Francois Quentin

Imerys SA is a France-based company that is principally engaged in the extraction and processing of minerals. The Company is organized into four Business Groups: Minerals for Ceramics, Refractories, Abrasives and Foundry, which provides a range of products, such as ceramic bodies for porcelain, raw materials for floor tiles and graphite powders; Materials & Monolithics, producing and distributing roofing and structural products, such as roof tiles, bricks and chimney blocks, as well as monolithic refractories; Pigments for Paper and Packaging, which consists of the Company's activities in kaolin and calcium carbonate for the paper industry and Performance & Filtration Minerals, which deals with the processing of kaolin, carbonates, feldspar, vermiculite and diatomite, among others. It operates through Damolin and PyraMax Ceramics LLC, Kerneos SA and Micron-Ita, among others.