- CEO
- Katherine T. Gates
- Full Time Employees
- 2,477
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Steel
- Address
- 1011 Warrenville Road Lisle IL United States of America 60532
- IPO Date
- Jul 21, 2011
- Business
- SunCoke Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SXC) is the largest independent producer of high-quality metallurgical coke in the Americas, with over 60 years of coke production experience; the company converts metallurgical coal into blast furnace coke used primarily as a raw material in steelmaking blast furnaces and foundry coke for cast iron production; it also generates steam and electricity through heat recovery from the cokemaking process. SunCoke operates five domestic cokemaking facilities in the United States—Jewell in Virginia, Indiana Harbor in Indiana, Haverhill in Ohio, Granite City in Illinois, and Middletown in Ohio—with a collective nameplate capacity of approximately 4.2 million tons of blast furnace coke annually; these facilities utilize advanced heat recovery technology that produces higher-quality coke, captures waste heat for steam or power generation sold under agreements, and meets or exceeds environmental standards such as EPA MACT, BACT, and LAER; blast furnace coke sales are primarily under long-term take-or-pay contracts with customers including Cleveland-Cliffs Steel, U.S. Steel, and Algoma Steel, while excess capacity supports spot sales into North American and export markets; foundry coke is produced and sold from Jewell under annual agreements; the company further operates a cokemaking facility in Vitória, Brazil, for ArcelorMittal Brazil with 1.7 million tons annual capacity under licensing and operating fees with full cost pass-through. The Logistics segment includes three terminals—Convent Marine Terminal (CMT) in Louisiana with 15 million tons transloading capacity and access to seaborne markets, Kanawha River Terminals (KRT) in West Virginia with 25 million tons mixing and handling capacity for metallurgical and thermal coal, and Lake Terminal serving Indiana Harbor—with collective throughput over 40 million tons and 3 million tons storage annually; services encompass export/domestic material handling, mixing, transloading via rail, barge, truck, or ship for steel, coke, utility, coal, and manufacturing customers without taking possession of materials. SunCoke Energy, founded in 2008 as a spin-off from Sunoco and headquartered in Lisle, Illinois, conducts operations across the United States, Brazil, and international export markets targeting steelmakers, foundries, utilities, and industrial users. Recent developments include the completion of a $325 million cash-free, debt-free acquisition of Phoenix Global (parent of Flame Aggregator) in August 2025, enhancing mill services for steel manufacturers, projected to immediately boost earnings and yield $5-10 million in annual synergies at a 5.4x adjusted EBITDA multiple; extension of the Granite City coke supply agreement with U.S. Steel through June 2025 at reduced turn-down capacity of 295,000 tons; extension of the revolving credit facility to July 2030; and an additional coal handling agreement at KRT prompting a 2025 capital project.