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
In this 17-minute speech from 2014, Senator Sanders discusses the Koch Brothers and their influence on politics, which has only increased since the Citizens United decision eliminated limits on campaign spending. Sanders goes over the Koch brothers’ positions. Asks Sanders: “What do they want? Why are they spending so much money on politics? What do they stand for?” He focuses on the Koch Brothers’ desire to repeal security net programs like Social Security.
Koch Brothers Products: Pipelines
Koch Pipeline and its affiliates own or operate about 4,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas liquids and chemicals. Koch Alaska Pipeline Company owns an approximate 3 percent interest in the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, as well as a has a 28 percent interest in Colonial Pipeline Company, owner and operator of the world’s largest-volume refined products pipeline.
Koch Brothers Products: Fertilizer
Koch Fertilizer and its affiliates have the capability to manufacture, market and distribute more than 10 million tons of nitrogen fertilizer products annually. They distribute to dealers, so their product has many a label. “Fertilizer today is an intensely industrial business more akin to oil refining or chemical production.” Source: www.kochind.com/files/121610EagleFertilizerHelpsKochGrow.pdf
Koch Brothers Products: Equipment
Koch-Glitsch and its affiliates are global leaders in the design, manufacture and installation of mass transfer and mist elimination equipment. The company’s products are found in refineries and chemical plants worldwide.
Koch Membrane Systems develops and manufactures membrane separation systems for a variety of applications worldwide, including membranes for microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis.
John Zink Hamworthy Combustion and its affiliates are global leaders in ultra-low emission process burners, boiler burners, duct burners, flares and thermal oxidizers. The companies are also global suppliers of flare gas/vapor recovery and vapor combustor systems.
Molex makes electronic connectors, sensors and other electronic gear.
What You Don’t Know About The Koch Brothers
Koch Brothers Products: Cattle
Koch Ag and Energy Solutions operates three ranches with a total of 15,000 head of cattle in Kansas, Montana, and Texas. “Matador Ranch in Texas offers a number of hunting packages that include first-class accommodations. Everything is provided to ensure an enjoyable experience.” Source: www.kochind.com
Koch Brothers Services
Koch Supply & Trading companies around the world trade and provide risk management services in crude oil; refined petroleum products; natural gas and gas liquids; gas, power and emissions; industrial metals; and other commodities and financial instruments.
Optimized Process Designs LLC provides consulting, engineering, design, procurement, fabrication and construction services for the natural gas and gas processing industries worldwide. OPD has been the general contractor on some of the largest natural gas plants built in the U.S.
Koch Knight LLC and its affiliates are leaders in acid proof solutions. The companies offer construction, engineering and services through a global network of manufacturing and outsourcing facilities. Their products, made from state-of-the-art ceramics and plastic materials, are available worldwide.
Invista provides the resources and know-how to deliver world-scale technology for licensing to a growing portfolio of technologies in the polyester, polyurethane and nylon value chains.
Koch Brothers European Brands
- Colhogar®
- Delica®
- Demak’Up®
- Inversoft®
- Kitten Soft®
- Lotus®
- Moltonel®
- Nouvelle®
- Okay
- Tenderly®
- Tutto®
Source: kochind.com
Pollution by Koch Brothers Companies
Koch Industries emits 24 million metric tons of greenhouse gases a year. Koch Industries is the nation’s 13th largest polluter/emitter according to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute. See detailed emissions breakdowns: peri.umass.edu (www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index)
Koch Industries spent a total of $37.9 million on oil and gas lobbying during 2006 to 2009. Source: sourcewatch.org
According to the International Forum on Globalization, Charles and David Koch are America’s single largest source of private money for attacks against environmental protections. They have spent over $643 million to block or rollback legal protections for clean air, clean energy, clean water, and other environmental issues through sketchy scientific research, lobbying lawmakers, contributing to electoral candidates’ campaigns, media manipulation, etc. Source: kochcash
Petroleum coke (a byproduct of tar sands refining) has been irritating numerous residents in both Chicago and Detroit. Koch Carbon is storing enormous quantities of petroleum coke on the banks of Chicago’s Calumet River and Michigan’s Detroit River. The ever growing piles await processing, but refineries cannot keep up with the quantity. Source: thinkprogress
A routine aerial inspection found Koch Pipeline Co. spilled 400 gallons of crude oil in Texas in late October, 2013.
