--- title: Incredible Minerals Today Blog | EP Minerals | EP Way description: EP Way | Incredible Minerals Today gives readers insights and information about new exciting uses for diatomaceous earth, perlite and clay around the world today, plus the latest information about EP Minerals. --- [![EP Minerals](https://s3.amazonaws.com/tai-epminerals-blue-production/assets/logo-2x-47fa904bf68f43107c73f6469e9c48f456bd3926518cc9ea58c2fb18c520d71d.png)](https://epminerals.com) Incredible Minerals for Everyday Use - [Login](https://epminerals.com/users/login) - [Careers](https://epminerals.com/about-us/careers) - [Contact Us](https://epminerals.com/contact-us) # Incredible Minerals Today ## [EP Minerals Celebrates Get To Know Your Customers Day - Every Day!](https://blog.epminerals.com/ep-minerals-has-a-passion-for-incredible-customer-service-0) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Jul 18, 2019 12:44:09 PM ![bellringer pic](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/bellringer%20pic.jpg?width=577&name=bellringer%20pic.jpg) "Make the customer your primary agenda." It's our mantra every day, not just today on Get To Know Your Customers Day. To a person, we have a passion for putting the **customer first**. Every day. We're different in how we treat our customers, different in how we work with each other, and different in what we do and how we do it. Apparently, our customers think we’re different, too. But in a very good way. [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/ep-minerals-has-a-passion-for-incredible-customer-service-0) Topics: [Company News](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/company-news), [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way), [EP Minerals](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-minerals), [customer first](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/customer-first) ## [Is company culture important? EP Minerals can answer that question](https://blog.epminerals.com/is-company-culture-important-ep-minerals-answers-the-question-0) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Jan 4, 2019 11:26:52 AM  ![Mud_Factor2.jpg](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Mud_Factor2.jpg?width=613&height=459&name=Mud_Factor2.jpg)EP Minerals team competes at Mud Factor What’s the most important thing to employees? More than likely you said compensation. Well, that’s not the most important thing anymore. In a recent Gallup survey, 95% of employees said that having an engaging company culture was more important than compensation. And, with employees younger than 30 years old, the number was even higher. The Gallup survey also stated that “disengaged” workforces cost companies more than $450 billion every year. Bottom line: Building an engaging culture is critical to the success of any company. So, how can you create an engaging culture at work? [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/is-company-culture-important-ep-minerals-answers-the-question-0) Topics: [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way), [EP Minerals](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-minerals), [company culture](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/company-culture), [EP Engineered Clays](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-engineered-clays) ## [EP Minerals Has A Passion For Incredible Customer Service](https://blog.epminerals.com/ep-minerals-has-a-passion-for-incredible-customer-service) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Jul 19, 2018 11:54:08 AM ![customer service ](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/customer%20service%20.jpg?width=303&name=customer%20service%20.jpg) Reno customer service team (Bianca, Theresa, Missy, Daniel, Kim. Front row - Kathleen and Laura. Not pictured - Debbi, Dani and Lisa. Every week, we celebrate one of our 25 EP Way Fundamentals. This week it's Fundamental #4: Make the customer your primary agenda. We maybe should have made that #1, since that's how important this fundamental is to us. To a person, we have a passion for putting the **customer first**. Every day. We're different in how we treat our customers, different in how we work with each other, and different in what we do and how we do it. Apparently, our customers think we’re different, too. But in a very good way. [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/ep-minerals-has-a-passion-for-incredible-customer-service) Topics: [Company News](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/company-news), [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way), [EP Minerals](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-minerals) ## [EP Minerals Announces 2017 President's Award Winners](https://blog.epminerals.com/ep-minerals-announces-2017-presidents-award-winners) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Sep 28, 2017 1:08:50 PM   ![Unicorn.png](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Unicorn.png?width=640&name=Unicorn.png) Here at EP Minerals, we have some pretty incredible employees. Every day we see employees committed to our [EP Way Fundamentals](https://tai-epminerals-blue-staging.