MINERALI INDUSTRIALI is an independent Italian company born from the merger of two historical Italian groups: Maffei, founded in the early 1900s and Gruppo Minerali active since the 1970s. Today it is managed by the two owner families and 6 top managers, and employs about 645 people (half of them in Italy), plus a few hundred subcontractors who carry out non-strategic activities. In 2022 MI produced more than 3.5 million tons of raw materials.
Minerali Industriali is present with 12 production units in Italy, 4 in Europe, 1 in Asia, 3 in North Africa and 7 in Central and South America. The main activities are UNI EN ISO 9001: 2015 certified.
Minerali Industriali operates in the following businesses:
- extraction, treatment and marketing of raw materials such as sands, feldspar, clays and kaolin for the glass, ceramic, sanitary and paint industries;
- production of innovative products for use in sports and leisure;
- valorisation of non-hazardous industrial waste (circular economy)
- geological and mining research;
- design and construction of machinery and systems for the mining sector and for the circular economy.
The Group
Companies of the Group
Europe
MAFFEI SARDA SILICATI S.p.A.
Asia
North Africa
MINERALI INDUSTRIALI TUNISIA SA
