K+S Windsor Salt

Windsor Salt
Industry	Salt Mining
Predecessor	K+S Windsor Salt; Windsor Salt Company; The Canadian Salt Company Limited;
Founded	1893
Headquarters	Pointe-Claire, Quebec
Number of locations	Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan
Area served	Canada
Key people	Mark Demetree, CEO
Products	salt mining and refining
Number of employees	861
Parent	Morton Salt
Website	Windsor Salt

Windsor Salt is a salt mining, processing, and distribution company based in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada.^[1] It operates salt mines in Pugwash, Nova Scotia (the Windsor Salt Pugwash Mine) and Windsor, Ontario (the Windsor salt mine).^[2] From the salt it mines and produces through evaporative processes, it produces and distributes products for household use, food production, as well as products for agricultural, commercial, and industrial use. Government agencies use a number of its products for ice control on roads in the winter.

The company was previously named The Windsor Salt Company and The Canadian Salt Company, Limited (French: La Société Canadienne de Sel Limitée).

History and company information[]

K+S Windsor Salt was founded in 1893 as The Windsor Salt Company by three employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was also known as The Canadian Salt Company, Limited (French: La Société Canadienne de Sel Limitée) for a time. Since 1954, it has been owned by Morton Salt, which in turn is owned by German chemical company K+S, and the company is Canada's largest salt manufacturer.

The company is headquartered in Pointe-Claire, Quebec.^[3] It employs 861 people in its three regional sales offices, three evaporated salt plants, three rock salt mines, and throughout a network of warehouses and salt storage facilities.

Products[]

K+S Windsor Salt recovers, processes, imports, and distributes over 200 evaporated and rock salt products under multiple brand names, including Windsor, Safe-T-Salt and Fino. The company's evaporated salt products (salt recovered from brine) are used in household and food products, as well as for agricultural, water softening and industrial purposes. Those made from mined rock salt are also sold to household and industrial markets for ice control, and to the water softening and general industrial trades. Government agencies are among the largest users of K+S Windsor Salt's products for highway ice control.

References[]

^ Company, Canadian Salt (1928). The Windsor Salt Freakies : a Picture Book and the Story of Windsor Table Salt. Canadian Salt Company.
^ Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada, and of Its Crystalline Rocks. Sent to the London International Exhibition for 1862. Lovell. 1862. Windsor Salt.
^ Scott’s Directories, 2007 Manufacturer 50th Anniversary Edition (2007, Toronto, Division Big Directories) pg 2-876

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[1] Company, Canadian Salt (1928). The Windsor Salt Freakies : a Picture Book and the Story of Windsor Table Salt. Canadian Salt Company.

[2] Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada, and of Its Crystalline Rocks. Sent to the London International Exhibition for 1862. Lovell. 1862. Windsor Salt.

[3] Scott’s Directories, 2007 Manufacturer 50th Anniversary Edition (2007, Toronto, Division Big Directories) pg 2-876

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