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Loader and equipment at the Lovelock , Nevad mine
minerals company has acquired a series of highly valuable assets , such as a large diatomaceous earth ( DE ) deposit and factory in Clark , Nevada . In 1959 , the company commissioned a DE producing plant in Lovelock , Nevada , which remains the largest DE producing plant in the world to this day .
That plant was upgraded in 1993 with a perlite expander , officially bringing the company into the perlite business . A new DE plant was built and commissioned in Vale , Oregon in 1985 . In 2013 , EP Minerals acquired the Moltan Company and with it additional mines and processing facilities in Nevada and Tennessee . Finally , in 2014 , a new perlite facility was opened in Blair , Nebraska .
“ We have six plants , close to 600 employees , plus or minus , and with that we sell all over the world and to about a hundred countries ,” said Al Kaczanowski , vice president of marketing .
What They Do EP Minerals doesn ’ t just sell its products in bulk . The company maintains a full-scale R & D department devoted to the development of cutting-edge ,
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