The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-19
KOPPERS COKECO.
 NEW OFFICE OPENS
John Turbert in Charge of Local Area-TakeS
 CLAP Co. Business

The k0ppcrS Coke Company, whose newly opened Waterbury of- flee is located at 61 Center street, today announced that 1t is now prepared to handle the coke busi- ness of the Connecticut Light & Power Company, which is no long CT manufacturing the fuel. The company will also build up great CT tonnage in the city and will make not only local deliveries, but will extend it's service to towns in the. vicinity of Waterbury.
 The new office, only few doors from the office of the Connecticut Light and Power Company, is un- der the management of John Tur- bert. MT. Turbert has had more than IT years of experience in the fuel business. For the past seven years he has been in the employ of the Koppers Coke Company at their New Haven office. A large and experienced staff will be em- pIoyed as a sales force at the local office, MT. Turbert said.
 Visitors Welcome
 With the announcement to the Waterbury public today, the com pany also extends an invitation to visit the New Haven plant and wit negs the actual process of produc- ing the fuel. Competent guides will explain the methods of pro- duction and students engaged in technical study or any others in- terested are urged to attend in group.
 The process is interesting and well worth the trip to New Haven. So.t coal is dramatically sealed in special silica brick ovens and con- verted into coke by heating at high temperature for an exact pe- riod of time. During this baking process, wasteful impurities and unpleasant gases are eliminated. Coke, then, bears similar relation to soft coal that gasoline does to crude oil.
 The making of one ton of Kop- pers Coke requires the use of one and. one-half tons of the finest West Virginia coals. These are cleaned, pulverized, and blended in the proper proportions, resulting in a high carbon fuel, practically free from impurities, and contain ing very little ash; important fea- lures from the angles of efficiency and economy.
 Uniform Fuel
 The rapid growth and more ef- ficient methods of the steel in- dustry demanded fuel of uniform structure and purity. It was found that if various types of coal were blended in the proper proportions, coke to meet these requirements could be obtained" In the Kop- pers process, developed to meet this demand, these points for dom estic coke are governed with ex- actness to the utmost degree. Scientific methods replaced the former process and constant la boratory tests insured the main- tenance of high standards.
 Today, plants operating under this method have a capacity for producing about 53,000,O00 tons of { coke yearly.
 In 1915, the first Koppers Coke plant for the production of house. hold fuel was completed at Jersey City. Goals were selected that would produce a coke low in ash and sufficiently hard in structure to meet the demands of home heating.
 Atlantic Seaboard
 Similar plants in many sections of the country now in operation are producing nearly 11,000,000 tons of fuel for this purpose In ad- dition to the plant at New Haven and two in the Philadelphia dis trict, Koppers plants supplying the Atlantic seaboard are located in Boston. Jersey City and Brooklyn. New England alone uses nearly 1,500,0O0 tons yearly.