美国矿物技术集团是世界领先的环保技术和解决方案供应商,也是世界上最大的轻质碳酸钙生产商和膨润土生产商。公司拥有逾150年历史,总部设在美国纽约,于1992年在纽约证交所上市。2014年,美国矿物技术集团以17亿美元收购了另一家在特殊矿产和功能材料方面全球领先的供应商唯科国际公司(AMCOL)。这一收购进一步强化了该集团在其领域的全球领先地位。
Minerals Technologies Inc. is a 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 has five reportable segments: Specialty Minerals, Refractories, Performance Materials, Construction Technologies and Energy Services.
The Specialty Minerals segment produces and sells the synthetic mineral product, precipitated calcium carbonate ("PCC"), and processed mineral product quicklime ("lime"), and mines mineral ores then processes and sells natural mineral products, primarily limestone and talc. This segment's products are used principally in the paper, building materials, paint and coatings, glass, ceramic, polymer, food, automotive and pharmaceutical industries.