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.
Great Blog!
As per ‘The Result’ of YOUR assessment …Sadly, the fact is that the ‘Bark-Beetle’ is destroying more forest land than anything or anyone else could possibly.
Calling concerned citizens (such as yourself) Druids and Loons only shows your lack of understanding as to what we are all going to have to do… Kill the bugs. If we don’t kill the bugs (i.e. bark beetles) we will no longer have trees to argue about.
So… no trees, no argue… Then again, no Oxygen either….
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Will be spreading the list view my Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Just so everyone knows, in 2008 Koch was included in Businessweek’s list of top 50 American givers. Between 2004-2008, Koch gave $246 million, focusing on ‘libertarian causes, giving money for academic and public policy research and social welfare.’
Boy, they sure are evil, huh?
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What’s that cris (Reply #408)? Did you say that between 2004-2008, Koch spent $246 million, to influence academic and public policy research under the guise of social welfare? We already knew that. If you’ve kept up with the news, you’d know that the Heartland Foundation is just the latest such ‘shell organization’ (if you will) to be exposed. (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/leak-exposes-heartland-institute-climate et. al.) They were working an an entire set of ‘science alternative’ K-12 modules to teach kids that climate change isn’t something they should worry about because they know that the formative years are important ones.
Wow, I guess I was behind on the news. It looks like a Heartland Foundation associate also managed to infiltrate Carleton University in Ottawa, to teach a course that was supposed to be about climate change, even though his background is mechanical engineering and climate change denial. So they are going after more than just K-12.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/28/heartland-associate-climate-scepticism-ottawa-university
Been using ONLYt Angel Soft for years. No more. How appropriate that the human waste known as the Koch’s deals in collecting human waste,
Even if the Koch’s ‘charitable giving’ *wasn’t* as scam, it wouldn’t excuse the harm they are inflicting on this country. Maybe any real giving (if there IS any( is just a way to try to buy themselves out of an eventual stint in hell. Sorry guys, won’t work.
Plz excuse typos just below.
Koch self-reports environmental accidents to the EPA. Charles Koch expects 10,000% compliance with regulations – 100 % of the time by 100% of its operations.
Any company that manufactures the range of products that KI makes and that has revenues of $100 billion per year will have accidents. The naarrow-minded green solution is to stop producing all such products. Is that realistic? How many people who are anti-Koch drive gas guzzlers, I wonder.
It is so easy to point fingers at the other guy, especially when he’s making good money. Making money is hard evidence that he is doing something illegal, or so say the morons.
We live and work in an adversarial environment. Much easier than to reason and work as one nation.
The least that any decent citizen can do is boycott any of these products that s/he can. Certainly, we should avoid any university that would sell their souls to these scumbags.
Well now we know who is truly running this country: the brothers who own it heart and soul!
It is too bad more people and companies are not standing up for Liberty like the Koch Brothers and their great, profit making machine. Now that I know what they make, I will certainly buy more of it. Profit is what gives us such a great lifestyle and separates us from the struggling masses of many years ago. The environment is in great shape and clearly does not require anybody to look after it. Today is another sunny, beautiful day with clean water and clean air. Anybody seeing anything else is delusional and probably jealous of hard working people using the earth’s vast resources to seek a better life. The earch was designed for people, not the other way around.
I give the Koch Brothers a AAA+++ rating.
I give barry hussein sotero an F….for F–king FAILURE.
I will share this list with the members of my church. We care about the environment. We believe that we have to be good stewards of the earth.
This company is an enterprise which donates millions to politicians. I refuse to buy products from such businesses that are not playing by the same rules as the rest of us. The resources you are pillaging are the peoples not yours. Sorry, its time for the people to take the resources back. The devil has taken over America.
Now you know why the Koch Brothers have spent so much money lobbying congress to get rid of the E.P.A. and end all EPA regulations. They say it has to do with creating jobs but it actually has nothing to do with creating jobs when you look at their record. This group doesn’t even include the bad stuff they’ve done oversees. Oh boy! Not the good guys by a long shot. Notice that most of their problems went away during GWB’s administration. But then again, the only way they got caught was people in the company who grew a conscience and turned them in.
Is there any chance you could develop a nationwide conversion system for cars and trucks to natural gas? I’d convert my Explorer in a nano second if I could. I know it would be a boon to 18 wheelers, too. We have a local natural gas ‘station’ near McCarron Airport. Gas there is $2.79. With all the resources we have in the USA, we could drastically reduce imports.
I am for burning everything combustible because it came from the earth and needs to burn to return. I am for Steam Power Locomotion; reduction of landfill waste and use of effluent water to produce steam through these Massive Industrial Age Machines of transportation. Ashes to ashes; Dust to Dust. Know what I am saying. This is part of going green and reducing the cost of living. It is an investment for the long haul in Rural America, To many benefits from burning to list. I am for Solar-electric High Speed Bullet ‘SupersonicStraightShot’ MonoRail Trains too. The Sun Shines everyday. I want to run High Golden Plains Railway Straight down One Lane of the interstate; Reducing Auto mobile travel to reduce fuel costs and use every resource we have available to rebuild America and American Made Values. We have the tools to Recycle anything Customize, Upgrade, Why not use everything we have and stop dilly dalling over this and that till it is all used up.
Ralphs Supermarkets in Los Angeles is selling under the label HOME together with Ralphs label and it is distributed by the Kroger Company
Don’t let their money intimidate you! Your VOTE, your Voice will make a difference.
Thanks for exposing these robber barons!! Awful people driven by selfish greed and corruption hurt the rest of us.
I am making an effort to not buy their products.
Thanks for exposing these robber barons!! Awful people driven by selfish greed and corruption hurt the rest of us.’
