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Walter Industries, Inc., WLT — Water Transmission Products, Metallurgical Coal Production, Affordable Homebuilding, Financing

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Walter Industries is a company with diversified operations worldwide. The Walter Ind. name is associated with the producing of high-quality metallurgical coal used all over the world, but also with homebuilding and financing services.

Mueller Water Products is a company that derived from Walter Industries which deals in the manufacturing and retail of flow control products used in the water transmission industry. Jim Walter Resources is a subsidiary of Walter Industries in the coal and natural resources segment. This company operates three coal mines in Brookwood. The underground coal mines operated by employees of Jim Walter Resources are some of the deepest ones in North America.

The homebuilding operations are mainly conducted by Jim Walter Homes. With a portfolio of more than 350,000 new homes since the company was founded, it is one of the largest affordable homebuilders in the country.

Walter Industries also operates in the financing department through Walter Mortgage Company, a company that offers home financing and mortgage services for the homebuilding segment.

Sloss Industries is also a company spun off Walter Industries that operates a furnace and foundry in Birmingham, also manufacturing specialty chemicals. The Natural Resources Segment

The natural resources group main companies are Jim Walter Resources, Black Warrior Methane, Sloss Industries and Kodiak Mining. The products they process and deliver are Metallurgical and steam coal, natural gas, furnace and foundry coke, slag fiber.

The Kodiak Mining Copany, was founded in 2005 to operate the coal mine in Shelby County, Alabama. The coal extracted from this mine can be used on both steam coal and metallurgical coal markets. The underground coal mine was opened in 2005 and started production in 2006.

The Blue Creek Coal is known around the world for its outstanding qualities: high heat value making it ideal for cooking, steam coal use or other industrial uses. Together with the fact that it has a very low content of sulfur, this makes the Blue Creek coal highly sought out worldwide. The well known qualities of this coal make it easy for Jim Walter Resources to market it domestically or on an industrial scale all across the world. The Homebuilding and Financing Segment

Jim Walter Homes together with Neatherlin Homes make up for the natural resources segment of Walter Industries. Homebuilding was the primary objective of the company since it was founded in 1946. It is then that the concept of affordable homebuilding emerged. This was focused primarily on the needs of Americans that owned their land but didn’t have enough financial resources to make a cash down payment for a new home.

Jim Walter Homes now has a portfolio of dozens of home models and is recognized as the nation’s most important builder of single-family, on-your-lot homes.

Walter Mortgage Company was created in 2001 as a financing support for Jim Walter Homes' clients. The new company would help its customers with land acquisitions and payments. The company also operates a program through which it purchases particular loans on the open market. This program has brought important acquisitions to the company portfolio.

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