AUTOBrine grew out of The Cope Company Salt, founded in 1968 to meet the region’s salt needs, and introduced its patented brine-delivery solution in 1989. Today, the Lancaster, Pennsylvania company helps commercial and industrial facilities replace the manual handling of water-conditioning salt with automated brine systems. AUTOBrine is part of Peak Industries, whose Peak Gives program has returned more than 10% of profits to communities for over 20 years.
US Salt LLCOn the shore of Seneca Lake, US Salt has produced evaporated granulated salt in Watkins Glen since 1893. The company supplies food-grade and USP salt under both branded and private labels, while also serving water-treatment and industrial customers. Its plant uses a multiple-effect vacuum-pan process, with brine drawn from a rich underground salt bed beneath the Finger Lakes site.WILLOW GROVE, PA
American Rock Salt CompanyFounded in 1997, American Rock Salt Company operates the Hampton Corners mine in Western New York, producing American-mined rock salt for winter road de-icing. The mine is the largest producing salt mine in the United States, with daily output ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 tons and distribution across the Northeast. Its story also carries a multigenerational local connection: four generations of the Bucci family have worked in the region’s salt-mining industry.RETSOF, NY
Mid-American SaltServing customers since 2012, Mid-American Salt is a privately held Fort Wayne company known for keeping deicing supplies moving when other suppliers could not. It began by serving commercial snow and ice professionals and now supplies hardware stores, contractors, and municipalities across North America, with logistics and storage operations supporting dependable delivery.TOLEDO, OH
Sears Ecological Applications Company, LLC (SEACO)For more than 75 years, the Sears Companies of Rome, New York, operated oil-distribution facilities before turning their surplus storage capacity toward agricultural-based ice melters in the late 1990s. That shift made Sears Ecological Applications Company (SEACO) a research-driven manufacturer of ICE B’GONE® products for road agencies seeking longer-lasting de-icing with less corrosion. Its work is grounded in patents arising from the company’s discovery that sugars can lower the freeze point of chloride salt.ROME, NY