Koch Brothers Products — We’re Surrounded.
If you have been following news about the Koch brothers, you might be curious as to which products they manufacture.
It turns out, the Koch Brothers, with a net worth of over $40 billion each, own stakes in a ton of industries like paper and wood products, chemicals, textiles, plastics, etc.
Here are a list of companies and industries in which the Koch brothers own a stake:
- Paper Products: Angelsoft, Brawny, Dixie, Mardi Gras, Quilted Northern, Soft n Gentle, Sparkle, Vanity Fair
- Wood: Georgia-Pacific (largest plywood manufacturer in US – also owns most of the paper companies above).
- Textiles & Plastics: Polarguard, Stainmaster, Dacron, Lycra, CoolMax/SolarMax, Thermolite, and more.
- Chemicals, Coal, & Oil: Crude oil processing, Flint Hills Resources, lots of other commodities handled.
- Nitrogen: One more reason to make your own fertilizer – Koch Industries produces many synthetic fertilizers.
Those are just the best known brands – there’s many more on the list below. =(
Koch Brothers Products: Paper Products
Georgia-Pacific owns all of the brands above, and also distributes paper towels, napkins and soap dispensing systems used in commerical settings. Some GP commercial toilet paper brands: Envision, Coronet®, SCA, Tork and Fort James. GP also produces Pacific Garden liquid soaps.
Georgia-Pacific produces ink and office paper under the labels: Advantage, GP (including GP Harmon recycled papers), ImagePlus and the Spectrum® family of office paper products.
Koch Brothers Products: Wood
Georgia-Pacific is the largest manufacturer of plywood in the U.S.
Including Plytanium Plywood®, DryPly® plywood, Ply-Bead®.
Georgia-Pacific is one of the country’s largest suppliers of corrugated boxes and containers.
Various, numerous wood products, dimensional lumber and building materials: Blue Ribbon, Clutter Cutter, DensArmor Plus, DensDeck, DensGlass, DensShield® gypsum board, DryPly, Fireguard®, Grant Forest OSB Board, GP Lam, Hushboard, Nautilus, Ply-Bead, Plytanium, Southern Gold, Sta-Strait, Thermostat, ToughRock and Wood I Beam.
Koch Brothers Products: Textiles and Plastics
These are under the Koch Brothers brand Invista Products. Invista produces a large selection of products under this business, including polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymers for carbonated soft drink, water, beer, juice, food and custom container applications. Production also includes polyester intermediate feedstocks, film products, fibers, and specialty polymers for a variety of applications, inlcuding PBT-based engineering polymer.
- Stainmaster
- Dacron
- Lycra
- CoolMax
- SolarMax
- Polarguard
- Thermolite
- Antron
- Comforel fiberfill
- DBE® dibasic esters
- Tactel
- Tactesse Carpet Fibers
- Terathane
- ADI-Pure®
- Polyshield®
- Polyclear®
- Oxyclear™
- Performa®
- Cordura fabric
- Supplex® Fabric
- Somerelle® Bedding
Documentary: Koch Brothers Exposed
The full-length documentary starts with the background of the Koch brothers—their father started the empire with oil money earned in the Soviet Union. This is an updated edition of the documentary, showing the latest political contributions made by the Koch Brothers. It goes on to discuss their plans for eduction, their opposition to the minimum wage, their work to increase barriers to voting, their opposition to unions, and the environmental impact of their businesses.
