Koppers Holdings

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Koppers Holdings Inc.
legal form Corporation
ISIN US50060P1066
founding 1988
Seat Pittsburgh , United States
management Leroy M. Ball, CEO
Number of employees 2,229
sales $ 1.710 billion
Branch chemistry
Website www.koppers.com
As of December 31, 2018

The Koppers Holdings is an American chemical company that goes back to the German Heinrich Koppers AG . In 1988 it was taken over by the British corporate hunter Brian Beazer and restructured.

Koppers makes products from coal tar . These include tar oil for the impregnation of railway sleepers and wooden masts and as a raw material for carbon black production , pitch as a binder for carbon electrodes, naphthalene and phthalic anhydride . In addition, wood preservatives on copper-based manufactured.

Plants (coal chemistry)

Individual evidence

  1. a b Koppers Form 10-K Report 2018 , accessed on March 2, 2019
  2. ^ Kurt Eichenwald: Takeover With a Twist . In: The New York Times . April 24, 1988 ( nytimes.com ).
  3. or Creosote , different terminology German / English
  4. Form 10-K 2015