ACNT vs KOP

ACNT Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-04 · GPT 6 Luna

Item 1. Business Ascent Industries Co. is a diverse industrials company focused on the production of specialty chemicals and stainless steel pipe and tube. Ascent Industries Co. was incorporated in 1958 as the successor to a chemical manufacturing business founded in 1945 known as Blackman Uhler Industries Inc. The Company's executive office is located at 20 N. Martingale Rd, Suite 430, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173. Unless indicated otherwise, the terms "Ascent", "Company," "we" "us," and "our" refer to Ascent Industries Co. and its consolidated subsidiaries. The Company's business is divided into two reportable operating segments, Specialty Chemicals and Tubular Products.

e segment produces specialty formulations and intermediates for use in a wide variety of applications and industries with primary product lines focusing on the production of surfactants, defoamers, lubricating agents, flame retardants and chemical intermediates. End users include companies that use our products as raw materials or process aids in the manufacturing of products such as cleaners, coatings, water treatment chemicals, metal working fluids, textiles, oilfield production chemicals, agrochemical formulations and other applications. The segment offers products that are petroleum derived, as well as bio-based alternatives.

KOP Core

Annual filing released 2025-02-27 · GPT 6 Luna

Our PC business maintains sales and manufacturing capabilities in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Australasia. The primary products supplied by PC are copper-based wood preservatives, including micronized copper azole (MicroPro®), micronized pigments (MicroShades®), alkaline copper quaternary, amine copper azole, DCOI and CCA. The primary applications for these products include decking, fencing, utility poles, construction lumber and timbers, and various agricultural uses. Additionally, we are a leading supplier of fire-retardant chemicals (FlamePro®) for pressure treatment of wood, primarily in commercial construction. Because we are a global supplier of wood preservatives, we face various competitors in all the geographic regions in which we participate.

Our CMC business manufactures its primary products and sells them directly to our global customer base under long-term contracts or through purchase orders negotiated by our regional sales personnel and coordinated through our regional marketing groups. Our three coal tar distillation facilities and two carbon materials terminals give us the ability to offer customers multiple sourcing options and a consistent supply of high-quality products. Our CMC business manufactures the following principal products: ▪creosote, used in the treatment of wood or as a feedstock in the production of carbon black; ▪carbon pitch, a critical raw material used in the production of aluminum and steel; ▪naphthalene, used as a feedstock in the production of phthalic anhydride and as a surfactant in the production of concrete; and

ACNT Core

Annual filing released 2025-03-04 · GPT 6 Luna

Item 1. Business Ascent Industries Co. is a diverse industrials company focused on the production of specialty chemicals and stainless steel pipe and tube. Ascent Industries Co. was incorporated in 1958 as the successor to a chemical manufacturing business founded in 1945 known as Blackman Uhler Industries Inc. The Company's executive office is located at 20 N. Martingale Rd, Suite 430, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173. Unless indicated otherwise, the terms "Ascent", "Company," "we" "us," and "our" refer to Ascent Industries Co. and its consolidated subsidiaries. The Company's business is divided into two reportable operating segments, Specialty Chemicals and Tubular Products.

Segment Location Principal Operations Square Feet Land Acres Leased or Owned Tubular Products Specialty Chemicals Bristol, TN Manufacturing stainless steel pipe 275,000 73.1 Leased ✔ Fountain Inn, SC Chemical manufacturing and warehousing 136,834 16.9 Leased ✔ Danville, VA Chemical manufacturing and warehousing 135,811 55.3 Owned ✔ Cleveland, TN Chemical manufacturing and warehousing 122,800 18.8 Leased ✔ Troutman, NC Manufacturing ornamental stainless steel tube 106,657 26.5 Leased ✔ Statesville, NC Manufacturing ornamental stainless steel tube 83,000 26.8 Leased ✔ The following table sets forth certain information concerning other properties under the Master Lease in which the Company is the responsible party:

KOP Core

Annual filing released 2025-02-27 · GPT 6 Luna

We are a leading integrated global provider of treated wood products, wood preservation chemicals and carbon compounds. Our products and services are used in a variety of niche applications in a diverse range of end-markets, including the railroad, specialty chemical, utility, residential lumber, agriculture, aluminum, steel, rubber and construction industries. We serve our customers through a comprehensive global manufacturing and distribution network, with manufacturing capabilities in North America, South America, Australasia and Europe. Business Segments and Products We operate three principal business segments: Railroad and Utility Products and Services (RUPS), Performance Chemicals (PC) and Carbon Materials and Chemicals (CMC).

The RUPS business operates 19 wood treating plants and one rail joint bar manufacturing facility located throughout the United States, Canada and Australia. Our network of plants is strategically located near timber suppliers to enable us to access raw materials and service customers effectively. In addition, all of our crosstie treating plants are on our largest railroad customers’ rail lines. Our RUPS business manufactures its primary products and sells them directly to our customers through long-term contracts and purchase orders negotiated by our regional sales personnel and coordinated through our marketing group at corporate headquarters. 4 Koppers Holdings Inc. 2024 Annual Report

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Annual filing released 2025-03-04 · GPT 6 Luna

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KOP Material

Annual filing released 2025-02-27 · GPT 6 Luna

Our RUPS business primarily sells pressure-treated railroad ties to the railroad industry in the United States and Canada and treated utility poles to utility markets in the United States and Australia. Railroad products and services include procuring and treating items such as crossties, switch ties and various types of lumber used for railroad bridges and crossings. Utility products include the pressure treatment of transmission and distribution poles for electric and telephone utilities. In addition, we provide untreated wood products and rail joint bars, which are steel bars used to join rails together for railroads, to the railroad markets and inspection services to the utility markets.

We believe our North American utility pole business is the second largest supplier of utility poles in the United States, and we believe our Australian utility pole business is the largest supplier of utility poles in Australia. Our North American utility pole business serves eight of the top ten utilities, based on customer base and revenue, in the United States. Utility poles are produced mainly from pine species in the United States and eucalyptus species in Australia. Most of these poles are purchased from large timber owners and individual landowners and shipped to one of our pole-peeling facilities. In North America and Australia, in addition to utility poles, we market pilings for marine applications and smaller poles to the agricultural landscape and vineyard markets.

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KOP Material

Annual filing released 2025-02-27 · GPT 6 Luna

Our RUPS business primarily sells pressure-treated railroad ties to the railroad industry in the United States and Canada and treated utility poles to utility markets in the United States and Australia. Railroad products and services include procuring and treating items such as crossties, switch ties and various types of lumber used for railroad bridges and crossings. Utility products include the pressure treatment of transmission and distribution poles for electric and telephone utilities. In addition, we provide untreated wood products and rail joint bars, which are steel bars used to join rails together for railroads, to the railroad markets and inspection services to the utility markets.

We also operate a railroad services business that conducts engineering, design, repair and inspection services for railroad bridges and a business related to the recovery of used crossties, serving the same customer base as our North American railroad business. The primary end-markets for RUPS are the North American railroad industry, which has an installed base of approximately 450 million wood crossties, and the U.S. and Australian utility industries which utilize wooden distribution and transmission poles. Both crossties and utility poles require periodic replacement.