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.
Watch the Koch Brothers exposed on Current channel. Money still buys power & influence. But the unified voice of the people will be heard!
I’ll use this list for the opposite purpose that the site owner intends.
Some of those brands are a little bit pricy, but I’m willing to shell out the extra to show support for those who stand up against Marxism and who stand up against anti-truth.
Thanks again for the list !
I too will continue to support the billionaire Koch brothers and all they do to do destroy people and environments. I love being an indenture for the uberrich. Down with society, down with socialism. Up with corporatism.
I am very consciously boycotting any of these products and will forward this to friends. What arrogance surrounds them.
What greed surrounds them and they only want more and more. We need to be very determined in our efforts to go against their money in this election.
It always amazes me when people come back with comments about George Soros… What they don’t seem to think about is, what are the Kochs vs. Soros fighting for? Soros… fighting for fairness and protecting our precious resources and us little folks. Koch Bros. fight to get rid of any regulatory obstacle to them destroying the land, polluting the air and water, abusing employees by taking away any worker rights protection so in their perfect world, we will all basically be day-laborers with low wage, no healthcare, no rights and no way to fight back.
WAKE UP RIGHT-WINGERS! PLEASE! You are being told to be scared of socialism and it’s all a mind-f*ck! Left-wingers are fighting for workers’ rights. Unless you are making over $250,000 a year, you SHOULD BE fighting with us! This isn’t about socialism. But, as long as Rush, Glen and all these other MILLIONAIRES keep getting you to believe it is, they can keep you from fighting for your own interests! They are laughing all the way to the bank. I know you have your pride to keep you from wanting to see that maybe they’ve pulled the wool over your eyes. It’s human nature to want to deny that, and call the other side crazy. However, which would be better? To just be honest with yourself and stop drinking their koolaid, or to continue letting them get you to vote AGAINST your best interest? Please, I beg of you, stop listening to these liars. And, they ARE liars. It is easily proven. The irony is that what these greedy bastards fight for is against THEIR best interests! It’s unsustainable. If the economy collapses, they can’t eat their gold… and they will not survive the toxic water, air and food that their greed created.
If I’m wrong, and you’re right, the worst that happens is we end up with a socialistic society where everybody gets a fair shake but the rich can’t get quite as rich. But, if I’m right and you’re wrong, we will all die because they are poisoning clean water supplies from fracking, the food with GMOs, our air and water through mass production of unnecessary chemicals, and the effects of global warming, not to mention that, in the meantime, our economy will collapse because they have TAKEN from the bottom as much as possible and they can’t keep cutting jobs and wages without shoring up that base. It is unsustainable. We could survive with an economic collapse, we might survive GMOs (with a shortened lifespan), BUT we CANNOT survive without clean water! I am 51 and just this summer know of at least 10 people in my age group who have died or are dying of cancer. We’ve got to stop allowing the massive chemical pollution/destruction of our food, water, land, air before we all perish.
I have read from all of the people who call themselves Americans who support the Koch Brothers efforts to destroy this country and what it stands for. You are the same people who have gotten rich by climbing on the backs of others all the while stuffing your pockets along the way. If you do not care about the enviorment, your childrens future or the country then please leave, no one wants you here. You may find yourself hunted one day.
What is exactly wrong with what the brothers are doing? I think they are providing plenty of Domestic jobs and want to provide more. Why are you trying to destroy them? Last time I checked, making a profit was not a crime. Do you really want the brothers to take their companies over seas? along with their jobs? Do you want to buy Chinese products instead of theirs?
