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.
I only pray that some avenging angels will catch up with that crowd and pour their poisons down their throats. ASAP.
For every product listed I can think of an alternative except one: OIL
Will boycott their products
Lets hurt them as much as we can by boycotting their products.
Racist organization I will not support ur company. I will spread the word. Your company stinks.
My goal is to boycott anything and everything tied to Koch.
The Koch brothers and their money have too much influence on policies and politics. Two men influencing many lives in negative ways, because they have such great wealth. I worry about the future of democracy. The Citizen United decision, how they pressure their employees to vote, Wisconsin politics etc, are examples of an oligarchy not a democracy. I will boycott all of their products.
The koch brothers represent everything that is wrong about the super rich and the citizens united decision. Their hearts have died but their bodies and mean spirits live on. Many of them hide behind the words ‘true patriots’, ‘capitalism’ and the ‘american way’. But, many of us now recognize these words as masks to hide greed and wrong doing. Especially, when they come out of the mouths of those who don’t go into battle but sit back in safety and make money off war, or those who don’t understand the limitations of minimum wage or lack of medical care for their loved ones. I will NOT use their products.
Thank you for the list of their products. I may be only a middle class mom trying to eek out a living, however this is one consumer that will not add my hard earned money to their evil empire and I highly suggest others do the same. I will post these products on my refrigerator as a reminder of what NOT to buy when grocery shopping.
we as Americans can be the straw that breaks the back of the vipres .Give backthe poison . remind they are too big to fail . Join the boycott .
not only are they poised to hijack our country and if we have any shreds of democracy left, if they have their way we will have none. plus they are killing us w/rheir polluting/emitting – contributing to global warming ways. they are EVIL. George Mason Univ will hear from me. it is not much, but if everyone who despises these dudes boycots their products as much as possible, it will be a statement.
and how about giving up eating meat?? it could be putting $$ in their pockets.
They own way too much consumer business for any consumer product boycott to be effective,
Instead, vote against all political candidates that they support, and any candidate that currently votes for any issues that they endorse. The most effective way to fight these scum is to nullify the power for their money with the ballot box.
Sweet! Thanks for the list 🙂 I’ll make it a point to buy all these products where possible.
Purity Products Koch Brother supporter? I buy Purity Products, but will stop if this is true.
Becoming aware of where people’s money interests lie is the first step. The power of the boycott is still with the people. Boycott (as much as possible) these products.
thanks for the list. I want to make sure I’m buying the products.
What do you want us to do? buy chinese products made by people with zero morality?
I think you guys are funded by arabs and chinese.
They’re monsters…. stunning in sheer size, in their disregard for the environment, their disregard for everything but corporate greed. They make Walmart look small.
They are disgusting human beings.
God said to Love each Other. If we Pray for each other with Love more then we judge then that means GOD HAS HEARD OUR CRY. NOW PASS PRAYER ON FOR ALL OF US TO LOVE EACH OTHER. It’s not my veiw to juge but to PRAY.
Are there any apps that can be used by people shopping so that they can not buy one of these products at a store?
Koch Industries make the best products. They are a wonderful family that support all American people and help many firemen and policemen. They donate to the communities where they own businesses. Most of their business are unionized. They have a right to spend their own money on what ever they want…just like the democrats. Just because they sponsor a different party or agree with you doesn’t make them bad….it’s the authoritarian people that doesn’t have an open mind that cause all the problems.
I have been Boycotting the Koch’s for about a year now and will continue to do so. I have told Koch Industries that they can add one more person, who refuses to buy their products, to their list.
Boy, oh boy. The Koch Brothers have a load of you people fooled. Adele-‘A wonderful family’? You either work for them or are related to them. THE Kochs WANT TO RULE THE WORLD. And they have all of you blindly following them, but you won’t bother to check the facts and you will never admit you could be wrong. That’s the same thing that’s wrong with the Repubs…following blindly behind your leaders, just like the Germans did Hitler…never bothering to check the facts and always believeing everything they say, even though they could be lying. I don’t know if it’s lazyness, no reading skills or just not caring what will happen to you and our country when you allow the Facsists Corporations rule the U.S.
Good to know what products these f*ckers are hiding behind. As a sidenote; has anybody ELSE noticed how many of the Koch(svckers) products are ANUS-RELATED?
Typical assholes!
My aunt Suzan told me about a incident in some national park in Montana (I forgot which one) and they caused sever pollution damage.they had people rope it off and wouldn’t let the governor of the state in.the governor.and the worse part is this was cleared from the news the next morning.I’ve tried to tell people in my school about this bastards but like 4 people cared.out of most of the school of 1,264 kids.I fear for the future.
I will be sure to support them at every opportunity!
ARE THESE ASS WIPES RELATED TO MONSANTO??THEY ALL SEEM TO WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD BY CONTROLLING THE FOOD SUPPLY,OIL AND GASES AS WELL AS OTHER PRODUCTS.UNFORTUNATELY FOR US,THEY HAVE THEIR OWN EVIL AGENDA AND IT DOESN’T INCLUDE THE WELFARE OF OUR COUNTRY.
