Tips and Tricks for Storing and Saving Ice Melt Products

Long before the first snowflakes fall, distributors and their customers begin clearing warehouse space and preparing to place orders for winter storm supplies. While it can be difficult to think about ice melt when temperatures are upward of 90 degrees, summer is the ideal time to calculate inventory needs and preorder product, say suppliers.

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Glen Huizenga, senior sales leader for Nichols, a division of Imperial Dade in Norton Shores, Michigan, typically works with his ice melt supplier in July or August to determine a pre-season price package. Once he seals the deal, he creates a flyer for his sales team to pre-sell ice melt to customers with delivery slated for late October or early November.