a federal grand jury in Corpus Christi, Texas returned a 97-count indictment against Koch Industries Inc., Koch Petroleum Group for violating federal clean air and hazardous waste laws, due to the release of at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled, untreated carcinogenic benzene. http://www.justice.gov
March 2000, Koch petroleum which operates a refinery in Rosemount, Minn., was sentenced to pay a $6 million criminal fine and pay an additional $2 million in remediation costs. This is the largest federal environmental fine ever paid in Minnesota. Koch admitted that it negligently discharged 200,000 – 600,000 gallons of aviation fuel into a wetland and an adjoining waterway. Koch Industry foundations have contributed (2005-2008) nearly $25 million to organizations that oppose clean energy and climate policy. That does not include oil and gas lobbying of $37.9 million. For more info on Koch Industries’ funding of Climate Denial Groups
WE NEED CLEAN AIR AND WATER TO LIVE
I recently watched two documentaries on the Koch brothers’; what a shame that they can continue to pollute our politicans, people, and worst of all our enviroment, all in the name of the almighty dollar and Americans for Prosperity.
The Koch’s and those who share their views are actually promoting socialism; think about it…they do it in such a round-about-way that it’s not going to be seen until it is finally achieved. How much power, money and control do corporations need in this country? We all are free tto earn and achieve all that we want, but at the expense of the enviroment and people, no, it is not our right or earned privilage. They have no concept of what it like to live within,or below ones means. If the brother’s had any empathy or even sympathy they might not be so agressive in their agenda. I intend to boycott all their products, but for sure something will get in through the back door, they own and control SO MUCH of what we need and use in our daily lives. Such a shame, such a waste of what could really be accomplished with such riches.
It is NECESSARY that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of CORPORATE FUNDS directly or indirectly for political purposes;—it is still more–NECESSARY that such LAWS should be thoroughly enforced.’ Theodore Roosevelt
Let this people alone the brothers are being AMERICANS nothings is wrong in being AMERICAN
They just work hard. We shoul all do the same, just work hard.
For most people this is a battle of ideologies, i.e. if you make a ton of money and vote Republican you MUST be for America. If you’re suffering with medical conditions, low pay (or no pay), increasing taxes, rising prices, etc. and you just want a fair shake you MUST be some sort of Commie! Alas, in fact it is just the opposite. There is nothing more Fascist than removing from the public their protection under the law as pertains to healthcare, working conditions, price-fixing, unethical financial dealings, etc. You can call the head of the country whatever you want but if the government devolves into just a bunch of Yes-Men bowing to the power of the sacred American DOLLAR than you end up with a despot.
The meek shall inherit the earth, so obviously the Koch brothers and their rabid followers are disqualified. Their goal is total corporate dictatorship, and we have to stop them at all costs.
Why would want to fight environmental regulations? This is our future we are talking about! Think of your kids future and grandchildren. Do you them breathing toxic fumes and living in dumps?
Thanks for the list of Kock Brothers products. Now I know which product TO BUY.
This kind of ‘money’ is the root of the worst kind of evil——–selfishness disguising itself as enterprise—FASCISM masquarading as community involvement. These were the underpinnings that sparked the French Revolution.
Working hard? tell that to the employies and the neighbors that has cancer. That the Koch brothers won’t help pay for after they dumped crap into our enviorment Is it the american way to buy politicans? or get charges reduced to One count when bush was in office and then you won’t want to pay for any goverment medical for these people your paying anyway! we have to get back to basics. work hard give our employiers a good days work for a good days wage and give EVERYONE the chance to live a good healthy life.With our employers giving us safe,work place far wages, benifits, and a future for our familys.
RIGHT-WINGERS, PLEASE TAKE NOTE …who ever wrote this Thank you, could not have said this better!
Pretty scary when you read the list of products we buy from these charcters that hide in the shadows of their SUPER PAC backing the REPUGNICAN PRETENDER running for president ‘LITTLE MITTY ROMNEY.’ The clueless poor little rich boy who hides his money in the Caymans, pays less taxes % wise than most if not all ‘HARD WORKING MIDDLE CALSS WORKERS’ do. Take this list of products to the stoes with you and BOYCOTT them. Buy anything but what they own and produce. The only thing they worship is money so that is the only way to hurt them. Shut off the $$$$$.
