ICL Boulby said increased production has resulted in new vacancies and apprenticeships for its 200-hectare polyhalite mine in North Yorkshire.
VACANCIES
General manager and vice president Andrew Fulton said that the company had completed its first shipment of 25,000 tonnes of polysulphate to India, and contracts totalling more than a million tonnes for customers in the Ukraine, Poland, China and Spain.
“I am pleased that as numbers return to pre-Covid levels we are also recruiting to fill vacancies across a range of roles.
“In addition, we are beginning the process of creating nine apprenticeship opportunities, following on from six who joined us a year ago.
“At a time when every aspect of the economy has been under such pressure, I believe we can be greatly encouraged both by our ability to maintain and now enhance production and our success in breaking into new markets.”
BOULBY MINE
ICL Boulby is the world’s first and only producer of the multi-nutrient mineral polyhalite, which is marketed as Polysulphate, and used by farmers in the UK and exported to five continents.
Rock salt is extracted as a by-product and used across the region’s roads as a de-icing agent.
Boulby Mine is also the site of the Boulby Underground Laboratory 3,600 feet (1,100 m) below the surface.
The mine is run by Cleveland Potash Ltd which is now a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL) now known as ICL Group Ltd.