INDEPENDENCE, Ohio, June 25, 2025 /CSRwire/ - Covia Holdings LLC has opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory facility in Concord, North Carolina, to expand its network of innovation capabilities. The new innovation center, which includes modular lab space, meeting rooms, and office space, will serve as a hub for customer engagement and product development.

According to Bruno Biasiotta, Covia President and Chief Executive Officer, “The investment in our new innovation center reflects our commitment to being a customer-centric innovator and aligns with our core value of Growth. Unlocking growth in our markets by bringing value to our customers is central to our vision to be a leading minerals solutions provider.”

The roughly 20,000 square foot center was designed by the Covia technical team, with a focus on modularity and flexibility that will support the evolving needs of the markets Covia serves. In addition to mineral processing, the center supports application development and testing across a range of industries, including coatings, polymers, engineered stone, and sports and recreation.

The open lab layout allows for future expansion, with space to add workbenches and equipment as the team grows. The office area can accommodate more than 30 employees, and the collaborative meeting spaces are ideal for customer interactions and team ideation sessions.

“The Concord facility provides a focal point for our work to develop innovative products for our customers and broaden our product capabilities across our labs and plants,” Biasiotta added. “It represents an important step in our innovation journey and gives us terrific new capabilities to help our customers succeed.”

About Covia

Covia responsibly provides minerals solutions for a better tomorrow. As a leading provider of diversified minerals, our products support a variety of industrial markets, including glass, ceramics, coatings, metals, foundry, polymers, construction, water filtration, and sports and recreation. The company serves its customers through abroad array of essential, high-quality products, including high-purity silica sand, nepheline syenite, feldspar, kaolin and ball clays, cristobalite, and coated materials.Long-standing relationships with a broad customer base enable Covia’s market-inspired approach to innovation to enhance solutions and customer benefits.Underpinning these strengths is an unwavering commitment to safety and to sustainable development, further enhancing the value that Covia delivers to all its stakeholders.

For more information, visit CoviaCorp.com.

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At Covia, we are committed to being more than just a leading provider of high-performance mineral and material solutions – we believe that our company can make a positive difference in the world. This belief is what drives our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy, which is influenced by both our journey as an organization and the events in the world around us.

Our commitment to operating as a responsible corporate citizen has been embedded into every aspect of our business for decades and serves as the foundation for Covia’s ESG initiatives. From our operations to our Team Members and the communities in which we live and work, we continue to define WHAT WE’RE MADE OF as more than the materials we produce, but the impact we can make in every interaction.

In 2021, we enhanced our approach toward accelerating ESG performance by developing our formal GOALS THAT INSPIRE: ESG 2030. These 10 goals, broken into our three core areas - Environmental Stewardship, Positive Social Impact and Responsible Governance & Ethics - were developed by Covia Team members across the company and are designed to drive tangible and measurable progress in areas where we can make the most impact.

We have the commitment and strategy in place to drive meaningful progress and we are pledging to make a positive differences for our people, our planet and our communities.

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