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.
Thanks for the list. Funny story, I just stopped using angle soft anyway. 11 useless rolls of sandpaper set on the shelf.
Thanks very much for compiling the list. Now we have to act on it. We have to break these bastards.
I have to say this as plainly as I can: The Koch Brothers are the lowest kind of criminal slime, as immoral a pair as you’re going to find. They would have thrived in Nazi Germany. Their agenda is nothing less than the destruction of our civil society. They want a society that is completely controlled by corporations: yes, that is, in fact, a variation on fascism.
lets all boycott these products and help stop these extreme right, enemy’s of the middle class, and poor people of our and I mean OUR country.
First, this is a great list of Koch’s products and spheres of influence. Thank you for the start, whomever you are. Emotional responses aside, it used to be possible to effectively economically boycott the goods and services of a specific business enterprise. However, in today’s economic environment, it ain’t so easy. Koch’s products are everywhere in our everyday lives; in easy to recognize, toilet paper form and in nearly impossible to detect, roof sub-decking plywood form. And, the fact that we can’t even find out whether these guys supply the house brand paper products for Wal-Mart, Costco, Sam’s Club, et al. makes concerted action that much more difficult to achieve the desired results. Seriously, how do we change our purchasing habits in such a way as to actually get these guys’ attention? In addition to their economic clout, how do we weaken their political power? Is it feasible to not vote for any candidate who takes contributions from the Kochs or is that too hard to find out?
Criminals and murderers, like the Koch brothers, do not deserve the tax breaks and subsidies they receive from the government. They also so not deserve the hard earned consumer dollars we spend on their products. This article was great. I plan to find an alternative to every product on the above list. I refuse to help these amoral, greedy SOB’s to fund any more corrupt politicians.
You people scare me. The Koch brothers have always been champions of liberty and completely open about it. This ridiculous smear campaign about ‘shadowy-evil-rightwing-billionaires-trying-to-take-over-the-world’ is laughable. The ‘right-wing’ organizations they support like the CATO institute are devoted to causes like ending the PATRIOT act, stopping corporate bailouts, ending the drug war. Or the Institute for Justice: a ‘right-wing’ law firm devoted to things like fighting eminent domain takeover (pro-bono) of people’s homes by corporate assholes like Donald Trump. They’re libertarians for chrissakes! Here are some other examples of their ‘abominable’ charitable donations:
over $100m to support ballet and theater
over $150m to support cancer research
$7m to PBS (yeah, real ‘right-wing’)
Oh yeah, and $40k to Scott Walker
Yeah, go look it all up.
Thanks for the list though, I’m going to buy as much of these as possible.
Would bet that the below post of ‘Simon Hilarides’ was done by a Koch marketing team…
These guys are business men and they are fighting for our freedoms unlike most of the Fascists companies GE, Newcorp, etc..etc.. running our government putting us and all our children in debt and taking away our freedoms. They make money and put it back into economic growth to keep the country growing unlike the war mongering CIA invested carlyle group who donates heavily to NPR we don’t want to talk about them. Sure you losers who are looking for a job go ahead and boycott a company who stays in the US providing jobs, making products in the US, These are great people who are defending our nation and the constitution it is built upon.
haha i knew someone would accuse me of working for the Koch marketing team! i just had to come back and check. you can check me out on the internet, though i’m pretty unimportant. i actually work on a farm in Maine, i have a degree in philosophy from Reed College and i used to play in a goofy punk band in highschool ‘the ordinary kids’.
go ahead, you can look me up too!! and boycott me if you want!!
oh, here’s another cool Koch brothers donation:
last year $20m to the ACLU to fight the PATRIOT act
on top of all of these donations, you guys fail to notice that many of the products they produce are made from trees! when those trees are made into products like plywood and used to build homes and such, they act as a carbon sink!!! this is not included in their ‘peri’ toxic score, but it should be (i guess maybe it would be difficult to calculate?) especially given that over 42% of their score is based on Georgia Pacific.
I’m itching to keep going but my wife is telling me I have to go to sleep…! Cheers!
I don’t use these products much – but I’ll be certain to try and never use them again.
It is interesting to see how some forms of rape are overlooked in the United States. If you have enough money, then you can get anyone to look the other way.
With all that great Koch science going on, I hope they achieve two things: 1. A time machine to send all you left wings back to the stone age so you can’t cry about intelligence and technology. 2. A gas or compound that seeks out left wing psychosis and the causing gene and eliminates it.
I refuse to buy anything from these blood suckers.
The Koch Family got its start building power plants and infrastructure for Joseph Stalin. Funny how they now claim they are capitalists when that family has dedicated its existence to destroying progress and mankind.
