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PITTSBURGH, June 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Koppers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: KOP) today published its 2024 Corporate Sustainability Report (CSR), detailing the company's progress in executing its comprehensive Sustainability Plan, driven by its values of People, Planet, and Performance.

Highlights from the 2024 CSR include:

• Achieving a Total聽Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) of 2.52, the lowest in company history, demonstrating our global workforce's unwavering commitment to a Zero Harm culture.
  
  
• AG真人官方izing a 53% increase in solar energy production year-over-year, most notably through completion of a 100-kilowatt solar panel system at the Mayfield, Australia, facility.
  
  
• Delivering 40,000 utility poles to support recovery efforts following hurricanes Helene and Milton.
  
  
• Launching Koppers Sustainability Cloud, a new data hub ensuring consistency, accuracy, and improved reporting, to align with recognized global industry standards.
  
  
• Receiving recognition for the fifth consecutive year as one of聽Newsweek's Most Responsible Companies, with the organization's highest placement ever.
  
  
• Being named to USA Today's listing of America's Climate Leaders, for the third consecutive year.

"At Koppers, we believe that amid today's complex and dynamic global landscape, it is increasingly important to stay firmly grounded in our core values of People, Planet, and Performance," said Chief Executive Officer and Chair Leroy Ball. "Our Sustainability strategy, which aligns directly with these values, remains crucial for our enduring success."

"In 2024, we strengthened our Sustainability strategy and governance in multiple ways, maintaining responsible stewardship as we promote business growth," added Stephanie Apostolou, Chief Legal and Sustainability Officer and Secretary. "Our roadmap for 2025 and beyond includes setting new targets through 2030, ensuring that Sustainability remains a foundational element of our operations, driving innovation, risk management and long-term value creation."

To read the 2024 CSR and learn more about Sustainability at Koppers, .

About Koppers
Koppers (NYSE: KOP) is an integrated global provider of essential treated wood products, wood preservation technologies and carbon compounds. Our team of 2,000 employees create, protect and preserve key elements of our global infrastructure 鈥� including railroad crossties, utility poles, outdoor wooden structures, and production feedstocks for steel, aluminum and construction materials, among others 鈥� applying decades of industry-leading expertise while constantly innovating to anticipate the needs of tomorrow. Together we are providing safe and sustainable solutions to enable rail transportation, keep power flowing, and create spaces of enjoyment for people everywhere. Protecting What Matters, Preserving The Future. Learn more at .

Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and may include, but are not limited to, statements about sales levels, acquisitions, restructuring, declines in the value of Koppers assets and the effect of any resulting impairment charges, profitability and anticipated expenses and cash outflows. All forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties.

All statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in nature are forward-looking, and words such as "outlook," "guidance," "forecast," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "estimate," "may," "will," "should," "continue," "plan," "potential," "intend," "likely," or other similar words or phrases are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement contained herein, in other press releases, written statements or other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or in Koppers communications and discussions with investors and analysts in the normal course of business through meetings, phone calls and conference calls, regarding future dividends, expectations with respect to sales, earnings, cash flows, operating efficiencies, restructurings, cost reduction efforts, product introduction or expansion, the benefits of acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or other matters as well as financings and debt reduction, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and contingencies.

Many of these risks, uncertainties and contingencies are beyond our control, and may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from anticipated results, performance or achievements. Factors that might affect such forward-looking statements include, among other things, availability of and fluctuations in the prices of key raw materials, including coal tar, lumber and scrap copper; the impact of changes in commodity prices, such as oil, copper and chemicals, on product margins; the extent of the dependence of certain of our businesses on certain market sectors and customers; economic, political and environmental conditions in international markets, including governmental changes, tariffs, restrictions on trade and restrictions on the ability to transfer capital across countries; general economic and business conditions; potential difficulties in protecting our intellectual property; the ratings on our debt and our ability to repay or refinance our outstanding indebtedness as it matures; our ability to operate within the limitations of our debt covenants; unexpected business disruptions; potential delays in timing or changes to expected benefits from cost reduction efforts; potential impairment of our goodwill and/or long-lived assets; demand for Koppers goods and services; competitive conditions; capital market conditions, including interest rates, borrowing costs and foreign currency rate fluctuations; disruptions and inefficiencies in the supply chain; changes in laws; the impact of environmental laws and regulations; unfavorable resolution of claims against us, as well as those discussed more fully elsewhere in this release and in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Koppers, particularly our latest annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent filings by Koppers with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date of this release, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after that date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Media Contact:
Jessica Black, Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
412 227 2025
[email protected]

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