State enterprise "State institute for designing enterprises of coke oven and by-product plants" (SE "GIPROKOKS") GIPROKOKS was founded in 1929 in Kharkov – the largest scientific and engineering center of Ukraine. For more than 90 years GIPROKOKS has elaborated 400 projects of coke oven batteries with total production capacity exceeding 200 mln. tons of coke per year. Today geography of GIPROKOKS supplies covers 26 countries. The whole coke oven and by-product industry of Ukraine and CIS countries was built according to GIPROKOKS designs. The archive of GIPROKOKS scientific and engineering products keeps design documentation according to which over 20% of world’s coke oven batteries have been built. Technological developments of GIPROKOKS correspond to the world’s standards and are protected with more than 500 author certificates and patents. GIPROKOKS has sold more than 50 licenses and know-how to companies from Germany, Japan, Italy, Great Britain, China, Poland, Turkey, Finland and other countries.