Paul R. Saueracker Elected President of Minerals Technologies; Anton Dulski Named Executive Vice President.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 2000

The Board of Directors of Minerals Technologies Inc. today announced the election of Paul R. Saueracker as president of the company. Mr. Saueracker was also elected to the Board.

Anton Dulski was appointed executive vice president of Minerals Technologies Inc.

Mr. Saueracker is senior vice president of Minerals Technologies Inc. and president and chief executive officer of Specialty Minerals Inc. Mr. Dulski is senior vice president of Minerals Technologies Inc. and president and chief executive officer of MINTEQ International Inc. Specialty Minerals Inc. and MINTEQ International Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries of Minerals Technologies Inc.

Jean-Paul Valles, chairman and chief executive officer of Minerals Technologies Inc., explained that the moves are the next step in the plan to ready the organization for his retirement as chief executive officer at the end of the year. "My goal is to ensure that the organization is prepared for the succession over a period of time and that there will be no major surprises when I leave," he said.

Mr. Saueracker joined the company in 1971 in Los Angeles as a sales representative. In 1973, he moved to New York where he became a Market Research analyst and later, manager of Market Research. He assumed positions of increasing responsibility including director-Sales & Marketing, and, in 1989, vice president-Sales & Marketing. He was named president of Specialty Minerals Inc. in 1994, and was appointed senior vice president of Minerals Technologies Inc. in October 1999.

Mr. Saueracker holds a BA in Geology from Hunter College of the City University of New York, a MS in Geology from the University of Kansas, and a MBA in marketing from Hofstra University. Mr. Saueracker is past president of the Pulverized Minerals Division of the National Stone Association and a member of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry and of the Paper Industry Management Association. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Paper Science and Technology in Atlanta.

Anton Dulski joined the refractories business of the company in 1968. In 1970, he was appointed Marketing manager for Eastern Europe, based in Germany. In 1975, after successfully establishing the Eastern European market for the company, Mr. Dulski returned to the United States as Marketing director for North America, Eastern Europe and Germany. He was elected president of the refractory business in Japan in 1983 and was later given the responsibility for the total Asian market. During this successful nine-year period Mr. Dulski lived in Tokyo, Japan. He was next appointed vice president of MINTEQ European Operations, and, in 1996, he became president and chief executive officer of MINTEQ International Inc. He was appointed senior vice president of Minerals Technologies Inc. in October 1999.

Mr. Dulski received his BS in International Relations from the University of Munich in Germany. For a period of nine consecutive years, Mr. Dulski served on the Board of Trustees for the American International School in Japan. Living in Asia, he was a member of, and chaired, the marketing committee of the American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Dulski is a member of The Refractory Institute as well as a long-time member of the Iron and Steel Society of U.S.A., Japan and Germany.

Minerals Technologies Inc. is a resource- and technology-based organization that develops and produces performance-enhancing minerals, mineral-based and synthetic mineral products for the paper, steel, polymer and other manufacturing industries on a worldwide basis. The company had sales of $637.5 million for 1999.

For further information about Minerals Technologies Inc., call 1-888-MTX-NEWS (689-6397); or, look on the Internet at http://www.mineralstech.com