The recent merger of Unimin and Fairmount Santrol resulted into the creation of Covia Holdings Corp., a leading provider of minerals and materials solutions for the industrial and energy markets. Two important businesses, specifically the high purity quartz sands and the sales of materials solutions for coating and polymers, have been integrated into a new structure known as “Sibelco North America Inc”.
The High Purity Quartz sands business (HPQ) mainly serves electronic manufacturers in Asia. Sibelco sees a very strong future for HPQ and will seek to leverage its unique capabilities in new exciting markets. The HPQ activities offer unique capabilities and products like the production of silicon wafers for electronics and solar energy applications.
In the Coatings and Polymers applications, the sales and marketing functions will be handled by the same people as before. But the new configuration will allow the teams to leverage the global leadership and the specific market and technical expertise of the Sibelco group in this business, including the broadening of the product offer for these applications.
For our customers nothing will change. The same teams will still take their pride in working closely with their customers and gaining intimate knowledge of their needs and processes. But as Sibelco, the teams will draw on the group’s global resources and expertise to deliver even greater solutions for all end users, looking beyond geographic and regional boundaries.
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Contact
* High Purity Quartz sands: Colby Banker, VP Sales Quartz, [email protected]
* Coatings and Polymers: Steven Devlies, VP Coatings and Polymers, [email protected]
About Sibelco
Sibelco is a Belgian privately-owned business which manufactures and distributes an extensive multi- mineral portfolio consisting of silica, clay, nepheline syenite and other industrial, non-metallic (specialty) minerals. We are a global leader in material solutions, transforming raw materials with technology and know-how to offer solutions with and beyond minerals. We support the progress of modern life and our industrial minerals are supplied to a diverse range of applications including glass, ceramics, construction & engineering, paint, coatings, polymers, metals and casting, oil & gas and agriculture. Our company has a strong presence around the world, operating in over 200 production sites in more than 40 countries with a team of over 10.000 people. Sibelco’s commitment to sustainable development and operational excellence is entrenched in our culture.
