Opta Minerals Inc. processes, distributes, and sells industrial minerals, silica-free loose abrasives, and specialty sands and related products in United States, Canada, and internationally. The company’s industrial mineral products include desulphurization products and equipment, tundish insulating fluxes and ladle insulators, synthetic slags and conditioners, chromites and zircons, clays, coated sands, foundry pre-mixes, petroleum coke, lime and magnesium blends, and other industrial mineral blends, as well as provides steel plant technical services to the steel and foundry industries. Its silica-free abrasives comprise blackblast, ebonygrit, powerblast, ultrablast, garnet, aluminum oxide, glass beads, steel grit, shot and plastic beads, crushed glass, walnut-shells, corn cobs, and customized abrasive blends to the shipbuilding, ship repair, and bridge cleaning markets, as well as for other industrial applications. The company also offers filtration and industrial sands, golf bunker sands, colored sands, silica, sand blasting and foundry equipment, and steel equipment; recycling services, such as removal of coarse pollutants, paint chips, and dust from the abrasives; and testing services for customer system sands, and technical advice to address production issues. Its products are primarily used in the steel, foundry, loose abrasive, and municipal water filtration industries. Opta Minerals Inc. sells its products and services through its direct sales force; and through a network of agents and distributors. The company is headquartered in Waterdown, Canada. Opta Minerals Inc. is a subsidiary of SunOpta Inc.

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