Koch Brothers Products: Chemicals, Coal & Oil
Through its subsidiaries Koch operates refineries in Alaska, Minnesota and Texas, with a combined crude oil processing capacity of more than 800,000 barrels per day. Koch Industries owns or operates about 4,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas liquids and chemicals. Koch Minerals and its affiliates are among the world’s largest dry-bulk commodity handlers, marketing and trading more than 40 million tons of coal, petcoke, cement and other related products annually. Flint Hills Resources produces about 9 billion pounds of building-block chemicals per year. Koch is a leading producer of paving and roofing asphalt. Koch Oil Sands Operating LLC has leases for 1.1 million acres of Alberta oil fields. Their Pine Bend, Minn. refinery is one of the largest single buyers and refiners of Canadian heavy oil. Source: www.kochind.com
Koch Industries Produces:
- Gasoline
- Diesel
- Jet fuel
- Naphtha
- Asphalt
- Fracking Chemicals
- Benzene
- Toluene
- Metaxylene
- Paraxylene
- Orthoxylene
- Cumene
- Cycohexane
- Heavy reformate
- Pseudocumene
- Sure Sol ® 100
- Sure Sol ® 150
- Purified Isophthalic Acid
- Maleic Anhydride
- Trimellitic Anhydride
- Ethylene
- Chemical Grade Propylene
- Polypropylene
- Polyethylene
“In Flint Hills Resources manufacturing plants, various hydrocarbon products are the basic feedstocks. At the refineries, the main feedstock is crude oil. The refineries produce a wide range of transportation fuels for motorists, truckers and the airline industry. In the olefins plants, the company processes natural gas liquids into ethylene and propylene. In the polymers plants, those two products are processed into various forms of olypropylene, which are key ingredients in products such as consumer and healthcare products, packaging and other plastic products. In the aromatics plant, products produced during the crude oil refining process become xylenes, cumenes and other light products. Those products are the building blocks for many other chemicals and plastics.” Source: fhrstage.fhr.com/ehs/certifications.aspx
Koch Carbon LLC and its affiliates globally trade and transport petroleum coke, coal, cement, pulp and paper, sulfur and other related commodities through a network of bulk import/export terminals in the United States and Europe. The C. Reiss Coal Company is a leading supplier of coal and related products typically used in industrial applications or to generate electricity.
Koch Exploration Company LLC and its affiliates acquire, develop and trade petroleum and natural gas properties in the United States, Canada and Brazil.
Koch Oil Sands Operating LLC has leases for 1.1 million acres of Alberta oil fields. The Koch’s are developing a bitumen recovery project known as the Dunkirk In Situ Project which is roughly 60 km West of the Fort McKay native community. Source: The Globe & Mail.
Frac-Chem: is an oilfield chemical manufacturer & wholesale chemical supplier with an emphasis on hydraulic fracturing, stimulation and coil tubing chemistries.
Bernie Sanders Speaks About The Koch Brothers
This report from the show The Young Turks explains that the Koch Brothers are backing a new organization trying to stop the rising tide of electric vehicle adoption. This would hurt petroleum producers like the Koch Brothers. The group is likely to run ads attacking the subsidies given to electric cars.
I am happy to see that I have only purchased the Vanity napkins in my lifetime, but you can be sure I never will again.
Shame on you Tea Partiers – are you so naive that you do not see how you are being used by these Bros. in trying to eliminate all the protections that were put in place to protect all of us, you included? The Bros. only want you to help them do more destruction but at a cheaper price for them. Do you not need clean water and air to survive like all of humanity? Don’t you care about your children & their children and the future you may be giving them to inherit? You & I are lucky to be able to enjoy some beauty in our country, but if you allow people like the Bros. to eliminate all the protective agencies created for our good, then the future heirs will surely condemn & damn us for our lack of foresight & caring. All you have to do is look at the destitute poorer countries and see what the USA’s future can be if you allow people like the Koch Bros to have their way.
Do you union Republicans really think they care about you & your concerns? Wake up and smell the coffee folks. First, we had Mr. Bush & his cronies create this God awful mess during his 8 years. It’s going to take longer than a year or two to fix it and Barack Obama did not create it – he inherited it. Oh by the way, I’m a white 71 yr old female independent voter.
Have any of you tried to live without an income and pay your bills? That’s what the Republicans expect when they do not allow taxes to be collected. Us poor & middle class folks can’t carry the load alone anymore – we have given and don’t have any more to give – but you know what – we will find a way to give more just like we always do. So it’s time for the wealthy to start paying their way.
It really is a shame that there aren’t more people like Bill & Melinda Gates who share their wealth. The Koch Bros. sure have enough to give up some and do some good – but they only seem to look to find a way to destroy the good around us. I hope & pray that enough people see the evil behind these 2 men and help curb their works. If we can hurt their profit line – good for you and good for us.