Environmental Charges Against Koch
November, 2014: the city of North Pole, Alaska filed suit against refinery owner Flint Hills Alaska Resources: “During the times that the defendants owned or operated the refinery, the defendants caused or allowed numerous and/or continuous releases of hazardous substances into the groundwater located beneath the refinery, and failed to contain or remediate the hazardous substances,” the lawsuit states. “Ultimately, these hazardous substances have migrated off the refinery property and have contaminated the groundwater down gradient of the refinery and within the city, including wells owned by the city and supplying drinking water to the city’s inhabitants. The presence of sulfolane contamination in the city’s groundwater has rendered that groundwater unfit for human consumption and endangers the public health or welfare, or fish, animals, vegetation or any other part of the natural habitat in which it is found,” the lawsuit states. Source: newsminer.com
December 2006: Flint Hill Resources fined nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10 separate violations of the Clean Air Act at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another $60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations. yosemite.epa.gov
May 2001: Koch Industries paid $25 million to the federal government to settle the federal lawsuit that found the company had improperly taken more oil than it had paid for from federal and Indian land. A federal jury found that Koch Industries had stolen oil from government and American Indian lands and had lied about its purchases more than 24,000 times. Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
September 2000: 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. In April 2001, the company reached a $20 million settlement in exchange for admitting to covering up environmental violations at its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Source: 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. In addition, their way of recovering the fuel (a year and a half later) destroyed a portion of the surrounding ecosystem and wildlife habitat. In a separate offense, Koch dumped a million gallons of wastewater with high ammonia content on the ground between November 1996 and March 1997 and also increased its flow of wastewater into the Mississippi River on weekends when no one monitored discharges. These actions allowed Koch to circumvent the weekly monitoring and reporting requirements of its wastewater discharge permit. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and was prosecuted by the U. S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota. Source: www.ehso.com
January 2000: Koch Pipeline agreed to a $35 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the State of Texas as fines for the firm’s three hundred oil spills (300 million gallons) in Texas and five other states going back to 1990. Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
August 1996: Koch’s Sterling butane pipeline had a leak in Lively, Texas, on August 24, 1996. Two teenagers on the way to report the leak drove into the unseen butane cloud, and were killed when the gas exploded and burned. The National Transportation Safety Board concluded that severe external pipeline corrosion was the cause of the failure. Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
Koch Brothers: Climate Change Denial
A March 2010 Greenpeace report shows that 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 — Source: GreenPeace’s report “Koch Industries Funding the Climate Denial Machine” pdf at greenpeace.org
In the August, 2010 New York Magazine article ‘Covert Operations,‘ oil tycoon David Koch was quoted as saying, global warming will be a good thing for the planet and will help “support enormously more people because a far greater land area will be available to produce food.” Source: newyorker.com
Koch Brothers: Revenue
- Koch Industries brings in $115 billion in revenue annually.
- Charles Koch has a net worth of over $42 billion.
- David Koch also has a net worth of $42 billion. The Koch brothers’ combined net worth is $84 billion.
- Charles Koch has called the recent push to raise the minimum wage ‘an obstacle to prosperity’. forbes
Koch Brothers: Voting Rights
Since the Citizen’s United decision, corporations can now attempt to influence their employees’ votes. The Koch Brothers jumped on that band wagon right away and mailed out lists of Koch supported candidates to their 50,000 employees during the last election. See info and a copy of a recommended election packet at thenation.com
Koch Brothers: University Affairs
They give as long as they can pick the teachers. See “Billionaire’s role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions” at kochwatch.org
Not Just Florida State…Utah, West Virginia, etc… Source: insidehighered.com
The Mercatus Center is a conservative Think Tank at George Mason University’s Arlington campus. It is a university-based research center that makes its research findings available to the media and public policy makers. According to GreenPeace the Mercatus Center has received over 10 million dollars worth of funding from the Koch Brothers. Mercatus also fights environmental regulation, opposes clean energy legislation and lobbys to prevent curbs on industrial pollution. Sources: greenpeace.org, mercatus.org
List of Koch Organizations
- Koch Family Foundations
- Koch Network
- Freedom Partners
- Americans for Prosperity
- American Encore
- 60 Plus
- Generation Opportunity
- Knowledge and Progress Fund
- DonorsTrust
- Donors Capital
- TC4 Trust
Koch Brothers Oppose Electric Cars
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.
