United States · Chemicals

Koppers Holdings

Koppers is a leading integrated producer of carbon compounds and treated wood products

Public · NYSE:KOPFor profit

ChemicalsPittsburgh, PA, United States

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Against its peers

Set against 2,357 Chemicals companies in United States. The ring marks the typical peer.

LinkedIn followers17k#82 of 2,326; the typical peer has 189
Staff1001-5000Larger than the typical peer (11-50)
Founded19882 years after the typical peer (1986)
Website traffic#2.0MBusier than the typical peer's site (#5.1M)

Across all 5.9M companies: larger than 97% of those with a size listed; older than 81% of those with a founding year; website ranked #2,012,678 in the world, about 10k visits a month. 1,029 people list it on LinkedIn, and 17,120 follow it.

About Koppers Holdings

Koppers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a global wood preservation technology company that creates safe and environmentally responsible solutions to solve our customer’s most important challenges. Our products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets including railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber and construction industries. With more than 2,100 employees, we maintain a global manufacturing… Read all

Koppers, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a global wood preservation technology company that creates safe and environmentally responsible solutions to solve our customer’s most important challenges. Our products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets including railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber and construction industries. With more than 2,100 employees, we maintain a global manufacturing and distribution network, with facilities in North America, South America, Australasia, China and Europe. Koppers is committed to living a culture of Zero Harm that places the care of our people, our environment and our communities first at all times. The company is also a member of the American Chemistry Council and dedicated to adopting its Responsible Care® initiative at all of our locations worldwide.

What it does

IndustrialManufacturingRailroad and Utility Products and ServicesCarbon Materials & ChemicalsPerformance ChemicalsUtility and Industrial Products

One of 2,357 Chemicals companies in United States, and of 8,539 in the industry worldwide.

Funding, as listed

What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves, and do not hold this company in the startups database.

$1.6B

raised in total across 3 rounds

Last raised Apr 2024, 2 years ago

Rounds
3
Latest round
Post ipo debt
Latest amount
$397M
Investors
1

Corporate family

Where it sits in its group, and the deals it has done.

This companyKoppers Holdings3acquisitions made

Key facts

Who started it and how it trades.

Founded by
Heinrich Koppers

Every detail we hold

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The company8 fields

Name
Koppers Holdings
Type
For profit
Status
Public · NYSE:KOP
Founded
1988
Founders
Heinrich Koppers
Industry
Chemicals
Categories
Industrial, Manufacturing
Specialities
Railroad and Utility Products and Services, Carbon Materials & Chemicals, Performance Chemicals, Utility and Industrial Products

Where4 fields

City
Pittsburgh
Region
PA
Country
United States
Markets
Great Lakes, Northeastern US

Size and reach5 fields

Staff band
1001-5000
People on LinkedIn
1,029
LinkedIn followers
17,120
Web traffic rank
#2,012,678
Monthly web visits
10,340
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Funding, as listed8 fields

Total
$1,597,000,000 USD
Rounds
3
Latest round
Post ipo debt
Latest round date
Apr 2024
Latest amount
397,000,000 USD
Investors
1
Stock listing
NYSE:KOP
Listing status
public

Corporate family1 field

Acquisitions made
3

About this record2 fields

Sources
Crunchbase, LinkedIn
Last imported
Sept 2026

Growth, as the source summarises it

Koppers Holdings signed an agreement to acquire Brown Wood Preserving. Additionally, Koppers Holdings successfully repriced and upsized its Term Loan B.

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