TSI Value - A Member Perspective

Savage Services Corporation

Savage has been a member of TSI since 2003. Owning and operating sulphur handling facilities and transportation assets throughout North America is a large part of our business. We at Savage pride ourselves as a premium services provider in the sulphur industry.

One of the primary reasons for joining and maintaining membership in TSI is the additional knowledge and experience we gain from our membership. Through TSI's global reach and diverse membership, our membership provides us the opportunity to expand our reach in the sulphur business and maintain contact with a global array of sulphur producers, consumers and many other companies that engage in the sulphur business. Most important and valuable to our company has been the ability to share and improve our safety and environmental operating and management practices, which have greatly benefited our company and the overall industry.

Jack Cohn
Vice Chairman - The Sulphur Institute
Sr. Vice President - Sulphur Industry Unit
Savage Services Corporation
Salt Lake City, UT

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The Mosaic Company

The Mosaic Company has been a TSI member for nearly 10 years. Sulphur is a key, strategic raw material our phosphate fertilizer manufacturing process and Mosaic ranks among the world's largest consumers of sulphur at four million tons annually.

An instrumental factor in Mosaic joining TSI is that TSI's membership includes a broad spectrum of entities worldwide that touch all facets of sulphur, inclusive of, but not limited to: producers, consumers, marketers, service providers, transportation/storage/handling entities, consultants, equipment manufacturers, etc. TSI provides us the opportunity to interact with our sulphur colleagues globally to share "best practices" that we can apply within our operations for safe transportation and handling of sulphur and employee safety practices. Through TSI we also stay abreast of important sulphur-related developments that impact our business.

Hermann H. Wittje
Director, Raw Materials
The Mosaic Company
Lithia, Florida, USA

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Jupiter Sulphur LLC

Having come from the production side of the sulphur industry I find the frequent historical data sent out by the staff at The Sulphur Institute invaluable as I expand my knowledge of the sulphur industry. Beyond the excellent information, the opportunity provided by the TSI to meet others working in sulphur related fields has been a significant help to me.

Greg Roggentine
Vice President & General Manager
Jupiter Sulphur, LLC
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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Uralchem

URALCHEM is one of the largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers in Russia and the CIS and is the #2 ammonium nitrate producer in the world. For our company joining such a progressive and reputable organization like TSI is an important and significant step. TSI represents its members' interests with national regulatory bodies all over the world. It makes the sulphur advocacy truly global.

The growing shortage of soil-based sulphur is currently a major problem of the agricultural sector. Being aware of the problem of sulphur deficiency, URALCHEM has been consistently expanding its line-up of sulphur-containing products to meet the needs of the market. Now being a member of TSI, URALCHEM will be able to offer enhanced sulphur-containing fertilisers to the consumers in the key regions where the company has a presence, utilizing the independent results of TSI demonstrating yield and economic improvement with sulphur fertilizers. We're really looking forward to long-term and fruitful cooperation with TSI.

Elizaveta Polotnyanschikova
Marketing Director
URALCHEM
Moscow, Russia

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Jupiter Sulphur LLC

From my perspective The Sulphur Institute provided value to my little business for several reasons: I appreciated the fact that sulphur could be a misunderstood element and product. The Institute provides an uncommonly effective vehicle to allow ALL the sulphur industry stakeholders to come forward with a common voice. In concert with this, the advocacy and the bringing of sense to bear as it relates to regulation and governmental intervention is a good thing for every company that touches the industry. My affiliation with the Institute and the need as a member for active involvement provided an opportunity to work toward logical goals and conclusions which have often helped form the basis for governmental (globally) involvement in our industry. Since I believe that it is incumbent on sulphur industry stakeholders to bring something positive to the industry as a whole. It was important for me to be actively engaged as part of the solution rather than as a bystander. My membership in the Institute provided that vehicle for involvement.

In my mind the program that brings the most value to sulphur industry stakeholders is the Environmental Health and Safety working group. Although it is difficult to actually put monetary values on human life and safety, that working group has done more to draw focus to what is truly important, than any group in any venue, that I have ever been affiliated with. I am proudest of the accomplishments and learnings that that group has freely shared not only equitably among the membership which range from the largest corporations in the world to small affiliates like me, that are normally fierce competitors in their focus markets, but also openly to and anxiously shared across the full industry regardless of membership affiliation.

Finally, as a small producer with little prestige from a corporate standpoint my affiliation in the Institute gave me access to the mind and thought process to the larger producers. It gave me a forum wherein regardless of anything else I was given a level playing ground on which to interface. There is no better opportunity for networking throughout the complete spectrum of the industry than membership and active involvement in The Sulphur Institute.

Kevin Boltz
Jupiter Sulphur, LLC and Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc.
TSI chair 2008-2009
Phoenix, Arizona, USA