CB says
I already ‘boycott’ these products by shopping at my co-op and fair-trade businesses. I haven’t seen the inside of a Walmart in over 5 years, and I’ll be much more aware when shopping at Home Despot, thanks to this article.
What else can we do to REALLY send a message to these bastards?
Shane Keller says
Sage, freeing slaves hurts those slaves left. Hmmm. Maybe you want to rethink that ‘Stay dominated by greedy bastards’ belief system.
Boycotting means making a choice in alignment with being responsible for the impact of one’s choices upon the earth, all living beings, our human family and our so called democracy (which is kinda about choice).
Putting out arguments that disregard responsibility and choice is kind of a fatalistic stance. I’m just sayin’
LT says
All this hate against the Koch brothers and George Soros is a Angel right? Who cares if a few left wingers don’t but their TP? Lol!
Kristin Knupfer says
I also pledge to boycott Koch Brother product, no problem. I have put together a list which I carry in my purse. We have a voice, we are the consumer. But what about the big ticket item, oil.
whatacrock! says
We need our own special Koch Bros./Walker toilet paper. Actual TP with pictures of their mugs. I would LOVE to wipe my butt with their ugly faces!
GOV Street Walker says
Please spend 20 minutes and listed to the entire phone call between WI GOV and assumed Davis Koch. Plus, the GOV claims on his website bio to be ‘the son of a preacher’ This man needs prayer, because he has sold his soul to the corporate devil. Seriously, pray for Scott Walker.
Anonymous says
You people are nuts. These guys have done more for providing jobs then Obama could ever dream of doing. They provide lots of products that people need. What have any of you fools ever accomplished.
harriette ald says
buy the stock & GO to the annual meeting. Getting fined, having a bad reputation, etc., can’t be good for long term gains.
SILVERFOX says
Working people everywhere should boycott the Kochs and put them out of business. Maybe honest entreprenuers will arise to take over their share of the market. When workers have no voice they have no rights. It doesn’t matter how many jobs they create if we go back to the’Barons’ of yesteryear.
Mary says
god help us middle class hard working tax paying voting human beings…
Mike says
Thanks for the list. I will make sure not to purchase any of these products in the future. Companies with political agendas should be scrutinized closely.
They complain about taxes, when they pay almost nothing or pay the lowest rates in the developed world. Then, they throw the burdens of government on the lower and middle classes, while transporting their jobs to countries that pay an average of .33/day.
The Koch Bros. and wealthy capitalists like them will always want to reduce their labor and production costs. That they’ve bought the government officials to do so should be of concern to all of us. Pure corporate control will wreck the American dream, not make it possible.
janesvillecomments says
Now I know which products to buy to support Governor Walker. I can see why the Koch brothers are so against the Democratic Party – they manufacture fertilizer too.
Tony says
Some Democrats may manufacture organic manure. But these Tea Partiers make chemical fertilizers which pollute and harm long-term. The Koch Brothers rape and pillage our resources for profit for the few (or rather two).
Jake Terpstra says
As Lord Akton said, ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’
Anonymous says
Do believe I’ll make a list and avoid the products I might think of using in my capacity as a consumer. Good grief! They manufacture so much!!!!!
martin L. garon says
these men need to be brought to trial & prosecuted for their actions. iwhen found guilty they should be given a sentence commensurate with their crimes, maybe life without parole would mbe a good idea. they are waging war on the people of our country & should be treated as war criminals.
Elia Basurto says
The Koch Brothers have been thieves that will never have enough because they are afraid, but they have been exposed in Wisconsin. We do not buy their products and we will pass the word to others not to consume what they sell.
