Minerals Technologies Inc. (“MTI”) has signed an agreement with Shouguang Meilun Paper Co., Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings Ltd. to build a 150,000 metric ton per year satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (“PCC”) plant at its paper mill in Shouguang, China. The facility will be operated by a newly created joint venture with Chenming Paper in China. This is MTI’s ninth satellite in China, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
“We are very pleased that Chenming Paper has selected Minerals Technologies as their partner to construct and operate a satellite PCC plant that will provide our technology for their paper machine at Shouguang,” said Douglas T. Dietrich, CEO. “This agreement demonstrates the value that PCC continues to bring to papermakers and advances our growth in the Chinese paper market.”
This facility is scheduled to begin operation in the second half of 2019.
PCC is a specialty pigment for filling and coating high-quality paper.
Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) 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.