The Koch Brothers are enemies of the people and need to be treated as such.
Take direct action; read my review of Angel Soft Bathroom Tissue: https://bit.ly/hD0Z8J
We should unionize Koch employee’s world wide and collective bargain with them.
They have their greedy fingers into just about everything. They have a destructive impact on the environment with their enormous political control. If enough of us flex our economic muscle by not purchasing their products, maybe we can defeat them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/160064/koch-industries-2010-election-packet
I’ve been saying this over and over again. We need to buy local products. I shop at Meijer, a store that is based in Grand Rapids, MI, for my paper towels and t.p., etc. I buy the store brand, but who knows where that comes from. I try. I buy mostly fresh, local produce when I can, local milk and eggs. Bob’s Red Mill flours and grains, and I shop at thrift stores for most of my shoes and clothes. Even then, I have a hard time buying anything nowadays that is made in China. I am trying to be a conscientious consumer, but I’m not a saint. I wish more of my friends would join me though.
These brothers should be listed as terrorists-intent on the destruction of the planet in order to increase their profits. Libertarians want the liberty to destroy others? And the planet on which they live? And to get away with breaking a myriad of federal laws? Oh, I forgot. Laws should not have been made which restrict their freedom to self-profit!
PIIGS!!!
we need to stop buying their products and let them leave the US. If it was that simple. They are criminals with money and thats that . fines don’t do a thing to punish or prevent further violations to our land and people. They should be jailed along with the Bush Gang.
Without people like the Koch brothers, you’ll walk or take a horse. No soap to wash or paper to wipe. Sickness moves in, but you won’t have medicine to combat it. You won’t have amber waves of grain. There goes the horse. You’ll have a bacteria laden rag to wipe up small messes, and no way to clean water and air. No army, navy, air force, police, personal protection, and you’ll cook your food over wood. A party of carcinogens. You’ll mostly go naked. You’ll smell like a sewer, especially without the deoderants, perfumes and feminine napkins, along with the regular napkins. No lighting. Reduced to the even more licentious Dark Ages, but perhaps with much less sex.
thanks!
Our Family will stop purchasing any GP products today and get the word out-we the little guys fuel (sweat off our brow) these barons. Funny as lots of stuff on the list is in our cabinet right now-shame on us-thanks for the word-
There isn’t anything wrong with Koch making products and selling them for profit – but they shouldn’t harm the environment in the process and use those profits to influene our elections! They are trying to buy our democracy right out from under us!
We would survive because someone else could make those same products without illegally dumping poisons in our waters and destroying our air – all the while spending millions to influence our elections and destroy the EPA that holds them accountable! They are not a ‘God’ that we must depend on as S. Koch seems to imply.
Lawrence says ‘To tax them more is just giving more money to other greedy rich people’ but he is wrong…to tax them more is to make them acknowledge that the Billions they earn are a result of the work of their people and a direct result of the benefits of living in this great country…taxing them more would offset the great damage they do to our environment and our health and help fund programs that hold them accountible… i.e. protect the environment and people’s health. Everyone knows there is waste in government – but I am thankful for the programs that protect our sick, provide for our elderly and disabled, make sure our water is safe to drink, our food is safe to eat, our infrastructure is sound, protects our safety, provides eduction, laws, courts, firefighters, police and the many other unnamed and unappreciated tax-payer funded government BENEFITS. I think it is patriotic to pay taxes. It’s also patriotic to point out waste or bad policies – that is a democracy. People like the Koch brothers think our democracy is for sale to the highest bidder! Our founding fathers knew and spoke of the dangers of too much wealth in the hand of the few – they recognized this as the greatest threat to our democracy and we should too!
The crime lies in your filthy inhuman politicians who are willing to sell you and God’s earth out. Anyone who is involved in as much as the Koch brothers is bound to pollute, but perhaps the benefits outweigh the tribulations. We damn near killed all the indians too, but that arose out of politics. We’re starving for energy because of politics, and that makes all things increase. If we want to destroy someone for crimes or mistakes then there would probably be no one here. As long as your faux leaders are permitted to commit treason on levels of humanity, ecology and nationally, and not support punishments for bribery (lobbying), you’ll have this destructive corruption. Imprison the politicians and you’ll see people like the Koch brothers, if accusations are true, fall in line. Leaders should always be held accountable on a much higher standard.
