Compass Minerals Reinforces Commitment to Safe, Reliable Winter Road Salt Supply Across North America

As winter weather continues across North America, Compass Minerals reaffirms its commitment to delivering essential deicing salt safely and reliably to its customers throughout Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.

Each winter season, road salt plays a critical yet often unseen role in supporting public safety and mobility during snow and ice events. For decades, Compass Minerals has supplied municipalities and transportation agencies with deicing salt, leveraging its extensive production network, including mines in Goderich, Ontario; Cote Blanche, Louisiana; and Winsford, Cheshire.

This season, with winter arriving earlier and bringing more severe conditions than in recent seasons, demand across the entire road salt supply chain is elevated. During this period of high demand, the company continues to work diligently to fulfill all current orders while prioritizing shipments for municipal customers. Compass Minerals remains focused on safely maximizing daily output from its mines and moving product as efficiently as possible to support optimal, full-season inventory availability across its network.

At the core of Compass Minerals' North American supply network is its Goderich mine in Ontario, the largest underground salt mine in the world. Teams at the site operate 24/7 to supply road salt to customers across the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway regions. Shipments are strategically managed to meet demand in both Canada and the northern U.S., moving via vessels that call on ports in both countries, as well as hundreds of truckloads each day delivering to customers throughout the served markets.

Ongoing winter conditions continue to create unique supply chain challenges, including narrower shipping windows as lake ice has the potential to limit vessel mobility. Despite these constraints, Compass Minerals' operations and logistics teams seek to maximize available transportation capacity while maintaining high efficiency and safety standards across the network.

Salt produced in Goderich is also transported to the nearby Compass Minerals' Goderich plant, where deicing salt products are packaged for retail distribution across North America.

With more than 1,800 employees and 12 production and packaging sites across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., Compass Minerals is proud of the role it plays in supporting winter safety. Even with this season's weather-driven increase in demand, the company remains focused on meeting its contractual commitments and will continue prioritizing municipal needs while fulfilling active orders.

Compass Minerals remains fully committed to supporting its customers and helping protect the safety of citizens throughout the markets it serves.