Phosphate
All monetary amounts are in US dollars.
All units of measure are English.
Cincinnati
Operations
Cincinnati produces blended solutions of purified acid products, including food and technical grades of diluted phosphoric acid, monoaluminum phosphate and metal finishing solutions.
Annual capacity — 50,000 tons per year of phosphate products for food and technical applications
Performance
Significant Events
- Met or exceeded all safety goals set for 2009; completed a third year with no lost-time injuries, including everyone who comes on site
- Focused on quality control by establishing a program on hazard analysis
- Initiated the process to become ISO 9001 certified, targeted to be achieved in 2010
- Began a program of mock product recalls to test readiness to respond to product safety concerns
- Achieved more than 10 years without a hazardous material spill
- Completed significant capital improvements, including construction of a new administration building, improvements in water purification for process uses and improvements in storm water and process wastewater treatment
- Achieved a 4.1 out of 5 on first community opinion survey
Community Relations
- Continued to report news about the facility’s operations at quarterly Community Action Panel (CAP) meetings, including results of the community opinion survey
Community Donations
- Contributed $6,400 to local organizations, including the Greater Cincinnati United Way, Crosby Elementary School, Harrison High School, Ross High School and Crosby Township
- Contributed more than $800 in in-kind donations to Harrison Community, Crosby Elementary School and the local Community Advisory Panel
Educational Initiatives
- Supported grade and high school programs and sponsored a "LEAP" award that provided 12 savings bonds in 2009 to students at Crosby Elementary School who exhibited excellent effort and improvement each semester
Awards
- Received the Greater Cincinnati Safety Council 100% Award for excellent safety performance
Energy and Environment
- Installed new equipment to upgrade the facility’s water treatment system, which is designed to keep process water within permitted discharge limits for copper, zinc and total suspended solids
- Initiated efforts to reduce waste by measuring and monitoring non-hazardous wastes generated at the facility
Local Procurement
- Made local purchases in 2009 of $3.4 million, or 71 percent of total expenditures (excluding major expansions, raw materials, energy and transportation)
| Cincinnati | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source: PotashCorp | |||||
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Annual Production (000 tons) | |||||
| Acid phosphates | 19.2 | 19.0 | 19.3 | 20.2 | 15.8 |
| Specialty phosphates | 12.8 | 12.3 | 12.4 | 10.4 | 7.2 |
| Employment | |||||
| # of employees | 19 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 21 |
| Gender ratio (% female/total employees) | 10.5 | 10.5 | 10.0 | 13.6 | 14.3 |
| Average tenure (years) | 18 | 18 | 17.6 | 13.0 | 14.2 |
| Absenteeism rate (% hours absent) | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 |
| Employee training (hrs per employee) | 47 | 21 | 21 | 30 | 37 |
| Safety Performance | |||||
| Lost-time frequency (per 200,000 hrs) | — | 4.8 | — | — | — |
| Recordable frequency (per 200,000 hrs) | 5.2 | 14.3 | — | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Greenhouse Gas Emissions | |||||
| GHG emissions (000 tons) | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Criteria/Significant Air Pollutants (tons) | |||||
| Nitrogen oxides | 2.6 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
| Carbon monoxide | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| Water Use (million gallons) | |||||
| Water withdrawn | 9.1 | 9.9 | 11.1 | 15.5 | 14.1 |
| Environmental Expenditures ($ 000) | |||||
| Operating expenditures | 72.8 | 148.2 | 172.9 | 145.3 | 163.6 |
| Capital expenditures | — | — | — | — | 904.0 |
| Energy | |||||
| Energy costs ($ million) | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
| Energy use (BBtu) | 54 | 54 | 55 | 52 | 48 |
| Procurement | |||||
| Local purchasing ($ million) | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 3.4 |
