PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Aug. 21, 2012)—Koppers Holding Inc. has announced plans to build a tar distillation plant in China.
Part of the project is to supply a carbon black plant to be built and operated by subsidiaries of Nippon Steel Chemical Co. Ltd.
The tar plant will be located in Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province, China. It will be part of an integrated carbon production complex composed of three plants, including a 300,000 metric ton coal tar distillation plant and two downstream plants producing needle coke and carbon black.