Minerals Technologies Inc investor relations material

Minerals Technologies Inc. is a global resource- and technology-based company that develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services. The company operates through three segments: Performance Materials, Specialty Minerals and Refractories.The performance materials segment is engaged in the supply of bentonite and bentonite-related products for foundry molds and iron ore pelletizing; leonardite; synthetic iron oxide; color pigments; filler materials, such as precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) and ground limestone products; strontium sulfate; distillers' dry grains with solubles (DDGs); and catalysts.The specialty minerals segment operates in the global paper industry, producing precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), ground calcium carbonate (GCC), quicklime production facilities, soda ash mining operations in Wyoming, China's largest soda ash mine in Inner Mongolia, a light magnesium carbonate plant in France that uses a proprietary process developed by the company to produce ultralight magnesium carbonates from waste salts generated from steel pickling processes.