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About Luzenac

Luzenac is a market-focused talc producer. As world leader in our field, we are committed to setting the standards for the talc industry in such areas as innovation, technical assistance, product quality, health, safety and the environment, and ethical behavior.

Luzenac Group produces, ships and sells a wide range talc-based products from its plants in Europe, North and Central America and Asia-Pacific to customers in over 100 countries, ranging from major papermakers who buy over 10,000 tonnes a year to pharmaceutical companies who take just a couple of tonnes. With the widest talc product range and unsurpassed applications expertise, we are the only talc producer that can meet all end-use requirements worldwide.

Talc imparts benefits to a whole myriad of products including paper, paints, plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, soaps, ceramics, rubber, and human and animal foodstuffs.

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Rio Tinto Minerals

Luzenac is part of Rio Tinto Minerals, the acknowledged world leader in developing industrial minerals.

Rio Tinto Minerals encompasses 2,500 people working at 35 facilities on five continents to serve more than 6,000 customers worldwide. It supplies 25 percent of global demand for talc under the Luzenac brand and 43 percent of global demand for refined borates under the Borax 20 Mule TeamŽ brand. Borates are key ingredients in fiberglass, glass, ceramics, detergents, agricultural nutrients and wood preservatives.

Rio Tinto Minerals is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, one of the world's leading mining companies with mines and processing plants in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and South-East Asia. Rio Tinto employs 65,000 people worldwide and had net earnings of US$ 7,312 million in 2007.
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