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Operations > Coke
Coke is a hard, dry carbon substance produced by heating coal to a very high temperature
in an enclosed environment with the absence of air. It is used in the manufacturing
of iron, steel, and other industrial products.
There are currently four remaining merchant foundry coke plants in the United States
producing foundry and industrial coke.
Coke operations use only metallurgical coal, which is suitable for carbonization
and the production of coke. Drummond’s coke operation, ABC Coke, is well known in
the foundry industry for the high quality of its product.
Metallurgical coal used by ABC Coke is shipped to our facility from both Alabama
and West Virginia coal mines where it is processed into foundry and industrial coke.
The coke is then sold to foundries supplying the automotive and cast iron pipe industries
in the US and Mexico as well as industrial coke consumers in the smelting, rock
wool, and sugar industries.
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