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The area was the site of a butadiene, and later a foamed polystyrene, chemical plant during World War II and in the 1950s that was owned by the Koppers United Company, the predecessor to Koppers Company, Inc.
Monaca (/ m ɪ ˈ n æ k ə / mi-NAK-ə) is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 5,625 as of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is located 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Pittsburgh and is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area .
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent.
Koppers is an integrated global producer of carbon compounds, chemicals, and treated wood products for the aluminum, railroad, specialty chemical, utility, rubber, steel, residential lumber, and agriculture industries.
BASF plant in Ludwigshafen, 1865. BASF is an acronym for Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (German for 'Baden Aniline and Soda Factory'). It was founded by Friedrich Engelhorn on 6 April 1865 in Mannheim, in the German-speaking state of Baden.
Center Township is bordered to the northeast by the borough of Monaca, to the south by Hopewell Township and the city of Aliquippa, to the northwest by Potter Township, and to the west by Raccoon Township. To the north, across the Ohio River, is the borough of Beaver, and Conway is to the east across the river. Since Center Township does not ...
The $1.7 billion agricultural business was sold in 2000 to the German chemical giant BASF, raising BASF agricultural sales to $3.6 billion (1999 pro-forma), making it one of the top three agricultural companies in the world. Most of the chemical businesses of American Cyanamid are operated by a spun-off successor company known as Cytec.
The Golden Dome is a 38,000-square-foot (3,500 m 2), 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Monaca, Pennsylvania on the campus of the Community College of Beaver County.On April 22, 1974, the Community College of Beaver County Building and Construction Committee decide to build the Physical Education and Recreation Center, better known as the Dome.