If one of them donates monies to a hospital because there he got treated of cancer, how come he does not feel the urgency of others to have the same quality treatments? We need quality access to health care services not only in that particular hospital but all over the nation. We DO NOT WANT TO LIVE OF HIS CHARITY. We want Public Health Reform and health services for everybody. Single Payer health care is the way to really improve the public health of this nation!
poppin john says
Koch brothers buy votes by the truckload by means of disguised ads, and massive political donations. check links to Bradley Foundation, John Birch Society,especially original founders, Gov. Walker and his campaign chairman, Americans for Prosperity, Dick Armey,Tea Party etc. It seems that the Koch’s father and the Bradley brothers were original charter members of the UNTRA RIGHT JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY….HAPPY HUNTING
Paul says
The Koch brothers are a couple of rich skumbags who buy votes with their ill earned money.
Steve H says
One word for what they do ‘Disgusting’
Amy says
I don’t buy their products! We need to stop buying their products! Besides so many of us don’t have jobs how can we buy their crap to begin with. They need to go see it in some other country because we don’t want or need their products here! They need us, we don’t need them! DOWN WITH THE Koch Brothers — oh, I’m sorry, I mean Cck Brothers!
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Midori says
Happy to say that I have rarely ever bought anything from this list (besides fuel, obviously) and will proudly continue to avoid these products.
How can we call ourselves free with bought elections? How can we call ourselves brave when the cowardly few sleep safely on piles of gold like medieval dragons and so many have lost their homes and livelihood?
Anonymous says
A great list … I will certainly avoid all these products in future.
Anonymous says
GP product.
Bob says
I like a lot the products they make. Most of you live in houses built with there products and use there other products every day. Look if you walk every where you go ,dont vacation on cruise ships, fly to any other place in the world, grow your own food and wipe with your finger keep making flat earth coments otherwise stop whining. Enjoy the benifits of the time in wich you live the goverment will keep these guys in line and fine them so you will get your goverment check. Thanks
Anonymous says
Besides the commonly known Koch brands do they manufacture any store brand products? I.E. Target, CVS, various grocery chains?
This is a really good question. I would assume so. I will do some research to try to find out…
joan Pierotti says
Thank you, thank you, thank you for compiling this list of products that details the wretched handiworks of the fifth richest billionaires in the world—the obscene Koch brothers. There’s not much I personally can do, but I can boycott their products and send this list to everyone I know.
Anonymous says
A huge list, but every nonpurchase counts.
Jim says
Thank-you for putting this list together! I am happy to know that I buy many of the products that put people to work in our country!
Reality Check says
Snort! proglodytes boycott …everything!
Anonymous says
These people are a black blot on the planet. If they are allowed to continue their pillage of the earth, we are to blame.
As for the comments that if their products are boycotted, it will lay off many people–
that won’t matter when the earth has nothing more to give up.
nativevoicde says
In an alley under the bridge lives a poor person in a box. Please go ask that person to pay you $10 an hour to sweep the area. With out rich people good or bad there would be no jobs. Americans need jobs. With hard work a person can become as rich as the next person. Look at the people screaming anti-capitalist propaganda …they are the rich or getting rich off of a scheme. Wake up people, free your minds. We are loosing are freedoms to ideologies.
Brent D. Gardner, CLU, ChFC says
Thank you for this list. Now I know exactly what products to buy so that I can keep more Americans gainfully employed and continue to support freedom loving capitalists.
Harry Hodag says
Without rich people there would be no jobs.’ Really? when most of the jobs in this country come from small businesses, with less than 500 workers? Most jobs come from people with ideas who use their own money(and little from banks) to get things going. 400 people in the U.S. own as much money as HALF of the U.S. population. Sick, and getting sicker.
0402sgrl says
I hardly use any of those household products, but I will be putting them on my weekly shopping list now. Well done.
Katrina says
I don’t use any of their products but I’ll be passing this on to make sure anyone I know doesn’t either.
Dale Prokosch says
Just saying thanks for being a strong producer for our country!
