Minerals Technologies is a resource- and technology-based company. Co. has three reportable segments: Performance Materials, which is a global supplier of a range of bentonite-based and synthetic materials for consumer-oriented and industrial markets and for non-residential construction, environmental remediation, and infrastructure projects; Specialty Minerals, which produces and sells the synthetic mineral product precipitated calcium carbonate and processed mineral product quicklime, and mines mineral ores then processes and sells natural mineral products, primarily limestone and talc; and Refractories, which produces monolithic and shaped refractory materials and specialty products.