The company now has 17 agreements with paper mills that have adopted the unique FulFill® E-325 technology introduced in late 2010, which provides papermakers significant cost savings in reduced fiber consumption. The FulFill® brand allows papermakers to increase loading levels of precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), which replaces higher cost pulp, and increases PCC usage.
PCC is a specialty pigment for filling and coating high-quality paper.
"We continue to gain ground with paper companies interested in cost savings by replacing expensive fiber with more PCC," said Joseph C. Muscari, chairman and CEO. "We are very pleased that this paper company has adopted our technology, which further verifies its effectiveness and our commitment to advance our technological leadership with papermakers around the globe. We now have commercial agreements with papermakers in Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and South Africa and are actively engaged with an additional 21 paper mills worldwide."
Minerals Technologies Inc. is a resource- and technology-based growth company that develops, produces and markets worldwide a broad range of specialty mineral, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products and related systems and services.
