(Source: Canadian Pacific Railway press release, March 15, 2012)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) today announced a multi-year agreement with Unimin Corporation of New Canaan, Connecticut, for the movement of frac sand from Unimin’s facility in Wisconsin.
Unimin Corporation is North America’s leading producer of industrial minerals. The facility, the Company’s newest and most productive, will open in 2013 in Tunnel City, Wisconsin and will produce two million tons of frac sand annually for energy markets in North Dakota, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere.
Under the agreement CP will become the exclusive rail service provider at this facility for the movement of frac sand to Unimin Corporation’s destination markets.