MTI records better than expected growth in Q1 refractories sales
By Laura Syrett
Published: Friday, 25 April 2014
US-based Minerals Technologies Inc. recorded solid earnings for the first quarter of 2013 from its existing PCC and refractories-focused businesses and is now looking to expand into oilfield markets with bentonite products following its $1.7bn takeover of AMCOL.
US refractory and speciality
minerals company Minerals Technologies
Inc. (MTI) said that its sales of refractory products in
Europe and the Middle East had outperformed expectations during
the first quarter of 2014.
It also outlined what it called “a new chapter in its
21-year history” in its earnings statement for...