To the best of my ability, I will not buy products where Koch Bros Industries has a vested interest. This means no more clothes with lycra and no more Dixie products. I have not bought Georgia Pacific products for some time. I wish I knew in which gasoline products Koch Bros is invested. I am thoroughly disgusted by their pumping money into things that hurt working Americans. My mother became a union organizer in her late 40s, early 50s when she had to go to work following my father’s death. She recognized unfair treatment when she saw it and I fear we are returning to those days.
The one thing people are not getting about the super rich is…deductions.
The average rich person pays less than half the stated tax that I’ve read about on posts here. Take the criminal Gov. of Florida Tricky Dick Scott. In 08 or 09 he made $16 Million yet after deductions he only paid 16% tax. It all comes down to deductions. You can charge the super rich 91% tax rate but if after deductions they only pay 16% tax then whats the use?
The Koch bro’s are the lowest life form on the planet. Anyone that would destroy the environment for a buck should be put down like a rabid animal…It’s as simple as that.
I don’t care about their wealth, I care about their destruction of the environment. It’s sad that Americans allow this to happen day in and day out. Band together folks, there is more of us than there is of them…even with their bought and paid for mercenary army.
What sort of parents did you have? Would they be proud of you now?
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned some of the more insidious things David H. and Charles de Ganahl Koch have done.
They, especially through media buys and organizing via Americans for Prosperity and the Tea Party and various other front groups, and directly from their own political contributions, are winning a war on working people.
They don’t want the poor or working class to vote. That’s what’s behind their ‘voter I.D.’ laws, for instance. The Kochs are basically anti-Democratic, and they’ve been enabled by the Five Stooges on the Supreme Court. They are particularly close to Scalia and Thomas.
Pro-privatization, they are determined to destroy public employee unions in particular because in their delusions they believe they can save on the little taxes they pay by wrecking public schools, replacing correctional officers with fast-food worker ‘guards,’ etc. They don’t want to compete against even modest union funding of candidates, so they get ‘paycheck deception,’ bars to collective bargaining, pension raiding and similar legislation passed.
They are major supporters of the American Legislation Exchange Council which produces floods of draconian criminal justice and anti-regulation legislation. ALEC (with the Corrections Corporation of America and Nativists like racist-for-hire Kris Kobach) were at the core of SB 1070 in Arizona, the ‘Breathing while Brown,’ ‘Show me your papers,’ law.
By supporting and electing the radical right wingers who have only the faintest of libertarian ideals, but who are unswervingly opposed to fair taxes, they are supporting the womb police, the medical marijuana police, the homophobic and theocratic loons who have been elected in increasing numbers.
Although they are nominally libertarians, they support the private prison industry which lobbies for the drug war and other wars on minorities to fill their gulags. They support public relations outfits mislabeled as ‘think tanks’ and ‘research’ organizations, including in universities and colleges.
David has been a major supporter of cancer research (he has it) and evolution science, but he doesn’t want poor people to get health care supported in part by the state, and he has installed anti-evolutionists on school boards because part of their agenda is to defund public school through vouchers for the wealthy and charter schools for the middle class.
I read somewhere that none of those new congressional representatives elected last year believes in global warming. A great many believe in ‘The Rapture’ or that they’ll go to ‘heaven,’ but they don’t believe in evolution.
Last year they bought and paid for a score of governors. Everyone knows about Scott Walker, some posters here know about Rick Scott, but we should all be familiar with other newer Koch gubernatorial subsidiaries such as John Kasich (OH), Sean Parnell (AK), Paul LePage (ME), Tom Corbett (PA) and Rick Snyder (MI), who joined earlier Koch hacks such as Jan Brewer (AZ), Piyush Jindal (LA), Mitch Daniels and Butch Otter (ID).
They also hire public relations stooges to post on sites such as this one, trolls-for-hire, to defend their odious reputation.
Tell me why do the Koch Brothers want to change the political system here in America? They have amassed a fortune under this political system. They have also been granted free reign to pollute our planet. Their father spent time working in Russia and came back here anti-communist. Their father’s anti-anti sentiment is being blown out of proportion by his two sons. There is no threat of communism in this country.
Contrary to Conservative belief, the US Constitution does not state an economic system or preference. It simply states responsibilities of various branches of government, and in ammendments assures rights of individuals. Now where does it pick a religion nor does it claim capitalism as it’s ecomonic system. It does state that it will ensure an army for protection, and seek to promote the ‘General Welfare’ of the people. So, the founding fathers were smart as they tried to put control of what happens in the hands of the people. Unfortunately, the basis of power has swung to the Golden Rule, Those With the Gold, Rule. Those that follow them are their dogs.
Products to boycott
Wow! They own all those companies? They must be providing quite a few jobs. Good for them for helping keep the economy going.
