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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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