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.
While it remains true that you have money you are obviously weak, timid, timorous, acromonious, insecure weak-willed men! Shame on you to plot such devious, malevolent acts against human dignity! Are you thaht fearful and racist. Be cautious as the wrath of God is against you!
Just parked across from the David H. Koch auditorium in NYC. Hoped it might be another David H. Koch. Not to be. What should I don with my Met. Tickets? Occupy the Met. anyone?
I didn’t think that there was that much money in the world. Has all of this money changed you guys or are you 2 still unchanged from all of your riches?
SINCE TISSUE PAPER IS A PRODUCT I KNOW A LOT ABOUT, THE QUILTED NORTHERN 3 PLY BATH ROOM TISSUE IS THE ‘ BEST ‘ BATHROOM GeraTISSUE PRODUCT ON THE MARKET. YOU CAN BUY CHEAPER TISSUE PAPER BUT NOT SOFTER, STRONGER TISSUE PAPER. HALEUJIAH
Thanks for the heads up on which companies the Koch Brothers own! I will be sure to support Koch brands as often as I can!!! Keep up the good work!
I believe I saw a report that stated they hold more environmental and safety awards than any other American company. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story, right? Koch Industries and its subsidiaries received 289 stewardship awards over the two years ending January 2011. Their headquarters is the only office building in Kansas to be Energy Star certified. In 2005, Koch’s Flint Hills Resources refinery was recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Awards program for reducing air emissions by 50 percent while expanding operations.
Is this a website dedicated to truths about the environment or just a political attack on the conservative Koch brothers disguised as a tree hugging outfit?
The Employees of the Koch Knight Facilities are liars, thieves,stalkers, uneducated low lifes who think that they are entightled to telling everyone how to live their lives.
I worked for Koch Knight for ten months as a temporary employee, I don’t see why anyone would want to work for them full time to be honest.
While working at KKI in East Canton, Ohio everything was going fine until I was moved to another location within the plant. Within a few days the black employees began harassing me saying that I was dumb, you done, etc. All of which started after they discovered what my online screen name was and began telling me that I could not do what I did on my offtime, that I did not have any faith in what I was supposed to believe in based on their company mandates of what religions and beliefs people are to believe in. My temporary position was terminated after a very nasty female put her hands on me which I took as sexually suggestive. People do not place their hands on your chest if they are greeting you they shake your hand. As A result I filed a complaint with the Koch Knight Supervisor and the temporary agency. As a result I was fired. If I had been her and done the same thing to her hell would have hit the fan and I would have been charged with some type of sexual assault. The employees of Koch Knight in Canton, Ohio are simply drunken degenerates and have the job that they do because know one else wants to work for Koch Knight. Why is that? Because Koch Knight is part of the far right wing nut bags in America who think that they have the right to tell a person who to live their lives away from work and that if what the person does at home might affect Koch Knight then the person is encouraged to not engage in what the person does but to only do what the other employees want her or him to do to brain wash them to be like they are drunken degenerates who have nothing better to do than stalk and harass people because they think that since they work at Koch Knight full time and make more money than a temporary employee then that makes them automatically more intelligent and knowledgeable than the temporary employee.
The Koch Brothers and their employees are sht.
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IF the Koch brothers get their way all states will end up like wisconsin. They want to do away with unions, the minimum wage, and stop the funding of SS so they don’t have to pay their share. We are nothing but workers to serve them. If the Gop takes over the working person we suffer. weather your union or not . Unions help pay all healthcare by paying higher premiums. Everyone needs healthcare insurance because if you become ill hospitals still treat you and the insured pick up the tab one way or they other. If u thing Obama is the problem look again. They want to make him look bad as is serves their agenda. They want to get rid of the EPA. Before the EPA was around guyhana river once was on fire in Cleveland. Lets not let them take over with their puppets. Look at Russia today and you will see that here soon.
China just said they like the GOP as they want to just make money and don’t care about human rights.
Thanks for the list! It will make it easier to buy products made by this family of American patriots.
