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Cargill’s Newark and Redwood City production facilities on the edge of San Francisco Bay make salt for a wide variety of customers within the Western United States -- from food producers such as the Alaskan fishing fleet to California’s tomato canners, cheese makers, industrial bakeries, and potato chip factories. Much of Cargill’s salt is sold at home improvement, hardware, grocery, and convenience store retailers. During the winter, salt melts the ice on Sierra highways; even more goes to water conditioning dealers.
Cargill Salt produces, packages and ships salt for six major market segment applications: agricultural, food, water conditioning, industrial, chemical, and packaged ice control.
While Cargill Salt makes over 1,000 different salt products/package sizes for markets nationally, its Newark refinery produces and distributes 250 sku coded packages. These include the Diamond Crystal® branded household consumer food and water softener salt products, Champions Choice® branded agricultural products for animal feed, and Cargill® branded specialty salt products for food manufacturing customers.
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Cargill Salt is the largest marketer of salt in the world, operating more than 20 manufacturing, processing, and warehousing locations, in North and South America. Salt is produced three ways: through solar evaporation and harvesting from ponds in Newark and Redwood City, (and those in Oklahoma, Utah, Bonaire in the Dutch Antilles and Venezuela); by rock salt mining from underground mines in Louisiana, New York, and Ohio, and by mechanical evaporation facilities within the Newark refinery, (and at similar plants in Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, and Ohio).
Cargill Salt is a business unit of Cargill, Incorporated, an international
provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services.
With 149,000 employees in 63 countries, the company is committed to
using its knowledge and experience to collaborate with customers to
help them succeed.
Banner photo credit: Tony Williams
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