GSM vs CMP Comparison

Ferroglobe PLC provides silicon-based alloys and specialty metals. It produces silicon metal and silicon and manganese-based alloy, serving customers in the specialty chemical, aluminum, solar, steel, and ductile iron foundry industries. The company's business segments include North America- Silicon, North America -Silicon Alloys; Europe Manganese; Europe Silicon Metals; Europe -Silicon Alloys, South Africa Silicon Metals, South Africa-Silicon Alloys, and Other segments The primary raw materials company uses to produce its electrometallurgy products includes its coal and quartz mining operations and its silicon metal and ferroalloy production.

Compass Minerals currently produces two primary products: salt and specialty potash fertilizer. The company's main assets include rock salt mines in Ontario, Louisiana, and the United Kingdom. The fertilizer is produced from a brine operation at the Great Salt Lake in Utah that produces sulfate of potash and magnesium chloride. Compass' salt products are used for deicing and also by industrial and consumer end markets. The firm's sulfate of potash is used by growers of high-value crops that are sensitive to standard potash.