I will start to buy more of there product I will not be able to buy enough to be able to stop this job killing unconstutinal dept called the EPA
I bet these guys spend millions every year lobbying to keep marijuana illegal, hemp would take out 3/4’s of the empire!
Greed will get you every time people dont you know this already!!!! Quit making yourselves so rich and worry about how your future generation will live on the earth that you are destroying!!!
If we, as Americans, don’t gain our voice I truly fear for the survival of the United States. The Kochs’ have decided that they and a few of their close friends including Gov. Perry can buy the White House, and take us back to a time when those of us of color ‘knew our place’. Their opinion is, How dare a man of color run and win the presidency! Wake up people, we need to hit the streets in force and boycott any and all products produced by the Kochs’ companies. Hatred and racism is becoming unbearable in the United States and those who continue to ‘bait the bear’ will find that people aren’t stupid and they will finally rise up and stamp these ‘midget’ men out. Congress has allowed them and others of their ilk too much power.
The Koch brothers are absolutely disgusting! They should be run out of the country. They are against the interests of the American people and should no longer be welcome here!
These big money monopolists and oligarchs are destroying our country and want to kill our democracy by buying it, and thanks to their buddies on the court they are in the position to do just that. The demise of democracy will come at the hand of the poor people who are hoodwinked by these fat b*st*rds who push their hot buttons of racism, sexism, and God. Too many of the rational, thinking folks have concluded that Obama cannot get us out of this slump, forgetting that the Reps of the Koch Bros. in Congress have had one single-minded goal – defeat Obama, block everything he wants to accomplish. We need to realize that the Reps are the cause of our failure to recover from the effects of their policies, not the solution. We need to show the T baggers what a real populist movement looks like.
Thanks for the list of Koch products to boycott but we also need help identifying the candidates the Koch Bros. are supporting and suggestions on how to work together to defeat them. We need to demonstrate that their money cannot buy our country.
we need 10% taxes from everyone income taxes that is. this will shut down the basterds
These brothers need more national exposure as to their quest for control of America under their silent dictatorship. Why is this not being discussed everyday on national TV? We must never allow our great country to fall into the hands of this kind of enemy.
I was wondering if anyone was making a stand against the crazy environmental regulators who are destroying our society. Thanks for the info so I can help support their fight for reason by buying their products. I pray folks like Al Gore, etc are forced to answer for their actions, rather than letting them get by with non-answering insults, snobbery, and evasion of evidence they want to deny and bury. We need to use American coal, shale, oil drilling, and keep working to find economical new technology that makes Saudi oil worthless.
I’m impressed with this family. I think we should support them as much as we can to defeat Soros and his incompetent puppet government.
I for one will boycott all of Koch Bros. products. These power hungry thugs have to be brought down before they destroy our wonderful country. I will pass on this information to my entire family and friends.
America should boycott all of these products
I love these guys, as long as they’re not in bed with the Dems or the Repub. I gotta say I’m jealous of them just like the rest of you. But I don’t begrudge them prosperity. For those of you who boycott, who are you going to buy from. Do your research. Don’t be a sheep. Entrepenuers are what made this country great, not entitlement programs.
We should only let Warren Buffet and Obama tell us what to do.
How could you possibly be ‘jealous’ or ‘impressed’ by these two bloated brothers whose father started them off? They have no sense of doing right by the environment. They are thieves of your grandchildren’s health and planet.
There are many a company out there producing sustainable goods and thank goodness for them! Put your money in the future not in the death of the planet.
I cannot thank you enough for letting me know of the products produced by these in-bred thugs in suits.
I am so thrilled that I use so few of the Koch Brothers’ products. The ones I did not know of, that I use, will now no longer be used.
Unlike some of your respondents, I pride myself on education and information, as opposed to the overwhelming number of ‘stuck-on-stupid as usual’ peoples that infest and disease our country.
Thank you again for the information. All kudos to you!
