KCB is the largest Korean carbon black producer with an annual output of 200,000 tons of industrial carbon black. KCB is a daughter company of the German Degussa AG, which has worldwide more than 60,000 employees. The largest shareholder of Degussa AG is E.ON AG, the forth-largest company in Germany with a turnover of over 80 billion Euro (approximately 81 trillion won) and 150,000 employees.