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Joplin

Box 225, 301 State Line Avenue, Joplin, Missouri 64802 | (417) 624-5225
Paul Shoup, Operations Manager | E-mail Paul

Operations

This animal feed ingredients plant produces dicalcium phosphate (DCP) and monocalcium phosphate (MCP) feed supplements, with annual capacity of 180 thousand tons.

Significant Achievements

Joplin maintained its certification by the American Feed Industry Association Safe Feed/Safe Food program.

Employees achieved five years without a lost-time injury and worked through 2006 without a recordable injury.

Community Support

Cash donations to local community organizations totaled $8,739. McKinley Elementary School, the United Way of Southwest Missouri, St. John's Hospice walk, Newspapers in Education and the National FFA Week promotion were the main recipients.

McKinley Elementary School was the beneficiary of the site's in-kind donations.

Awards

Joplin received a Platinum Award from the United Way of Southwest Missouri for employee contributions and a Product Stewardship Award from the BNSF Railroad for performance in 2005.

Environmental Initiatives

Secondary containment was added around the acid storage tanks.

Local Procurement

In 2006, the value of goods, materials and services purchased locally (excluding raw materials and energy) totaled $1.2 million. This represented 52 percent of all procurement.

Performance Trends – Joplin
  2003 2004 2005 2006
Annual Production (000 tons)
Dicalcium/monocalcium phosphate 95.9 95.9 88.2 90.4
Employment
Number of employees 35 33 26 24
Number of female employees 3 3 2 2
Gender ratio (% female/total employees) 9 9 8 8
Average tenure (years) 15.4 16.6 15.1 14.4
Absenteeism rate (% hours absent) 1.8 3.4 1.7 2.0
Employee training provided (hours per employee) 24 18 26 28
Safety Performance (per 200,000 hours)
Lost-time frequency 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Recordable frequency 8.47 0.00 3.80 0.00
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
GHG emissions (000 tons CO2 equivalent) 22.8 22.5 19.7 19.9
Normalized GHGs (GHGs/ton production) 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Criteria/Significant Air Pollutants (tons)
Nitrogen oxides 9.5 6.6 1.5 1.3
Carbon monoxide 7.7 5.3 1.2 1.6
Particulates (dust) 39.5 18.4 17.1 17.6
Sulfur dioxide 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Waste (tons)
Solid waste 0.0 8.2 8.3 9.8
Water Used (million gallons)
Water withdrawn n/a 39.2 23.9 25.4
Water recycled 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Environmental Expenditures ($000)
Operating expenditures 141.5 94.4 63.2 31.2
Capital expenditures 1,114.5 942.0 0.0 356.4
Energy
Energy costs ($ million) 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.3
Energy used (000 MMBtus/ton production) 170.9 166.6 137.6 138.3
Energy Efficiency (MMBtus/ton production) 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5
Procurement ($ million)
Local purchasing 1.5 1.6 0.5 1.2
n/a = not available
Source: PotashCorp
PCS Joplin