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/documents/documents/396/original/EPM129_EP_Way_25_Fundamentals_Flip_Book_Cover_Page_8.5x6_web.pdf?1437697755) like Step Up, Deliver Results and Challenge Each Other to be Great – all to take EP Minerals to the next level. But once a year, we recognize our “unicorn” employees with the President’s Award, delivered by our President/CEO Gregg Jones. Unicorn employees are described as those employees that shatter expectations, raise the bar for everyone and are simply a joy to be around. Unicorn employees can literally take a business to the next level. We’d like to congratulate our 2017 President’s Award Winners: [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/ep-minerals-announces-2017-presidents-award-winners) Topics: [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way), [EP Minerals](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-minerals) ## [Is company culture important? EP Minerals answers the question](https://blog.epminerals.com/is-company-culture-important-ep-minerals-answers-the-question) Posted by [Julie McGuire](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-mcguire) Mar 20, 2017 7:33:39 AM  ![Mud_Factor2.jpg](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Mud_Factor2.jpg?width=613&height=459&name=Mud_Factor2.jpg)EP Minerals team competes at Mud Factor What’s the most important thing to employees? More than likely you said compensation. Well, that’s not the most important thing anymore. In a recent Gallup survey, 95% of employees said that having an engaging company culture was more important than compensation. And, with employees younger than 30 years old, the number was even higher. The Gallup survey also stated that “disengaged” workforces cost companies more than $450 billion every year. Bottom line: Building an engaging culture is critical to the success of any company. So, how can you create an engaging culture at work? [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/is-company-culture-important-ep-minerals-answers-the-question) Topics: [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way) ## [EP Minerals' Company Culture: 25 Reasons Why We’re Different](https://blog.epminerals.com/company-culture-at-ep-minerals-25-reasons-why-were-different-0) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Dec 22, 2016 2:37:58 PM ![al.jpg](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/al.jpg?width=320&name=al.jpg "al.jpg")  At EP Minerals, we’re not like any other company. We’re different. And we think that’s a very good thing. What exactly do we mean by that? We’re different in how we treat our customers, different in how we work with each other and our suppliers, and different in what we do and how we do it. We not only believe in being a good company to work for and a good corporate citizen in the communities where we live and operate, but we also believe in being a good environmental steward in how we conduct our business. Every day, we commit to our mission: to provide our customers with the highest quality industrial minerals and deliver them with amazing customer service and technical expertise. [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/company-culture-at-ep-minerals-25-reasons-why-were-different-0) Topics: [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way) ## [Company Culture at EP Minerals: 25 Reasons Why We’re Different](https://blog.epminerals.com/company-culture-at-ep-minerals-25-reasons-why-were-different) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Nov 23, 2015 3:36:00 PM ![al.jpg](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/al.jpg?width=320&name=al.jpg "al.jpg")  [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/company-culture-at-ep-minerals-25-reasons-why-were-different) Topics: [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way) ## [Friday Breakfast at EP Minerals: A Part of our Culture](https://blog.epminerals.com/friday-breakfast-at-ep-minerals-a-part-of-our-culture) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Apr 24, 2015 3:30:00 PM ![breakfast](https://blog.epminerals.com/hubfs/breakfast.jpg)  Chili Relleno Casserole [Read More](https://blog.epminerals.com/friday-breakfast-at-ep-minerals-a-part-of-our-culture) Topics: [EP Way](https://blog.epminerals.com/topic/ep-way) [All posts](https://blog.epminerals.com/all) [![Share on Facebook](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/facebook-24x24.png)](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.epminerals.com%2Ftopic%2Fep-way%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dfacebook) [![Share on LinkedIn](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/linkedin-24x24.png)](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.epminerals.com%2Ftopic%2Fep-way%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dlinkedin) [![Share on Twitter](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/twitter-24x24.png)](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.epminerals.com%2Ftopic%2Fep-way%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.epminerals.com%2Ftopic%2Fep-way%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&source=tweetbutton&text=Incredible%20Minerals%20Today%20Blog%20%7C%20EP%20Minerals%20%7C%20EP%20Way) [![Share on Email](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/email-24x24.png)](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fblog.epminerals.com%2Ftopic%2Fep-way%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail%20&body=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fblog.epminerals.com%2Ftopic%2Fep-way%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail) ## About this blog Incredible Minerals Today gives readers insights and information about new exciting uses for diatomaceous earth, perlite and clay around the world today, plus the latest information about EP Minerals.  ### Subscribe to Email Updates ### Recent Posts ### Posts by Topic - 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