The Quarzwerke Group is an internationally active family business with almost 140 years of tradition and a significant market position in the field of extraction and processing and refining of industrial minerals mainly from its own deposits headquartered in Germany. The products are not only indispensable in the original fields of application such as glass, paper, foundry, ceramics and construction chemicals, but have also long been used in polymer applications such as plastics, paints and coatings.

The Group currently employs around 3,500 people spread across 35 sites in Europe and Asia and is organized into six divisions. The division HPF The Mineral Engineers is engaged in the development of innovative and functional high-performance fillers and additives on a mineralogical and synthetic basis fpr polymer applications. High-performance fillers are highly specialized natural raw materials that are valued by customers all over the world.

In dialogue with customers, solutions are developed that help to improve the efficiency of customer systems. To achieve these goals, the company employs highly qualified specialists in research and development, in the central laboratory and in the technically oriented sales department. 

The high-performance fillers plants (HPF) at the Frechen site near Cologne, Germany, and in Dangjin City, South Korea, with experienced employees, are flexible and quick to adapt to new problems and products. Here, aggregates in various sizes are available for processing and refining mineral raw materials. Minerals from the millimeter to the few hundred nanometer range can be crushed and surface modified.

Quarzwerke is a group of companies with a convincing quality philosophy, certified according to DIN ISO 9001 and 14001, so that everything runs smoothly from mining to delivery.