US salt industries experience a productive winter

摘要

US salt producers are running at high operating rates to guarantee deicing road salt supply to cities which have been hit by the harsh winter. Greg Norris, plant manager for US salt producer, American Rock Salt, told WXXI that "its going to become a very productive and very busy winter for us here at the salt mine." Norris said that the company, which is the largest producing underground salt mine in the country, is producing between 14,000 and 20,000 tpd of rock salt.