Thank you for an easy to read litany of these industries. A boycott to these retail products and expose of their dealing needs to be front and center.
I see the Alinskysocialliberalcrats have a new toy to break .
There is Capitalism then there is Predatory Capitalism. These guys practice the latter! Do we allow corporations to exist to serve the Country or does the Country exist only to serve the corporations?
Thank you for creating this website. I found it during a Google search.
I’m replacing some decking and I want to make sure that the product that I buy is NOT affiliated with the Koch brothers.
I’ll pass this website on to others. Thanks again!
Reading this list makes it more clear why the Koch’s oppose clean environmental progress. I am still amazed at the number of people who buy the Koch’s self-serving line that clean environmental legislation is bad for the country. People, ever hear of ‘Penny-wise and pound foolish?’ If you are manipulated to believe their nonsense, you are just giving into their greed at the expense – and I mean that literally – of your children’s and grandchildren’s future. The hole in the ozone is bigger than ever, large ice shelves have melted allowing frigid air to dip far south in the US giving us horrible winters and horrible summers. Food crops are already affected negatively around the world. The Koch’s have the money to change this but they obviously are too greedy. And small-minded people vote for the Koch’s slate because they just buy the party line.
Hello,
You have published good information on Koch products. I also see you are green friendly. Nice going. Can you suggest acceptable alternatives for individual Koch products to BUYcott. I have a blog post on the boycott/BUYcott. I believe people want to know where to spend their money while they are boycotting a business. See https://rewardandconsent.blogspot.com/2011/10/buycott-good-corporations-while.html
Now that I know what products you have I will never buy, my family and friends have no need for your services. I will continue to not buy your products until you give back to people in need. All the money you give to republicans support you could help so many in need. Shame on you….
I’m ashamed that I unknowingly bought these products before. I will not buy them again.
Koch Industries is the modern day miafa of us business. They are buying and paying off politicians to be their spokespeople. Shame on us US Citizens to allow this to happen.
Boycott Koch. Hit them where it hurts.. . and to those idiots working for them. Get out and stop being brainwashed.
Soros has bought a president, bought most of the news media, bought NPR, bought and sold countries, is trying to buy the USA. Soros is supporting this web site, and the flawed research in an attempt to destroy the Kock brothers. Yes, you have the choice in purchasing, however, with Soros, you have no choices. You should spend your time reading, learning, and understanding his plans for you, for your family, and for your country. Stop being sheep to the next, and the next, and the next liberal target. Liberals target and destroy any obstacle in their path. You are the sheep they enlist to do their dirty work.
I am grateful that the Koch Brothers understand the world we live in & help the cause to stop the spread of socialism here in the USA. The EPA is so powerful that it prevents much more than it helps. The PC crowd is so indoctrinated with what they believe to be compassion that they can’t ever understand our need to have the Koch Brothers take their stand. I, for one, applaud them.
Dear Bruiser, I do not know where your fears come from and cannot understand them. I can assure you though that nobody has contributed a dime to this website. I am afraid your Soros fears might be a bit exaggerated. Dear Irene, I do feel the Koch Brothers have an ‘understanding’ of how to ‘make money’ by plundering our natural resources. I am not saying the EPA is perfect, but if that arm did not monitor, certainly many corporations concerned more for profit than long term health, would poison us and this beautiful finite planet just to line their pockets. Of course there are some good characters out there, but there are selfish/ignorant ones as well.
First, Grandma Anne I agree with your whole post. The Koch bothers are destroyers. They don’t care about the country the live in and they aren’t doing anything to help the country they live in. Maybe if they put their BILLIONS into AMERICA they might do some good. Of course, why would they think about doing that when all they CARE ABOUT is themselves. They don’t care about the average american. Sadly there is no way to stop the Koch brothers since anyone who speaks up against them won’t be heard. To anyone that SUPPORTS the destroyers I hope that one day you will see just how used you are being. I won’t hold my breath though…
My wife just found out that the toilet paper we buy was from Koch enterprises and she asked to to look up other products that we can start of avoid purchasing. thanks for the informative web site.