In this day and age when countless companies are folding one after another, Koch industries continues to flourish and keep tens of thousands of people employed. Maybe you should focus your resentments towards those that are taking advantage of the average worker, like Wall Street and the corrupt banking system in this country. Koch supplies you with the basic needs that every american uses daily, toilet paper and gasoline. So quit whining and use the list above to buy products and support this great American Company.
Three cheers for the free market ! Let Freedom Ring – those working for Koch Industries are secure in the knowledge if they do their job they are in a secure enviroment. Great list of products – Made in America is a plus !
Amazing work by Inspiration Green. Keep up your excellent work. Signed : a fellow tree Hugger from the Evergreen State,
Thank you for this list, now I know which products to avoid like the plague.
Way to go Koch Brothers. I am glad that there are some US Companies with the gumption to stand up against this American destroying and Constitution trashing Administration that we have in Washington DC at the present time. You Go Koch!
Donations to universities should come with no strings attached. People running for political office should state their ideas on national TV, with a limited $ fund, paid for by the taxpayer (we’re going to pay one way or another). As far as all the paper products of the ‘brothers’….to clean up all the ‘mess’…???
To be successful, only two addictive products are necessary. One causes the disease, the other cures it.
Sign the MoveOn.org petition to boycott Koch products. The grass roots way to fight back against the Citizen’s United decision.
https://signon.org/sign/boycott-koch-products?source=c.fwd.in&r_by=1640790
Interesting facts, until I see you credit wikipedia for some of them. You lose all credibility by crediting a source that can be contributed to by any moron at any time. May I suggest that you credit reliable sources only?
Really did not know who the koch Brothers were. Now I know I will try to buy all their products. I am glad we have people like this in America that can do so much good and employ so many. Thanks
All I hear is how bad the Koch Brothers are and about their money. WOW, what happened to the USA I grew up in? When success was a good thing and most people wanted and tried to be Successful. I’m proud to be from the same country as the Koch Brother and will only buy their products from now on. GOD BLESS the Koch Brothers!
The Koch brothers are no more than cockroaches. I have made a list of their products and will never buy again. You think they are after the interest of anyone but themselves you really are crazy !
Did my research this morning and I’ll be carrying my list of Koch products to boycott going forward.
Great job. Thank you!
I will make sure I will never buy any of their products again .
Amazing how many people these sons of Satan own. Politicians, universities, even some of the posters. These nuts are not content until they own and control everything they see. Dangerous for our nation. Boycott their stuff. All they understand is money.
i have found out that the Koch brothers own Proctor and Gamble and now I know why the scented products are highly toxic. How can these guys get away with hiding toxic chemicals under the word fragrance. I do not have a life because of toxic fragrance and would like to take them to court and many other american’s who have MCS would like to sue them also because we do not have our 1st amendment rights because of these toxic fumes and my english bulldogs are having respiratory problems because of the scented laundry softener coming out of the dryer exhaust polluting our backyard and it is mostly Downy.
The real atrocity is the subversion of American Politics. The power of the Diabolical Corporation has been magnified by Citizens United leaving the average American little strangth or say in our political system.