The richest 0.0001% leveraging their wealth to buy grossly disproportionate amounts political influence is not only done completely in the open but now approved of by the peasant-class now. It’s a sad day, their brainwashing is now complete.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/billionaires-role-in-hiring-decisions-at-florida-state-university-raises/1168680
Thank you for having this and letting people know abouth this. I will no longer purchase any of these products and will scream from the mountain side to everyone I know to do the same. We made them billioniers and we the simple people can take it away.
I love these guys. They may save our country.
The Koch brothers are heroes. I personally will buy more of these products. Life is a great competition. Those who ‘spread the wealth’ are the losers of the game. They simply want to justify stealing what they were too lazy to earn.
Paul-Go get the prize. Whoever has the most toys at the end wins.
success economically, for sure.
Success at the expense of our precisious irreplacable ecology (in so many ways)
Success in political corruption and tax cheating.
Success in getting a record number of people to hate them because of their appalling behaviour. What a disgrace.
There is more to life than money, even in America. If you don’t believe that, then you’ve been corrupted. Get help.
Boycott ? At the very least. The owe big time.
I still say the real, inhuman crimes are with your politicians, and they are from our citizenry. That is an undeniable indication of where America’s morals lie. When a politician does not do the will of the people, the people should not have to wait for the next election. A referendum should be taken, and depending on that outcome, it would be determined whether the person should be bodily ripped from his office, imprisoned, or executed in a public square while it is televised and narrated as to why. This system would only require it being done about 3 times at the most until the scumbags realize that it is a reality. This would be a deterrent then to the fecal matter of the world trying for office. There would be no buying of politicians and everything would fall in line. Clean ways of doing things would be found. Vote me in and all things would be done by referendum, but be cautious, very cautious. If I detect an overwhelming immorality, I will defeat it and have my army ready to cancel you out.
I find it funny that people still think boycotting their products actually dents their wallets. This is America, we are a capitalist society where those who have more money have more freedom. Our politicians are actively trying to further separate the class difference by tricking the poor and/or ignorant masses (read: tea party movement) to believe that the conservatives are protecting their ‘freedoms’ when they vote to cut soc. Security, education, medicare, and any other SOCIAL service we have. It’s an instilled ‘got mine, f*** you’ attitude. An attitude that the majority of this selfish country believes where if you know someone (like yourself or the other 95% of the country that makes less than a fortune a year) can’t afford health care, the ‘patriotic’ thing to do is to tell them they should have tried harder and ‘nought wipth mhai tacksxz dollires’ them til they die from whatever illed them before getting patrioted.
Open your eyes, we’re in a recession, yet prices keep rising, wages continue to stagnate. Unemployment is high, and corporations are seeing record profits. Our capitalist nation has failed, we.are no longer free we are slaves to the corporations with dollar-bill-ball-and-chain around us and our leaders. The only key to our shackles is moving away from this terrible attitude and holding corporations responsible for every crime they commit and that the american people have the freedom to be an individual but have the means to success only by working their fellow american.
Obviously the greed of the Koch Brothers has no limits. They don’t care how much harm their industries’ practices do to the environment we have to live in. They don’t give a damn as long as their money keeps flowing in fo they can influence legislation and the media with their lies.
A boycott of their products is almost impossible because they own so much. But if they were prosecuted for the many gross illegalities they commit each and every day, something might bring them to stop that conduct. Are their any moral and courageous entities that could take on such a task and see that they’re accountable for the damage they are doing? I wonder.
May God give them heart attacks!
They look like clowns from a circus to me!
The U.S. economic system is free market capitalism nitwits. Will you people please get out of my country.
I have quit buying the GP products listed. I still use paper products, though not as many, but I never ever buy the GP products. I keep searching this list, so I can opt out of things owned by Koch Brothers.
Why is it never OK for a rich conservative business man/woman to support conservative causes and organizations, when it is apparently fine for liberals billionaires to support their own views by dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into far left extremist positions?
Point in case: Mr. George Sorros. A self avowed communist and dictator builder. He has given almost all the funds to Greenpeace, the Global Warming (now change) groups, not to mention groups intent on over throwing the US Government.
I would challenge the writer of this article to put just a tad of info about both sides into the articles.
I believe history will show the Koch family to be patriots and honorable men and women. I also believe history will show that the lowest point of this nation has been the past 4 years.
As for the poster who mentioned that the Constitution does not dictate the financial form of government of this nation, it DOES NOT ‘give’ the governmennt powers, it limits the powers and authority of the central government. Read the Constitution for yourself. My guess is that less than 200,000 Americans have taken the time to actually read the Constitution and many fewer the Federalist Papers.