:: Mineral Technologies Aquires Polar Minerals

Minerals Technologies Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Barretts Minerals Inc., has acquired the business and assets of Polar Minerals Inc., a privately owned producer of industrial minerals in the Midwest United States. Polar Minerals operations will be incorporated into the company's Specialty Minerals Segment.

Polar Minerals has mineral processing plants in Wellsville, Ohio, and Mount Vernon, Indiana. These two plants process high quality mineral ores into performance minerals for the plastics, paint, adhesives and sealants, rubber and cosmetics industries. Polar's products include talc, ground calcium carbonate, barytes and mica.