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Koppers Provides a Comprehensive Life-Cycle Management Approach

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At Koppers, we help build and preserve critical railroad infrastructure for safe and efficient transportation of goods and people around the globe. Our comprehensive lifecycle management approach includes sourcing and treating wood products, producing rail accessories, providing bridge repair services and offering environmentally friendly solutions for end-of-life crossties. A long-time industry-leader, we are the number one supplier of pressure-treated crossties to Class I railroads in North America.

Our products include:

  • Pressure-Treated Products: We provide high-quality, creosote-treated crossties and switch ties offering durability and dependability.
  • Tie Pre-Plating: Through an automated process that ensures precision, we customize our solutions to any railroad’s specifications.
  • Rail Accessories: We produce top-quality, customizable track components and rail joints in multiple sizes, including bolted insulated, bonded, and standard joints and gage plates.
  • Crossing Panels: Products include full depth timber crossings, inside the rail gage pieces, and outside the rail field pieces.
  • Bridge Timbers: We provide southern yellow pine, oak, and hardwood bridge timbers treated to different retentions and/or dual-treated materials.

Specializing in wood, steel, and concrete bridges, the Koppers Railroad Structures team provides a trusted source for bridge rehabilitation and inspection needs.

  • Services include: bridge inspection, engineering and design, internal treatment, tie deck replacement, timber bridge repair concrete bridge repair and new bridge construction.

Our Recovery Resources business provides sustainable, safe, cost-effective solutions for the collection and processing of end-of-life crossties.

  • Services include: collection of end-of-life crossties, rail car cleaning, logistics coordination, and repurposing end-of-life cross ties for landscape use or crosstie derived fuels.

As a global manufacturer, our treated wood products and sustainable services are critical in helping to help build, maintain and preserve essential railroad infrastructure. An all-in-one resource for your railroad needs, we’ll keep you on track.

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