Alabama By-Products and Coke Company

Alabama By-Products Corporation (also called ABC Coke) in Tarrant City, Alabama, north of downtown Birmingham, is the United States' largest producer of foundry coke. The company was founded in 1920 as the North Birmingham By Products Coke Oven Plant by the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company. Since 1985, it has been a division of the Drummond Company. Foundrey operations have always been supported by rail operations.