Koch Brothers Products — We’re Surrounded.
If you have been following news about the Koch brothers, you might be curious as to which products they manufacture.
It turns out, the Koch Brothers, with a net worth of over $40 billion each, own stakes in a ton of industries like paper and wood products, chemicals, textiles, plastics, etc.
Here are a list of companies and industries in which the Koch brothers own a stake:
- Paper Products: Angelsoft, Brawny, Dixie, Mardi Gras, Quilted Northern, Soft n Gentle, Sparkle, Vanity Fair
- Wood: Georgia-Pacific (largest plywood manufacturer in US – also owns most of the paper companies above).
- Textiles & Plastics: Polarguard, Stainmaster, Dacron, Lycra, CoolMax/SolarMax, Thermolite, and more.
- Chemicals, Coal, & Oil: Crude oil processing, Flint Hills Resources, lots of other commodities handled.
- Nitrogen: One more reason to make your own fertilizer – Koch Industries produces many synthetic fertilizers.
Those are just the best known brands – there’s many more on the list below. =(
Koch Brothers Products: Paper Products
Georgia-Pacific owns all of the brands above, and also distributes paper towels, napkins and soap dispensing systems used in commerical settings. Some GP commercial toilet paper brands: Envision, Coronet®, SCA, Tork and Fort James. GP also produces Pacific Garden liquid soaps.
Georgia-Pacific produces ink and office paper under the labels: Advantage, GP (including GP Harmon recycled papers), ImagePlus and the Spectrum® family of office paper products.
Koch Brothers Products: Wood
Georgia-Pacific is the largest manufacturer of plywood in the U.S.
Including Plytanium Plywood®, DryPly® plywood, Ply-Bead®.
Georgia-Pacific is one of the country’s largest suppliers of corrugated boxes and containers.
Various, numerous wood products, dimensional lumber and building materials: Blue Ribbon, Clutter Cutter, DensArmor Plus, DensDeck, DensGlass, DensShield® gypsum board, DryPly, Fireguard®, Grant Forest OSB Board, GP Lam, Hushboard, Nautilus, Ply-Bead, Plytanium, Southern Gold, Sta-Strait, Thermostat, ToughRock and Wood I Beam.
Koch Brothers Products: Textiles and Plastics
These are under the Koch Brothers brand Invista Products. Invista produces a large selection of products under this business, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymers for carbonated soft drink, water, beer, juice, food and custom container applications. Production also includes polyester intermediate feedstocks, film products, fibers, and specialty polymers for a variety of applications, inlcuding PBT-based engineering polymer.
- Stainmaster
- Dacron
- Lycra
- CoolMax
- SolarMax
- Polarguard
- Thermolite
- Antron
- Comforel fiberfill
- DBE® dibasic esters
- Tactel
- Tactesse Carpet Fibers
- Terathane
- ADI-Pure®
- Polyshield®
- Polyclear®
- Oxyclear™
- Performa®
- Cordura fabric
- Supplex® Fabric
- Somerelle® Bedding
Documentary: Koch Brothers Exposed
The full-length documentary starts with the background of the Koch brothers—their father started the empire with oil money earned in the Soviet Union. This is an updated edition of the documentary, showing the latest political contributions made by the Koch Brothers. It goes on to discuss their plans for eduction, their opposition to the minimum wage, their work to increase barriers to voting, their opposition to unions, and the environmental impact of their businesses.
