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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2007--Minerals Technologies Inc. (NYSE: MTX) announced today that William "Bill" Wilkins will join the company on June 4, as Vice President, Global Supply Chain & Logistics.

"We are very pleased that a man of Bill's talents and business experience is joining Minerals Technologies," said Joseph C. Muscari, chairman and chief executive officer. "Bill has more than 20 years of operational and financial management in Fortune 500 manufacturing companies and Tier 1 suppliers serving a wide variety of industries. His appointment to head our strategic supply chain and logistics function is a continuation of our effort to establish a solid foundation upon which to move the company in the direction of higher performance through the implementation of sustainable improvement processes."

Mr. Wilkins has a broad range of experience in a variety of different industries. He has worked extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Far East and the United States. In 2006, he founded Management Services, a consultancy specializing in advising corporate and private equity clients on strategy, performance improvement, due diligence and acquisition target selection in the aerospace, defense and industrial sectors. Before starting his consultancy, Mr. Wilkins was president and chief executive officer of Sermatech International Inc., an engineered coatings applicator and specialty process business serving the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries in North America, Europe and Asia. Sermatech had been part of Teleflex Inc. which designs, manufactures and distributes specialty engineered products to a wide range of industries. Mr. Wilkins previously served as vice president and chief financial officer of the Teleflex Aerospace Group before leading the spin off of Sermatech.

Between 1994 and 2002, Mr. Wilkins was with the Howmet Castings Business Unit of Alcoa, where he served as head of finance and administration for the Aluminum Casting Group, and before that group controller, International Operations.

Between 1984 and 1992, Mr. Wilkins served in different financial positions for the Gillette Company, John Hancock Insurance Companies, Dentsply International and CBI Industries.

Mr. Wilkins holds an undergraduate degree in Business Studies from Greenwich University in London and an MBA from Nichols College in Auburn, Massachusetts. He is chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group's International Forum, a member of the International Executive Resource Group and the Aerospace Industries Association.

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 on $1.06 billion million in 2006.

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