Compass Minerals Offers Q4 Highway Deicing Sales Volume, Regional Weather Data

Compass Minerals

has published its fourth-quarter 2012 highway deicing sales volume and regional weather data on its website at www.compassminerals.com/marketdata. Compass Minerals' highway deicing sales volume, which includes all highway maintenance products sold in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., as well as rock salt sold to the chemical industry, totaled approximately 2.3 million tons in the three months ended December 2012 compared with sales of 2.7 million tons in the 2011 quarter. The year-over-year decline was the result of high customer carry-over inventories following last season's mild winter and continued mild weather early this season. Eleven representative cities in the company's primary North American highway deicing service area reported a total of 36 snow events during the period compared with 16 events in the same cities in the fourth quarter of 2011. However, the number of snow events in the 2012 quarter was 22 percent below the ten-year average of 46 events.