Koch Brothers Products: Chemicals, Coal & Oil
Through its subsidiaries Koch operates refineries in Alaska, Minnesota and Texas, with a combined crude oil processing capacity of more than 800,000 barrels per day. Koch Industries owns or operates about 4,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas liquids and chemicals. Koch Minerals and its affiliates are among the world’s largest dry-bulk commodity handlers, marketing and trading more than 40 million tons of coal, petcoke, cement and other related products annually. Flint Hills Resources produces about 9 billion pounds of building-block chemicals per year. Koch is a leading producer of paving and roofing asphalt. Koch Oil Sands Operating LLC has leases for 1.1 million acres of Alberta oil fields. Their Pine Bend, Minn. refinery is one of the largest single buyers and refiners of Canadian heavy oil. Source: www.kochind.com
Koch Industries Produces:
- Gasoline
- Diesel
- Jet fuel
- Naphtha
- Asphalt
- Fracking Chemicals
- Benzene
- Toluene
- Metaxylene
- Paraxylene
- Orthoxylene
- Cumene
- Cycohexane
- Heavy reformate
- Pseudocumene
- Sure Sol ® 100
- Sure Sol ® 150
- Purified Isophthalic Acid
- Maleic Anhydride
- Trimellitic Anhydride
- Ethylene
- Chemical Grade Propylene
- Polypropylene
- Polyethylene
“In Flint Hills Resources manufacturing plants, various hydrocarbon products are the basic feedstocks. At the refineries, the main feedstock is crude oil. The refineries produce a wide range of transportation fuels for motorists, truckers and the airline industry. In the olefins plants, the company processes natural gas liquids into ethylene and propylene. In the polymers plants, those two products are processed into various forms of olypropylene, which are key ingredients in products such as consumer and healthcare products, packaging and other plastic products. In the aromatics plant, products produced during the crude oil refining process become xylenes, cumenes and other light products. Those products are the building blocks for many other chemicals and plastics.” Source: fhrstage.fhr.com/ehs/certifications.aspx
Koch Carbon LLC and its affiliates globally trade and transport petroleum coke, coal, cement, pulp and paper, sulfur and other related commodities through a network of bulk import/export terminals in the United States and Europe. The C. Reiss Coal Company is a leading supplier of coal and related products typically used in industrial applications or to generate electricity.
Koch Exploration Company LLC and its affiliates acquire, develop and trade petroleum and natural gas properties in the United States, Canada and Brazil.
Koch Oil Sands Operating LLC has leases for 1.1 million acres of Alberta oil fields. The Koch’s are developing a bitumen recovery project known as the Dunkirk In Situ Project which is roughly 60 km West of the Fort McKay native community. Source: The Globe & Mail.
Frac-Chem: is an oilfield chemical manufacturer & wholesale chemical supplier with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing, stimulation and coil tubing chemistries.
Bernie Sanders Speaks About The Koch Brothers
This report from the show The Young Turks explains that the Koch Brothers are backing a new organization trying to stop the rising tide of electric vehicle adoption. This would hurt petroleum producers like the Koch Brothers. The group is likely to run ads attacking the subsidies given to electric cars.
Terrific. Filled with information I’ve wanted to know but didn’t know where to find.
From now on, NO MORE BRAWNY!
I furious that you have so much disregard for the USA. To continuely pollute our country for your finincial gain is appalling.
Also, to try to buy elections is fraud!!! I’d like to see you sit behind bars for the rest of your nasty lives!!!!
This company should be ashamed of their disregard for the people in the United States! It would be wonderful to see them sit in jail and rot for buying their political party. They should be ashamed of their obsession with money and power.
You have lost touch with reality. I guess the millions of people that have made you wealthy don’t mean anything to you. To secretly fund candidates in the name of special interest is disgraceful. I guess money and power are the only thing that matters to most republicans.
This is important research material, in evaluating the influence on Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas. MN Representative Bachmann and the Tea Party, and the Republican electoral victory in November of 2010.
I pledge to boycott all these products and urge as many people as I can to do the same.
Its criminal that our elected officials, and courts have allowed this to continually go on but when you’re getting your summer homes, kids college tuitions, and jobs after elected life paid for by the billionaires why wouldn’t you?? Why would you have any morals? Obviously this is American politics at its finest!!!
As a hardworking member of society, college educated, and a veteran my family and I will be boycotting all of your products. The attack you are supporting against all hardworking middle class Americans is completely unacceptable!!!
I’d really like to know how much they paid in taxes.
Starting immediately, I am not buying any products produced by your company. I have printed the list and urging all of my friends, Via Facebook and on email, to do the same. Since I am from Wisconsin, I am especially disgusted by the way you and the new Gov. have decided to do business. Disgusted by the way, is putting it lightly.
I’m sickened!