Concerned says
Jeez. How massive the Koch Industry is — no wonder they want to have a voice in state and federal policy. Perfectly explains Wis Gov Walker spending 20 min on that phone call to ‘Faux’ Koch –and why the real Koch brothers opened their lobbyist offices right next to the Capitol — and why they want to be pouring money into campaigns (to influence policy in order to increase their dominance and personal fortunes.) Perhaps not boycott the products and affect the workers, but instead try to open the eyes of everyday Republicans as to what is REALLY going on here. Unless you are a fat-cat CEO like Koch, don’t be fooled.
JJ says
So basically what this list is telling me is that the Koch brothers are responsible for creating more jobs, economic activity, and tax revenue than all the protesters combined. To the brothers I say a heartfelt ‘thank you’.
mahilena says
at a time when the Koch brothers were enjoying spectacular financial gains, Koch Industries laid off well over 2,000 people. Using the same approximate “jobs multiplier” Koch Industries used in its study last week, that means Koch Industries extinguished nearly 8,000 jobs in recent years:
– Koch’s John Zink Company subsidiary laid off 63 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
– Koch’s Georgia Pacific subsidiary laid off 118 people at its Roxboro, North Carolina plant.
– Koch laid off 50 people at its INVISTA plant in Wilmington, Delaware.
– Koch’s Georgia Pacific subsidiary laid off 158 people at a paper-making plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Most of the jobs have been replaced with automated machines.
– Koch’s INVISTA subsidiary laid off 50 people at its plant in Athens, Georgia.
– Koch laid off 150 people at its headquarters in Wichita, Kansas.
– Koch laid off 500 people at its Seaford, Delaware INVISTA plant.
– Koch laid off 400 people in its Waynesboro, Indiana INVISTA plant. As one of the primary employers in the city, the layoffs were expected to have serious ripple effects. City officials said layoffs at Invista will “force cuts across Waynesboro.” “The rest of the community, this will probably instill a bit of a wake-up call and they will cut back also,” predicted Waynesboro Vice Mayor Frank Lucente.
– Koch laid off 320 people at its Georgia Pacific plywood plant in Cleveland, Texas.
– Koch laid off 60 people at its INVISTA plant in Victoria, Texas.
– Koch laid off 169 people from its Flint Hills Resources plant in Odessa, Texas.
– Koch laid off 300 people at its Georgia Pacific plant in Monroeville, Alabama.
– Koch “indefinitely” idled its 60-worker Georgia Pacific mill in Louisville, Mississippi
Anonymous says
why is there no mention of obama being in the pocket of George Soros? Double standard!!
I will buy buy buy Koch products
Steve says
Mahilena… So you listed apx 5000 Jobs that came to an end? Labor stats show that Koch Brothers employee some 70,000 plus people… Thats kind of a small percentage of thier overall business? I worked for a small company that laid of 7 of thier employees (myself being one of them) and I was 1 of 13 people.. more then 50% of us! I think the Koch family has done fine by U.S. workers!
Marjorie says
Get off the soapbox. Do you really think you are smarter then the majority of the people in America. If you have your way, we will all be back in the dark ages. That is except for those who are scaring others to believe that corporate America is to blame for all your ills.
bud j says
come on folks, these guys own everything and give back very little. they hide all there profit so very little percentage of tax paid to our country even though they run it. wake up go ahead and buy their products if they are made HERE but make them pay their share back and help save mother earth.
Scolaighe says
Thanks for the shopping list. Actually, I don’t buy Koch products because G-P is in competition with our local paper products producer. Maybe I’ll try one of their hunting packages.
Scolaighe
Anonymous says
You forgot to mention how many jobs they created and how much revenue those jobs and products privide the Government and States.
IDoite says
Jobs…they employ 70,000? The Budget bills they are sponsoring here in WI alone are decreasing 21,325 FTE (full time employment) positions. See for yourself in Scott walkers Budget in brief Table 5. Not to mention the workers that will be laid off or take pay cuts because of the ‘reform tools’ Walker is giving localities (stripping collective bargaining).
And you are missing the point that they decreased jobs WHILE MAKING LARGE PROFITS. Which goes to show that giving tax cuts that help corporate ‘bottom lines’ goes into the pockets of CEOs not into creating jobs. If profits are down corporations fire workers instead of giving themselves pay decreases. If profits are up, they don’t hire anyone because ‘production’ is high and profitable…no need for new positions.
