Specialty Minerals Inc.

Specialty Minerals Inc. (SMI) has a knack for developing industrial minerals and chemicals for the paper, coatings, building materials, ceramic, glass, polymer, and food industries. Its primary product is precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), which brightens and whitens paper, teeth, and paint.In addition to the paper industry, pharmaceutical companies also are big users of PCC (as a buffering agent in tablets). SMI operates54 PCC plantsin 16 countries. Other mineral products made by SMI include quicklime, limestone, and talc. SMI is a subsidiary of Minerals Technologies, accounting for about two-thirds of its parent's annual sales.

Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers; Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying; Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers; Other Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing; Basic Chemical Manufacturing

Lumber, Plywood, and Millwork; Mining and Quarrying of Nonmetallic Minerals, Except Fuels; Chemicals and Allied Products, Nec; Chemical Preparations, Nec; Industrial Inorganic Chemicals

$722.23M