I agree with what Deb says about Adele, she has to be related or working for the fascist Koch Brothers and it will show in the future that the people will speak when we take these two brothers down through the Democratic way. They are just like Hitler,Mussolini and Prescott Bush. That is George’s grandfather just in case no one knows who financed German Industrialist Fritz Thyssen who was with Hitler at the time. Prescott Bush was the CEO of United Banking Corporation during WWII that was financing Thyssen and FDR passed a law that if you are dealing with the enemy you will be federally prosecuted. Needless to say he stopped financing him.
all conservatives should buy koch bros products and shun the liberal companies who bow down to all the liberal groups who always shape their policies.
Here’s what’s really fueling politics.
I can’t comprehend how ANYONE, Republican or Democrat, can possibly defend these monsters… they are greedy evil bastards who need to get their filthy hands out of the American political system. Power to the people!
These are the men who are trying to buy the election this year (2012). They have no qualms of violating EPA laws, and not maintaining their pipelines (petroleum), causing damage to the environment. How long are we, the public, going to put up with their general disrespect of the average American citizen???
These guys proudly support the American flag and our economy and their goods and services greatly contribute to our elevated standard of living and I am thankful for their efforts.
Texas is screwed. Look at the link provided under Pollution – they’re posioning 27 out of 50 states – and Texas has so many cities/towns listed, I wonder if there’s anyone there without some toxins in their body from Kock industries!!
Knowledge is power. Thanks for sharing.
I hope to see Koch Industries brought it/their various knees. I don’t think I’ll live that long.
It’s sad when wealth distorts one’s views to the point it apparently has with the Koch fools.
The Koch Brothers aren’t even real Americans. Real Americans care about the future of the nation. The Koch Brothers don’t care who gets hurt/poisoned/etc. How very sad.
Thanks for the heads up so I can help line their pockets. Unlike most of you pathetic losers I actually have a job and a TON of money. I doubt they will miss the welfare recipient crowd posting here. Now back to your OWS meeting half wits!
I curse the idiots who support the Koch Brothers. THEY are the ones driving the U.S. to hell. I do my best to avoid Koch products, but it’s nearly impossible. Sad we don’t have more American-made products we can support that won’t poison us.
From what I have been reading these brothers’ products need to be boycotted. They are trying to rule us like feudal lords ruled over their serfs.
Where’s my pitchfork? Somebody help me find my pitchfork.
So thankful for entrepreneurs that employ so many and debunk the myths that our liberal environmentalists try to shove down our throat. GO KOCK BROTHERS! I plan to buy more Brawny & Quilted Northern to help your profits.
How come no one is bagging on George Clooney for raising money for aww screw it you know what we are all sheep. We keep the incumbents in office expecting a different result and never any accountability. We are screwed each and every one of us. We get the government we deserve and instead of voting for and by the people we are voting to and against the people every time now. God help America.
George Soros anyone? So the Koch brothers are ridiculed for supporting their candidates? How about the many liberals that Soros funds?
”’During the 2003–2004 election cycle, Soros donated $23,581,000 to various 527 groups dedicated to defeating President Bush.”’
Yawn….
The truth is that you and your children and children’s children will experience increasing cancer incidents, weather-related disasters, and water toxicity. When u finally need the govt’s help as an ungrateful brat, there will be no sufficiently funded public services to help you. You will be broke from medical bills because Medicare will be cut. The Koch brothers will eat golden gilded grapes from their ivory tower and be helicopter lifted out of the flood. This is their dream. And supporters of them are retarded.
Koch brothers are the devil and I would rather wipe my rear end with sandpaper then use any of there products
America’s not broke, it is being robbed by the likes of the Koch family. Make people sick so you can sell them stuff they wouldn’t have needed if you hadn’t made them sick in the first place. Now that’s a heck of a business model. A true free market economy would be great in a perfect world. The Koch family only serves to remind us that we are not living in that perfect world.
It is to bad that scumbags like the Koch brothers can get away with so much because they use money to pay fines and bribe whoever gets in there way. They pollute the environment and do not care one bit on who they hurt.
Scumbags like this should be thrown into jail for all the dirty deals they make through there lobbyists. I wonder how much money they bribe the Washington politicians behind closed doors? This scum can’t take there money with them when they die and will be tormented in HELL FOR ETERNITY!
Fines do not work……JAIL TIME is the only answer.
Where the hell have I been? I have no idea who they are. Channel surfing and came across a show called Koch brothers exposed , Damn are they really that bad? Why are they not exposed on the news more often ? I’m watching you koch boys.
It is so sad to watch the documentary and to see that people really agree with their views.. working and feeding your familes is NOT enough nowadays..they make so much money, they RUN the country how they please without no drawwbacks and WE AS FOOLS sit back and watch…..WOW