Boycotting and Divesting are the only way to fight their current destruction of our ground water from HydroFracking
Write to BOYCOTTDBAD@GMAIL.COM and learn more about how we Americans can fight the subversion of our way of life
It is pretty naive to think that the left wing will put out factual based info on somebody that is challenging their Messiah. These brothers have interests in many products true. How many jobs are related to these products? How about their cancer research? It is stupid for liberals to think that men and companies will venture their money and expect no returns. This is what makes the U.S. different from the european countries who have been around hundreds of years longer than we have and are so far behind this young nation.I wish the liberals would start using their brains and get off of the Liberal band box and think about what they say in their responses and read past the headlines before forming opinions. This nation is not like Europe. We are spread out and cannot ride our bicycles everywhere we go. Nixing this pipeline that the Koch Brothers probably support and will undoubtably profit to some extent off of, will cost the Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs and cause the gas prices to rise sharply. When you pay 6-7 dollars a gallon for gas how much buying power will you have on our yearly income then? I guess the response from the liberals will be, I won’t work because it won’t be worth it I will just let the Government support me. This is what is wrong with America now. Thank You Mr. Obama and your socialistic rhetoric and views. The comments against the Koch Brothers is sickening. Yes they will make money. This is what people with money do, but they also fuel Americas engine by producing jobs. How many of the people which their negative responses that use to have toys and a better way of life have much less now? Take a good look at Socialism folks before you buy into it. The big boys with money will always make money. Maybe not in America where Americans will make it for them but possibly China India or other countries labor forces and we will only have these narrow minded liberal way of thinking to blame for it. We are the richest oil nation in the world but we pay hundreds of dollars a barrel for oil from our enemies instead of drilling outs own. We could be a rich NATION with a better standard of life if we used Common Sense and quit letting Stupid Liberals dictate to us. Ever think about Liberal Hollywood? Do you think they suffer when gas spikes at 8 dollars a gallon or Tires are 2000 a set or anything plastic or rubber goes sky high in price? Not on your life. These morons make hundreds of millions or billions on entertaining us. Koch brothers and companies like them make PRODUCTS that makes our lives easier and heightens our standard of living. Hard to live without what the Koch brothers make but entertainment we can live without.
How can liberals be so stupid. Why don’t you boycott all big business products? Yes go back to the 1700s where you make your own products. The Koch brothers are not unique. All big business produces multiple products we use everyday. Research G.E. They didn’t pay taxes last year as a reward for their Obama support. Why don’t the liberal fools comment on them. Oh yeah how about Obamas buddy Soros. Huge in Brazilian oil investments. The Keystone pipeline was vetoed by Obama,why and who benefits? We lose Soros will benefit when we buy Brazilian oil. I would much rather see us buy Oil from Canada our neighbor , rather than OPEC or Brazil.
Identify any issue and you will find two opposing sides. Before you post or speak about an issue, take the time to find out what is really happening. Rise above the plethera of opinions out there and state some irrefutable facts.
Thank you, thank you, thank you – Koch Brothers – for all of these wonderful products !!!!!!!
I have observed that we are in quite the environmental/political war with this outfit. I will be encouraging boycotting their products as widely as possible.
HIT THEM INTHEIRPOCKETS. BOYCOUT ALL OF THEIR PRODUCTS.
I find many of the comments below to be ludicrous! People in general are ignorant, but middle-class Republicans are beyond reproach: they are ridiculously uninformed, uneducated, unthinking morons.
As an educated man, I find the comments below in favor of the Koch Bros. to be so F-ing ludicrous. The problem with America is the gullible, ignorant Americans who are so easily manipulated and scammed! People are stupid, period! The Koch bros are trying to systematically destroy the great middle class and society that has separated us from the rest of the world. They are evil beyond belief! If you, dumb, ignorant, middle-class idiots side with them, then you are too stupid to live. Ignorance and propaganda pervade our ridiculous society. I don’t know what I hate more: ignorance or stupidity! It really doesn’t matter as the stupid comments of the individuals below reflect both!
The Koch Brothers are destroying the country that I love, and therefore I boycott all of their products as much as I can!
Get a God Damned, freaking college education morons! You people are worthless, ignorant, uninformed, uneducated, fecal matter. Despicable and disgusting excuses for humanity!! Trash; all of you!
F the Koch Brothers!
Koch Brothers send milliond to Scott Walker. You sell toilet paper your no great or big Capitalist defending Democracy. When is enough, enough you hate the working people of this country and are probably afraid to be in crowds thinking someone wants to slash your throat Greed is evil you can’t take it with you and you are using you money and power just like the KGB.
I never willingly support a company that tries to buy my government. It’s not an easy task these days due to how widespread the corruption is, how much of the market these crooks already own, and how hard they and the corrupt government work to keep it quiet.
If you do support these companies, you are essentially selling your freedom. If you want to be a corporate slave so be it; the problem I have is that you’re also jeopardizing the freedom of everyone else.