Folks,
Please help us in Wisconsin to fight these creeps. The ENTIRE budget agenda is about these guys. They are paying off our puppet of a Governor to take away our rights.
I have printed this list and will carry with me to be sure I never purchase any of the their products. I will also pass this on for others to make informed decisions about their purchases.
Fortunately I don’t use a single of the consumer GP products…and will encourage anyone I know not use them as well. Please share this particular link on Facebook or via email to your list.
Thankfully, we live in an area full of woodlands and untouched prairie. We live a sustainable lifestyle, and many of these products mean nothing to us. Nonetheless, I have printed this off and have emailed over 1,000 friends, colleagues, friends, and neighbors and told them each to spread the word. We ALL can survive just fine without their poison! Do the same!!
I certainly have used some of these items, in the past. I even recognized labels my grandmother has sent me to the store to pick up for her. This list is very helpful in knowing what I won’t be spending money on. I love it when shopping is made simple. These Koch brothers have a place in this world….somewhere…..not in Wisconsin though. Solidarity Forever
Toss Out With Rancid TEA!!!
I’ve put the list next to my shopping list. If the Koch brother’s own it, I’m not buyin’.
Tea-Baggers know that no matter how manytimes they post; there are les of them than there are of us. I will be happy to boycott all Koch products and any associated with Walker supporters and any that support the other Republicans that are trying to break the unions.
Lets see how they like it.
I for one am finally glad to see just how much of our lives these vile men own. Well no more. Boycott everything they own if possible but the best thing is VOTE BABY VOTE. I think the reality of elections have conquences is beginning to hit home. Democrates and Progessives don’t vote in number. Repub’s do. So again VOTE BABY VOTE!
I will check the list of their products before I buy anything. Their ads are insulting. We know what ‘Americans for Prosperity’ stands for.
How many companies in the Koch brothers conglomerate have union shops for the manufacture of their products? Might want to be careful not to hurt fellow union brothers’ jobs with this type of boycott.
well I guess I won’t be buy any of Koch products
anymore it will be difficult to sort out because
so many are popular and used everyday but hey
i can live without them … I like to breath clean
air and I like to voice my opinion and I think we
are only free as long as we have the opportunity
to say no
FILTHY BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!
You guys got blinders on. Lets take a look at what Obama’s bosses Rothschild & Rockefeller Companies Werner Lambert, Bristol Myer Squibb, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Sterling Drug, Sabien Pharma, Merk Pharma, Baxter Pharma, GlaxoSmithKline, ovartis, Amgen, Roche, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Wyeth, GE, Exxon, BP, Mobil, ICX, FLIR, GE/RCA Government communications (L-3 government com…munications), Boeing, Monsanto, GMO Food Industries, All Biogenetic seed companies, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi Group, Wells Fargo, Deutsche Boerse. <<<<<<<
Koch brothers oil company products, paper towls, toilet paper, plastic bags, plastic cups, paper plates, plastic plates, carpet cleaner ect…. Since NAFTA Koch has been regulated heavy on carbon gases. Making useful household items.<<<<<
The American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas industry trade group, will start backing political candidates this year as the U.S. considers repealing $46 billion in subsidies and imposing pollution rules.
The group, whose members include Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., would make donations separately from industry executives and employees, who gave $27.6 million mostly to Republican candidates for Congress last year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. API has paid for advertising on policy issues and to lobby on legislation.
Just to refute one of the lies you told about who supports Obama. Your not worth it but I could probably refute almost all of the companies you named.
I detest what these guys stand for. They give Americans a bad name and I have instructed my entire company to never use any of these products, ever again. Also, we will not specify any of their products in any of our upcoming construction projects.
Every dime we spend is a vote. Once every four years we get to vote on the president – it matters – but every time we buy something, every day, we are voting for who and what we want to support…. we create our world with these votes. So what world do we want to live in?
Why vote for the koch brothers?
i just posted this page to facebook and encourage everyone to share this with your friends
Read ‘The Shock Doctrine’ by Naomi Klein. Do We The People really want America to return to the Age of Robber Barons and hand over democracy to the likes of the Koch Brothers?
