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NPK International Inc Formerly Newpark Resources Inc is a diversified supplier providing environmentally-sensitive products, as well as rentals and services to customers across multiple industries. The company has two operating segments: Industrial Solutions and Fluids Systems. Fluids Systems segment which generates the majority of the revenue, provides drilling, completion, and stimulation fluids products and related technical services to customers for oil, natural gas, and geothermal projects. Geographically, the company derives majority of its revenue from the United States and also has its presence in Canada, EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific regions.
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.