Koppers Holdings Inc.

Koppers Holdings Inc. produces treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals, and carbon compounds. The company operates through three principal business segments: Railroad and Utility Products and Services, Performance Chemicals, and Carbon Materials and Chemicals. Its key product lines include pressure-treated railroad crossties, utility poles, rail joint bars, copper-based preservatives, fire-retardant chemicals, creosote, carbon pitch, and naphthalene. The company serves industrial customers across multiple end-markets, notably commercial railroads, electric and telephone utilities, residential lumber treaters, and producers of aluminum, steel, and concrete.

Operating internationally, the company maintains manufacturing and distribution capabilities across North America, South America, Australasia, and Europe. Its footprint includes eighteen wood treating plants and one rail joint bar facility across the United States, Canada, and Australia, alongside copper manufacturing plants in Michigan and Tennessee, and three coal tar distillation facilities globally. The company conducts executive oversight and coordinates commercial operations from its corporate headquarters, which is referenced in the text without a specific city name.

Summary of the business section of Koppers's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

“As of December 31, 2023, we had 971 salaried employees and 1,137 non-salaried employees.”