Compass Minerals International Inc

Compass Minerals International, Inc. engages in the production of salt, sulfate of potassium, and magnesium chloride. The company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas and currently employs 1,800 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2003-12-12. The Company’s segments include Salt and Plant Nutrition. The firm's Salt segment provides highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom as well as consumer deicing and water conditioning products, ingredients used in consumer and commercial food preparation, and other salt-based products for consumer, industrial, chemical and agricultural applications in North America. In the United Kingdom, it operates a records management business utilizing excavated areas of its Winsford salt mine with one other location in London, England. The firm's Plant Nutrition segment produces and markets SOP products in various grades worldwide to distributors and retailers of crop inputs, as well as growers and for industrial uses. The company markets its SOP under the trade name Protassium+.