Re$i$t corporate greed. Withhold your $.
thank god for the koch brothers they are true
american patriots, I will only buy angel soft
tiolet paper from now on
P.S any one who votes for Obama is mentially
disturbed
I will speak against the Koch brothers on facebook and to my community on how they are trying to destroy the American people
The earned income tax credit (EITC) and the child tax credit (CTC) previously supported by Democrats and Republicans are now under attack from Koch funded Heritage Foundation. Ronald Reagan called it ‘the best anti-poverty, the best pro-family, the best job creation measure to come out of Congress.” You can bet Romney will agree with Koch Bros and not Reagan.
Wake up you ignorant Koch supporters! They are not only destroying our democracy – but they are one of the biggest ‘welfare kings’ in our country! All while fighting any government that works for the general welfare of ‘we the people’.
For all you Koch brother supporters who claim that they are great Americans who ‘work hard’ and ‘create jobs’ here in America…what about true free enterprise where money doesn’t buy political favors (and a whole political party)? How about buying products from other ‘hard working’ great Americans that don’t pollute our air, water, and politics?
Can’t believe how soft angel soft tiolet paper is recomend it to every one, the dixie paper plates
also great, I wish koch industries would open a plant in my comumity, could use the jobs here thanks to Barry
P.S liberlism is a mental disorder
Wow. Anthony sure is a smart one. It’s called a dictionary, genius. Look into it.
Its so sad that the Koch Brothers have nothing else to do with their money, but buy people in the government which really american trusted in them and for their party. Every Democrate and Republicans should speak out and boycotts these products and services. Its does not matter who you vote for. But Damn DON’T BE BROUGHT AND THE LIE IN THE PEOPLE FACE WHO ELECT YOU.
I AM VOTING FOR OBAMA BECAUSE IS HE IS NOT BROUGHT AND SHOULD BE GIVING THE CHANCE TO PUT THE ECOMONY BACK TOGETHER WITHOUT THE LIE AND FRAUD OF PEOPLE WHO GOT BOUGHT BY THE KOCH BROTHERS LIKE ROMMEY AND RYAN. JUST A DAMN SHAME.
I just read the story about the Koch Brothers planning on FIRING THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEE’S if Obama gets re-elected. That is the most messed up thing an employer could do to their employees, fire them over something they don’t have control over. So guess what? I’m going to start getting everyone I know, and everyone they know, and so on, to start boycotting the companies Koch Brothers own.
Telling your employees that if Obama wins, they will loose their jobs and sending out packets with scare tactics is about as crooked as you can get. BOYCOTT KOCH BROTHERS!
It is hard to believe that this is 2012, this sounds like the 1950’s, these people are so full of hate that it makes me shudder at the thought of them getting what they want, to run the government their way…what a sad commentary on these ‘unted states’ of america. they have no thought for those who have not had the privledges that they have gotten on the backs of the very people that they are so willing to criticize.
But one thing that I know that they don’t that is God is still in charge, the real God not them, the god that they have created.
Thank you for making me aware of all these wonderfully products I will be purchasing
Thank you.
To Kara
The ones living in toxic fumes and crap are Cuba, Peru, Ecuador, Salvador, now Venezuela. That is the forward progress that obama and the democrats want to take us to.
Look it up. Go there visit the new socialist countries of Latin America.
Just a question to the CEO, how can you dictate who a person can vote for. Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Therefore, you should not be allowed to threaten your employees if they vote for whom ever they want to. You all have a blessed day. The Just Shall Live By Faith.
Thank you for this wonderful list. I use Sparkle paper towels and they are fantastic. They provide good monetary value for a quality product. I look forward to purchasing more of the items on this list.
God bless the free markets.
Antony says, ‘I wish koch industries would open a plant in my comumity, could use the jobs here thanks to Barry’. Yeah, Obama is the reason you lost your job.
You might want to know that communities that have Koch plants in them have a 40% cancer rate due to the poisons they put in the air and water.
And you know, there are a lot of products that are far better than Koch Products and the company doesn’t pollute and kill people. Isn’t free enterprise lovely!!
