Imerys
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About Imerys
As the world’s leading supplier of specialty minerals for industry, Imerys is organized around the 3 following activities : Performance Minerals (PM), Solutions for Refractory, Abrasives and Construction (RAC) and Solutions for Energy Transition (SET).
Performance Minerals
Performance Minerals are used as functional additives, providing unique properties to our customers’ products of the following main markets:
• Plastics
• Ceramics & building products
This business area is split into 2 geographic areas Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific (PM EMEA & APAC), and the Americas (PMA).
Solutions for Refractory, Abrasives and Construction
Our minerals in this business area are speciality minerals used as processing aids for use in extreme work conditions:
• Foundry
Solutions for Energy Transition
This business area comprises Imerys Graphite & Carbon (IGC), mainly serving the mobile energy market, and Imerys’ participation in The Quartz Corporation (TQC), a 50%-owned joint-venture, serving the solar and semiconductor markets with high-purity quartz solutions.
Imerys in the UK
Imerys in the UK employs over 1,110 people at 30 operations, including at five world-class open-pit mine sites, located in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire and Essex. Our UK operations produce kaolin, ball clay, calcium carbonate and calcium aluminates for a broad spectrum of industries ranging from ceramics to paints to refractories and hydraulic binders. They feature a state-of-the-art Technology Center at Par Moor, Cornwall.
Working for Imerys
Why Imerys?
A world of opportunities
Our people are our most important asset.
We’d be nothing without them. It’s their commitment to the business and capacity to think outside the box that drive us forward each day.
As world industry leaders with centuries worth of combined history in the mineral business, we’re bound to be passionate about what we do. If you think you’d like to share that passion and help us build on that history, we’d love you to check out our job opportunities and apply.
Employee stories
A world of opportunities
We offer opportunities to push yourself and make a real difference at Imerys and in the world. Discover some of our talents and their Imerys journeys.
Jenniffer Pernia
'Working at Imerys is interesting and challenging, and it has exposed me to different cultures, processes and synergies with colleagues from different geographies.'
Jenniffer Pernia - EHS Manager, Southern, Central Europe & UK