Walter Industries, Inc. is a diversified company that operates in five reportable segments: Homebuilding, Financing, Industrial Products, Carbon and Metals and Natural Resources. Through these operating segments, the Company offers a diversified line of products and services, including home construction and financing, ductile iron pressure pipe, aluminum foil and sheet products, furnace and foundry coke, chemicals and slag fiber, alloys and metals, petroleum coke distribution, refinery outsourcing services and coal and methane gas production and distribution. During the year ended December 31, 2001, the Company realigned its segments. Sloss Industries Corporation was previously included in the Industrial Products segment but has been realigned with AIMCOR (Applied Industrial Materials Corporation) Carbon and AIMCOR Metals (previously the Energy Services segment) into a newly created segment, Carbon and Metals.