Don’t be a Dem or Repub party whore, use your brain and elect thoughtful, honest people who hold your values to represent you.
Wake up to the pervasive corruption that rules us or become enslaved.
There are so many ignorant comments about how great these guys are. You seem completely unconcerned about environmental destruction the Koch Bros cause who seemingly have no regrets about destroying whatever is in their paths. What will you do when there is no clean drinking water? Buy it from the Koch Bros? I will boycott their products forever….
I feel that it doesn’t if the economy get better because when the shock market go up the oil prices go up? So we will have start with the oil companies with their greed.
Are you all going to boycott toilet paper too?
Don’t forget that the top law school scholarship at Washburn Law In Topeka, KS is from Koch Industries. I guess one would not be surprised the school to be rather pro-corporation?
I am much encouraged by the increasing number of younger people that seem to be intellectually more informed about people like the koch bros., on the whole, than previous generations. The truth is, your country probably has not been run by a pure government by the people for decades! It’s more likely run by something called a corporatocracy to the tune of at least 65%. U.S. presidents at this point are kept on a short lease and congress is composed of individuals who are controlled either by lobbyists or constant fundraising for reelection. In other words, our system is a play being acted out for the american people by well paid actors. It’s an illusion. These billionaire corporate moguls are inch by inch gaining a foothold on how the country and the world is run. If the supreme court and others continue to aid them, boycots and protests will be little more than reality tv entertainment. The citizenry will have to become more enlightened in a hurry.
Disgraceful that these men are so powerful in our democracy that they can buy the government.
@ Lugnut. I’m going to boycott the toilet paper they are associated with, as well as any other of Koch’s products I can avoid. Charmin suddenly seems that more soft and comforting.
I was looking at household items the Koch Bros are associated with to boycott but I don’t use any so i will have to look deeper. These men are making more than enough money that they could easily use some of it to make the world a cleaner healthier place but choose instead dump money into political candidates who will do their dirty bidding.
just learned all this from the colbert report, i will choose my purcahses more closely
Stephen Colbert gave me the idea to look for this list. So glad it’s out there. Will be sure not to use any of these products. Going to share this list with anyone with at least one ear!
Koch Bros. trying to destroy the ‘ middle class’? Hilarious.
Eeeeeeverything’s a conspiracy, in the Utopian mind.
Koch Bros. products are dependent on a middle class that will purchase those products.
Only a childish mind which has been manipulated by the class warfare merchants (you know who you are) is ignorant enough to believe such tripe.
…….just this morning, went back to using hemp instead of Quilted Northern.
I just KNEW somebody was ripping me off with that Quilted Northern.
Thanks for letting me know it was the Koch Bros. I just had a feeling…..and now I know. I feel like….like…..like I’ve just been brought into the light…..
Koch-owned Georgia Pacific: a company which practices genuine forestry, as opposed to the Loon-Druids on the Left, who have brought about a state of almost total non-management in the National Forests.
The result: National Forests are turning orange and brown, full of dead timber, tinderboxes ready to burn.
But a typical Loon doesn’t even know this, since he is pretty much urban-imprisoned–mind AND body.
Be proud, Loons. Ignorance is bliss.
And watch out for those SUCCESSFUL people who are always plottin’ agin’ ya.
Hilarious.
…thanks for turnin’ me on to the evil of the profit-making Kochs.
I changed, therefore, from Quilted Northern to my local collective’s brand–HippieHemp–even tho’ it costs three times as much. It’s ‘recycled’ (they wouldn’t lie) and no actual trees are involved, so I had to go wit it.
I am concerned about a coupla things, tho’. A friend of said that some of the hemp used was old growth hemp, and that is going to pi$$ off Gaeia.
But here’s the big one–I’ve just learned that the co-op is actually trying to charge me more for HippieHemp than THEY paid for it. Yup, folks–they’re trying to make a profit. What has this world come to…………
So much damage done to the environment, stop the fines, it is now prison time!