Seems to me if the Koch brothers really wanted to endear themselves to Wisconsinites, they should donate 1/10th of their wealth to solve our upcoming $3.6 billion problem.
Thank you so much for publishing this excellent synopsis of the extent of control that Koch Industries exerts over the world.
It clearly illustrates how they could easily influence unscrupulous politicians to ruin our environment for personal greed.
Is there something out there that lists which companies create products we should buy? I would love to have a list of products I can purchase that are made by a company that supports workers, unions, and middle class values.
Is there such a list? If not, who can do the research and make one?
I want to vote with my dollar everyday and never support Koch bros or any other corporation that is against workers again.
The Koch brothers only came into the limelight because an IMPOSTER made a prank phone call to the governor or Wisconsin. Hmmm.
It’s a shame that the rich people of the United States of America really don’t believe in Democracy or the Constitution.
They buy anything from politicians to Supreme Court Justices to make sure that they don’t have to pay their fair share in taxes and also try to limit any power that may cause them any loss in the status of their wealth.
They believe that the Middle Class is not needed anymore and they have taken their work that the middle Class has done and shipped those jobs overseas along with their wealth.
The people or enities who have helped them do this is as follows.
1. The republican party.
2. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
3. Wall Street.
4. The ignorance of the American Public.
5. Parts of the Democractic Party.
6. The big American Banks.
7. Big Oil companies.
Americans of the Middle Class. Think about this. We are an endangered Species! Since Ronald Regan was Govenor and then President!
If we don’t act now we will lose the life that we use to know it to be. You need to divest yourselves of the enities listed above and start with local companies you know.
We have the power of the internet to pass out information that will help the Middle Class to survive.
H.R. Beaudoin
I knew that they had far rreaching tentacles.
If this isn’t a monopoly, then I’m from a different planet.
I thought that there was federal restrictions on monopolies. EXCEPT THE KOCH BROS>
There are plenty of Earth friendly products. Look on the web. Also look for brands available in places like Earth Fare, Whole Foods etc. You may have to pay a little more but until we create a large market that is just the price we have to pay.
I don’t know how these guys can live with themselves. Greed at the expense of others!
@ Post #39
Hellooooooo. We have known about the Koch Bros for quite some time.
Boycott all of the consumer goods nationwide! Make them see what happens when the consumers/WORKERS fight back! They need workers to make money and this can show them why. I for 1 pledge here to never buy another product of theirs.
It should be easy for anyone to look at this list and find one product you have been buying that you can do with out. These guys have been playing us all for suckers. Enough is enough.
Whew! I’m glad I already don’t buy any of those brands but it looks like they supply so many other ingredients, that I may be supporting them whether I like it or not.
George Bush on TV and radio lied to the American public and said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and all his war mongering regeime lied with him..Rumsfeld said..’quote’ we know he has them and we know where they are. George Bush said Quote: ‘we have no evidence that Sassam Huseien had weapons of mass destruction’
Yep, He LIED and should be prosecuted for it and so should the wall street thugs who did an inside job and robbed America.
I have never used any of the products mentioned…I know realisticly that we will never break these bastards backs, just like we will never break any of the other polutters and anti union corporations but some day, maybe not while I’m alive, they will be broken and cut off at the knees.
It is a true statement: What goes around comes around
You guys rock. I’ve posted this to everyone I know and every where I can. Thank you.
Koch usurper of Democracy:
https://sysoutput.tumblr.com/
The Koch brothers activities amount to a long list of major crimes against humanity committed for profit. Nay, more than that; crimes against biological life forms in general
There are too many products here to boycott, and too many industrial products. We need to pick one consumer product and have an impact there.
I say Angel Soft, Quilted Northern, and Soft and Gentle. They are consumer products for which there are ample substitutes, and they have real symbolic value; I wouldn’t wipe my butt with Koch products.
Boycotting will most likely hurt the people employed by the Koch Brothers and the people who sell these products in their stores.
The Koch Brothers will make damned-well sure that their income keeps flowing in – even if they have to lay off some employees and make the rest of them work harder for less money.
AND, their Republican Bullies will make sure their incomes are protected by giving them subsidies and tax breaks.
A boycott is pointless and will damage the wrong people.