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Koppers, with its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, is a global integrated producer of carbon compounds and treated wood products for use by the utility, construction, railroad, aluminum, chemical and steel industries. Koppers operates 39 locations in the United States, China, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and South Africa, employing more than 2,000 people worldwide.

Koppers businesses are:

• Carbon materials and chemicals, including carbon pitch, carbon black, creosote, phthalic anhydride, refined tars, specialty chemicals and commercial grade roofing products.
• Railroad products, utility poles and pilings, including pressure treated wood products and services to the railroad industry, utility poles to the communications and electric industries and treated wood materials for commercial construction.

Sales for 2002 increased to $730.3 million, from $707.6 million in 2001.

The current company, Koppers Inc., was created as Koppers Industries, Inc. in October 1988 when certain assets of Koppers Company, Inc. were acquired from Beazer East in a management-led leveraged buyout that closed on December 29, 1988. The company’s stock is owned by a large number of employee investors and by majority equity owner Saratoga Partners of New York, NY.

At Koppers we are working to make today and tomorrow safer for our employees, communities, customers and the environment.