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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 2, 2008--Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MTX) announced today that Daniel Skrovanek, Ph.D., will join the company as vice president, The Americas, Paper PCC. Mr. Skrovanek will fill the role vacated by D.J. Monagle, who recently moved to the position of vice president and managing director, Performance Minerals.

Mr. Skrovanek joins Minerals Technologies from Bayer MaterialScience LLC, where he spent 18 years in a variety of technical, marketing and general management roles of increasing responsibility. His most recent roles at Bayer MaterialScience were as vice president and general manager of the NAFTA region, where he was responsible for the $100 million thermoplastic polyurethane business, and prior to that was vice president, Elastomers Marketing, where he managed the sales and marketing of a $300 million business. Mr. Skrovanek began his career in basic research for PPG Industries.

Mr. Skrovanek holds a doctorate from Penn State University in Polymer Science, as well as a Master of Business Administration from Robert Morris University.

Minerals Technologies Inc. is a global 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. The company recorded sales of $1.06 billion in 2006.

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