| |
National Safety Council
Honors Eight Koppers Plants
Aug. 10, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — The
National Safety Council has recognized eight Koppers' facilities
for their outstanding safety records with the prestigious 1998
Perfect Record Award for operating more than 150,000 hours without
a lost workday case.
Koppers locations receiving the Award include:
- Denver Plant - Railroad
Products & Utilities and Services
Division, Denver, CO
- Green Spring Plant - Railroad Products & Utilities
and Services Division, Green Spring, WV
- Guthrie Plant - Railroad Products & Utilities
and Services Division, Guthrie, KY
- Harmarville Technology Center, Harmarville,
PA
- Portland Northwest
Terminal Plant - Carbon Materials and Chemicals Division,
Portland, OR
- Susquehanna CO-Generation Plant - Railroad
Products & Utilities
and Services Division, Montgomery, PA
- Susquehanna Wood Preserving
Plant - Railroad Products & Utilities
and Services Division, Montgomery, PA
- Woodward Plant - Carbon Materials
and Chemicals Division, Dolomite, AL
Koppers employees are the company's most valuable
resource," said
Randall D. Collins,
Koppers vice president of safety, health & environmental
department. "Safety, at its most basic elements, is about
people making an individual and collective commitment to look out
for one another. When this happens everyone wins; the individual,
co-workers, the family, the community and Koppers. Safety is good
for people and good for business."
Koppers is a global integrated
producer of carbon compounds and treated wood products for use
in a variety of markets including
the railroad, aluminum, chemical and steel industries. The company
operates 22 facilities in the United States and an additional 13
facilities in the South Pacific (primarily Australia and New Zealand).
The company also maintains indirect ownership interests in an additional
facility in the United States through its domestic joint venture
KSA and in five facilities overseas (one in Denmark and four in
the United Kingdom) through its Danish joint venture Tarconord
A/S. Additionally, in March 1999 the company entered into a joint
venture agreement with Tangshan Iron & Steel Co. ("TISCO")
to rehabilitate and operate a tar distillation facility in China;
the joint venture will be 60% owned by the company. The company's
stock is shared by a large number of management investors and by
majority equity owner, Saratoga Partners of New York City. |