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We have already stopped buying all Koch Brothers products. Who would buy from the lame Koch Brothers because everyone knows they are radical greedy fools who should be shipped out of the country to live in a desert?
We have stopped buying any Koch Brother products and I have have shared the lists on line. The Koch brothers are un-American and are trying to buy our country . No thank you!
I use to work for a company that required us to vote for R.R. or they would move out of State. Guess what, they moved anyway and sold them selves to a another company. I will never buy any Koch products…..Tell a friend !!!!
Since the brothers like to push their weight around, the latest being threatening to their employees if they don’t vote for republican candidates, I think we can equally push our weight around and boycott their products
The Koch brothers should be honest. Wear a white sheet and coned hat when dictating to employees how they should vote.
Consumers who are not klan members should be outraged, and demonstrate that outrage by not purchasing any product manufactured by the companies with which the infamous two are affilliated.
May God help them….
May GOD have mercy on your souls.
This is for the clever folks who want to buy Koch’s products to support them. David Koch ran for VP on the Libertarian ticket in 1980, far-right of Reagan. The Party platform was to ABOLISH Social Security, welfare, the CIA, the FBI, and the public school system.
Did you know the Koch’s have donated millions to get a Republican in the White House and EVEN MORE to elect Romney?
Did you know the Koch money backs candidates like Boehner, Ryan, and Cantor?
Did you know R&R wanting to privatize Social Security will ABOLISH it, as we know it? Even though, today it is solvent until 2037?
Social Security was meant to be a guaranteed retirement income for seniors. Let’s keep it that way, and keep the Koch’s out of the White House (via Romney).
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The declaration of these Trusts and special interests moneys is worthy of inspection. Kock Trust is not even in the top 100 of United States IRS hiding Wealth from government Trust. Minnow in comparison. The top Ten Trusts loose misplaces more money than this paltry trust spends each year.
These Brothers and their associates have too much power. Their money has helped paralyze congress, suppress voter rights, infiltrate US Supreme court decisions and engage corporate legislation which has subjected the intent of the electorate null and void.
The Koch Brothers and their corporate accomplices should be restricted to the business of doing business, which is supplying goods and services, and let the legislators do their duty of serving the people and the Country.
I think the Koch Brothers are some of the most immoral people in the world. The problem, there so many more of the same type. Romney and this type of greed are hoping to run our country. If so, they will turn America into a country of demoralized extreme poor who are at the mercy of the very rich. I told my family long ago that Reagan’s policies were the beginning of a country of have and have not (masters and slaves). I believe this more than ever before. I am retired and pay taxes. I know many people that worked many years and lost everything due to the wealth of those who think they are our saviors. Don’t preach religious belief when greed and resentment toward the less fortunate are your platform. Koch Brothers and others of your greedy group are everything a FREE world despises.
You can smile now , you are true evil. But i smile you two are getting old your time not long and then you meet God , When you die. What a thought. You might want to be big, and clean up pollution with all your money. And Become known for good. I sure would not want to be you when you meet God , i am so happy to be me. I do not destroy for money how small is that? Really , Really small , small little men. you are.
List of Geo-Pac products contained 3 items I’ve purchased in the past, but will never buy again. There are many far superior products on the market. Angel Soft feels like the old Sears catalog used in out houses years ago. There’s nothing great about Sparkle paper towels, either. After trying them once, I thought store brands were better. Don’t see anything I’ll be missing.
Hum? The Koch Brother’s and Prop 30…. A conection……. (NO ON 30!).
The Koch brothers are trying anything to send Romney into the White House. For the past four years, they have fed lies to the American public, put restraining forces into the Congress and tried to sabotage policies of the administration.
If you do not want to be an accomplice, vote for Obama. He may not have done a great job at the economy (nobody could, given the dire state of what it was four years ago), he has integrity and a good heart, which the other side doesn’t have.
Do not vote for short-term gains, we all have to pay a much heavier price later and this will affect not only you and I, but also our next generations.