How about the point that Koch Ind. which operates in numerous states and countries, only employs 70,000 workers while the WI government employs more than 300,000 workers (almost 200,000 of which are receiving 8% pay cuts).
The Koch Bros. are worth $43 billion ($21.5 billion each). They pull in $100 billion annually. They laid off 8000 workers in time of growing profit…lets pay those workers $50,000 each that is $400 million. Take that from $43 billion = $42.6 billion (0.9% less than a 1% decrease [they WI bills take 8% pay cuts from 200,000 workers and this is fair to the Kochs]) and those workers could have kept their jobs. And the Koch brothers would still have $21.3 billion each. Or take $400 million for worker compensation out of $100 billion annual revenue = 0.4% decrease or $99.6 billion annually. If we took the $37.9 million invested in oil lobbying alone we could pay $50,000 to 758 workers.
Do you not understand the term billion? Do you know if you count to 1 billion without stopping it would take you 31.6 years. Which means it would take you 126 years to count the $43 billion the Koch brothers have, if you count by 10 dollar bills!
Do yourself a favor and look at the income gap charts of this country. The rich are far too rich and greedy.
What if we taxed the Koch brothers under the tax rates of the 1950’s and 60’s? (91% for the top income percentage [the most prosperous time in American history]) $43 billion by 91% = $3.913 billion or $1.45 billion each. With the money taxed we could pay 781,740 workers. What would you do for $1.45 billion dollars? What would 781,740 workers do for the unemployment rate?
Those who scream ‘if the rich aren’t rich no one could buy or sell companies or build factories etc.’ B%!! S#!%! The prices of companies and facilities would fall according to the supply and demand curve. In other words the prices are only that high because the CEOs are that rich.
How do people defend such greed. ‘its not fair to tax the rich so much’ But is it fair to let 10% of the population to own 72% of the wealth (fact, and rising)? Similarly that same top 10% own 87.8% of assets in this country. Conversely that means 90% of population only owns 12.2% of assets (homes cars facilities). Greed Greed Greed.
And what, people allow this to happen because they too might be one of the richest persons? They too are greedy?
The rich own the media and feed the public the same rhetoric and people eat it up and defend these greedy rich people without doing the math. They own everything, they have everything the income gap is worse than pre-great depression, and yet the working class republicans vote to give MORE tax cuts MORE money MORE deregulation to the greedy rich.
Trickledown economics has been running this country since the 1980’s. 30 years later, and look at the mess we are in. The best part is, that the middle class is so poor that we can’t even afford the products and services these greedy rich are providing anymore. So now the greedy rich are seeing profits decrease and recessions form because we can afford to shop at their stores or buy their properties. They are shooting themselves in the foot.
TABLE 5 [WI budget in brief(https://budget.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Read-the-states-Budget-in-Brief-summary..pdf).]: FISCAL YEAR 2012-13 FTE POSITION DECREASES
FTE
Creation of University of Wisconsin-Madison Authority
-17,418.29
Elimination of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Board
-2,609.38
Elimination of Vacant Positions
-735.12
Closure of Juvenile Facilities at the Department of Corrections
-269.00
Elimination of the Department of Commerce
-135.60
Closure of Unit at Wisconsin Resource Center
-59.25
Other FTE Position Reductions
-98.36
TOTAL
-21,325.00
IDoite says
the 781,740 jobs that could be created from taxing the Kochs a fair rate (the rate during the 50s-60s, the most prosperous time in American history) would pay those workers $50,000/yr pay workers $25,000 (like public teachers or the Average american and it would be 1,563,480 workers. And the Koch Brothers are still billionaires!
The last line of text in the previous comment should read ‘we can’t afford to shop’ instead of we can.
vote, Trickle UP economics!
IDoite says
Boycott Koch Industries!
see previous comments for proof.
Trickle Up Economics!
Rick Rork says
OK, now lets see what companies George Soros own or have invested in, While your at it do an expose’ of the counties Mr. soros has overthrown compared to the Koch Brothers. You spew all this onesided information but do half of your readers realize you are bashing the Koch Brothers solely because the support conservative causes as opposed to liberal causes. Wake up readers and do some research then think for yourself.