OKK Koksovny
OKK Koksovny, a.s. is a Czech coke producer. It is the largest producer of foundry coke in Europe. The company operates one plant in the city of Ostrava called 'Svoboda' facility.
History
The production of coke in the Ostrava area dates back to the 1840s. In 1843 a coking plant named "Jan". OKK included the coking plants in Ostrava: Svoboda, Jan Šverma, Karolina, Trojice, Czechoslovak army, and Lazy.In 1994, the joint-stock company OKD, OKK was established on 1 January 1994 by the allocation of OKD, a. s. assets. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of OKD, a. s. The annual turnover of the company was around CZK 5.5 billion. The new enterprise was created by merging two mining coking plants located within the city of Ostrava and one more plant located in the Karviná region.
In 2008 after property changes the New World Resources Plc Company became a new owner of the OKD, OKK, a.s. NWR was also the owner of the OKD, a.s., a hard coal mining company.
Currently the OKK Koksovny, a.s. operates only one coking plant called 'Svoboda' facility.
Company products
The main business of OKK Koksovny, a. s. is the production of coke. The company produces coke from virtually all types of coal suitable for coking. Coal is sourced from OKD mines as well as from abroad.OKK Koksovny, a. s. is the largest European producer of foundry coke. The firm offers a broad assortment of coke types for foundry and metallurgical manufacturing, for special metallurgy, heating and other purposes. It also sells chemical products from the high-temperature coal carbonisation that takes place during the coking process.
Production
Production fell between 2008 and 2009 by 34%, to 843,000 metric tons.In 2011, their capacity was about 400,000 metric tons of coke.