Lets see Soros and all of his Liberal, Socialist, Maxist crap, ensuring that we become Iran, Russia, Communist or Koch Brothers. Both bad, but at this point in our country the American people are left with the lest of 2 evils. Obama or Cain I vote Cain with out a second of hesitation. Why not list Soros history. Oh yeah, Liberal Media, only one side yours.
I have friends that work for EPA and am glad to report they take their job very seriously and live lives that support saving out Planet.
Koch brothers bought out the ‘Tea Party’ which almost brought this country to the brink of total disaster with their debt ceiling…
NO MORE Koch Brothers products for this family.
Thank you for your web site.
Thank you for creating all the jobs you do for the United States of America. Global warning is a lie. I hope some people learn to read and inform themself. Knowledge is power. Keep up the good work Guys. God Bless you and God Bless the USA
I have used many of these products for far too long. I will not be purchasing anything from these dirtbags any longer.
Thanks so much for identifying the products we all need to buy to support our values. Freedom and prosperity. Thanks Koch brothers!
Can we start calling them Pentex now?
I find it hilarious that all the pro-KochBros commenters can’t even be arsed to use proper punctuation and grammar–thus making themselves look like (let’s be honest here) dimwitted, lazy buffoons with a collective IQ just below that of a La-Z-Boy.
And don’t get me started on folks like ‘Sandi’, who apparently doesn’t know what ‘Socialism’ actually is–Sandi dear, I do hope you don’t go on Social Security or Medicare when you retire. After all, those are Socialist-style programs. Perhaps it would do you good to pick up a dictionary?
The idiocracy is upon us, and folks like Sandi, Randy kendrick(sic), and Thinker are only serving as proof of what happens when a nation decides education is no longer important.
wow!
Thanks for identifying the products.
Maybe Sandi and the Thinker are also billionares so that is why they think like they do. That is the only explanation.
If they are ordinary middle class people it is beyond me that they would want people like the Koch brothers to have so much control. I want to have my vote count. It doesn’t with the Koch brothers buying congressmen and elections. Once again the wealthy get listened to and the rest of us don’t have a choice.
Should we buy these products so the Koch Brothers acquire more wealth? I think not.
Koch Industries illustrates why we need separation of corporate-industrial power from state and national government. I say, get Koch Bros. out of politics.
How about we start an ‘Occupy Koch Brothers Products’ movement? Lets teach these assholes a lesson they wont forget!!!!
Everyone supports the Koch Bros. in one way or another. You people should cringe in everything you do because you are probably using one of the products they manufactured or had something to do with every single day.
WOW ! OMG ! Not 2 tech savy.Just decided to google who these ppl r.Keep hearing their name invovled n politics. I watch/read news daily n believe something has to be done in america from wall st. 2 main st. These guys r scary n who knows how many more r out there ! love the list of products. Ashamed i buy so many n MUST stop. I’m ready 2 join the 99%— 48yr old white divorced middle class ( I hope ) if 50k in suburban cleveland counts,public union city school worker,single dad,tax payer,registered voter.GOD help us.What can we do to change the direction of our nation?
Thanks for the list of products I will make sure to buy. Northern Toilet Paper will be the only thing I ever put on butt from now on.
Did I miss the section where it mentioned how many Americans are employed by the Koch Brothers and their various operations/enterprises??? Yes, let’s all boycott anything made from any products derived from the Koch Brothers – starting with laptops and computers and energy. Looks like the ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ people are leading the way, boycotting hygene products. Can we say ‘Shallow-minded Hypocrites’??? And to think, some of these brainiacs even vote! Good grief…
I will never understand how normal American working class people can be so supportive of the agenda of billionaires who stack the deck against them. They are the proverbial fox guarding the hen house.
Please understand, Fox news and Rush Limbaugh do not count as research. Stop the flow for a bit. Give it a week so the rhetoric can stop ringing in your ears. You will soon understand that you are not on the Koch Christmas list.
I’ve read The Bilderberg Group, Fixing America and many other related books and I never heard of Koch. Thanks for the information. I am also going to boycott these products. People may be waking up, finally!