $411 million, up 28%,

driven by increased demand as a result of favorable weather conditions for the business. Sales for ice-control use increased 35 percent versus the prior-year period, while strong sales growth also continued in non-ice applications.

Pretax earnings were up 43% to $67 million due to "(f)avorable weather conditions resulting in above-average demand for ice-control salt, volume gains in the consumer and industrial markets, the favorable impact of currencies and higher selling prices."

Posted by Dick Hanneman at 11:31 PM |

April 07, 2008

Call for Papers: 9th International Symposium on Salt -- Beijing, September 4-7, 2009

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The 9th International Symposium on Salt now has an active website and has issued a Call for Papers. Deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008.

The meeting, themed with the Salt Institute slogan (and film title) "Salt: The Essence of Life," will be held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. It is being sponsored and organized by Salt Institute member China National Salt Industry Corporation. The Salt Institute is co-sponsoring, along with the Indian Salt Manufacturers Association and the Solution Mining Research Institute.

Topics for which papers are invited include the following:

  • 1. Reduction of Energy Consumption in Salt Production

  • 2. Salt Production Safety

  • 3. Salt Sources and Occurrences

  • 4. Salt Extraction

  • 5. Rock Salt

  • 6. Evaporated Salt

  • 7. Sea/lake/Solar Salt

  • 8. Salt Byproducts

  • 9. Salt Processing, Analysis and Quality Assurance

  • 10. Salt Markets and Applications

  • 11. New Applications

  • 12. Applications of New Technologies and Equipments

  • 13. Salt and the Environment

  • 14. Salt and Health

  • 15. Iodized Salt for IDD Elimination

  • 16. Salt and History (Salt and Culture)

    • Keep a watch on the website as the program develops.

    Posted by Dick Hanneman at 11:40 AM |