DO YOU have the same opinion of George Soros, who has knowingly bankrupted the Bank of England (thus hurt millions of people ) for his own financial gain with his market and currency manipulation and dealings ??
Yet you believe that the Koch brothers are selfish and greedy robber barons because they built and grew successful businesses, employ and give livelihood to tens of thousands of people and give hundreds of millions to charity and humanitarian causes. What’s wrong with you???
‘…To be sure, the Kochs have given ‘more than a hundred million dollars to right wing causes’ (which is their right, by the way). But in the last decade, it’s also worth noting the Kochs have given more than $600 million in pledged or donated money to arts, education, and medical research, including (but not limited to):
New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell: $15 million / M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: $25 million / The Hospital for Special Surgery: $26 million / Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $30 million / Prostate Cancer Foundation: $41 million / Deerfield Academy: $68 million / Lincoln Center’s NY State Theater: $100 million / Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $139 million…’
I beg you people, please wake up and realize that you live in the real world with real problems and real evil doers. There are leaders of nations that what nothing more than your demise and destruction if only economical. You support a president that ( placing all other disagreements and opinions aside ) chooses to bring our country, your families, friends and children to that eventuality of economical downfall.
DO YOU NOT REALIZE that national debt much like your personal debt can and will destroy the country same as your home and family.
HOW CAN YOU dismiss endless examples though out history including recent events and assume that somehow this nation of ours is immune to the same economic laws and results.
OMG…reading some of these comments, simply confirms that ‘Liberalism is a mental disorder’…..
WAKE UP !!!
Thanks for exposing these robber barons!! Awful people driven by selfish greed and corruption hurt the rest of us.’
Ohh and would you be so kind and explain how the Koch brothers have hurt you and the rest of ‘us’
The Koch brothers started the group Americans for Prosperity, an organization whose goal is ‘advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity’. I think it is safe to say that all Americans would be in support of this, as I’d assume everyone would like the chance to build a positive and economically solid future for themselves and their families. However, I urge everyone who has written that the Koch brothers and their companies/investments are validated by the right they have as Americans to turn a profit and put their money behind what they believe in, to look at the recent events in Wake County. The public schools in this area of NC are known for excellent academic achievements and an extremely diverse student body. However, when school board elections rolled around, the Koch brothers were funding the election campaigns of the four new board members who ended up getting hired. These new members had a new agenda for Wake County: to stop bussing students to these diverse schools, and focus on neighborhood schools, which essentially was resulting in re-segregation of the public schools due to the concentration of minority students in certain neighborhoods. The community fought back and ended up having these four members kicked off the school board. This is just one of the many examples of how the Koch brothers and their affiliates are impacting more than just the economic state of our country. Yes it is important that companies turn a profit, yes it’s important that they employ and create jobs, yes companies should be able to invest money where they see fit. But I don’t see HOW you could possibly say that there is nothing wrong with what the Koch brothers are doing, when you hear of news like this. Perhaps some of you are lucky enough to live in affluent areas where you don’t have to look at coal plants burning in your backyard, or can afford to send your children to private schools so you don’t have to worry about issues of re-segregation. But I urge you to look at both sides of the story. Those who are trying to bring light to the issues that have arisen as a result of the Koch brothers industries’ actions should not be dismissed as utopian hippies who want to end all economic growth. Personally, I think this small example comes down to the fact that I just can’t trust someone who has a clear connection with attempting to reverse something as basic as civil rights. Luckily Wake County was able to see through this and fight back to ensure that their civil rights were not taken away. If this change had been made, students in the poorer areas would not have access to the higher academic programs and better teachers that would allow them to get into better colleges and pursue economic prosperity of their own. So, my response to those of you who say the Koch brothers haven’t hurt anyone, please look further into the extensive array of issues that have risen around them. Educate yourself on both sides of these stories, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but please don’t assume that those who are sharing what they have learned are out to attack prosperity and the American Dream.
It seems that the Koch Brother’s own the United States. Now I know why they are against environmental laws and human rights. Don’t get me wrong I am pro capitalism but in the United States it gets out of hands. Greed! It is greed over common sense. Who is really in charge of the US? And it is a shame that so many politicians are jumping on the band wagon. Those politicians are the executive arm of the Koch Brother’s. I know there is no justice in the world but for a country who calls itself the greatest country in the world, there is a lot of corruption and bribing going on. And the sore losers are the average american people.
More about Koch’s history
https://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?61727-Koch-Brothers-Stalin-funded-treasonous-Commie-bastards!!
I will try not to use any of their products. It is very hard to do in the wood products, though.
Support women April 28th, 2012, UniteWomen.org., Unite Against the War on Women rally all 50 states and DC. We will be passing out the ‘shopping list’ of all the corporations including the Koch Brothers so that the thousands of women at our rallys will be able to protest at the grocery store every time they shop. Help us fight for our rights! ALEC funds the 1100 bills eroding our voting rights, our reproductive rights and union rights.
NEVER WILL I EVER BUY ANOTHER PRODUCT FROM A COMPANY THAT IS PAYING A MURDERERS LEGAL FEES,
Besides polluting our planet, you support murders!! Let Zimmerman and his family pay there own legal fees. Help some murder victims have a decent funeral!!!
In the wake of the Trayvon Martin killing, the ‘Koch’ paper manufacturing company has decided to pay for Zimmerman’s legal fees. We are asking that everyone pass on this info and refrain from purchasing the following paper products or you will be contributing to paying his legal fees.
KOCH PRODUCTS:
ANGEL SOFT
BRAWNY
DIXIE PLATES, BOWLS, NAPKINS
MARDIS GRAS
QUILTED NORTHERN
SOFT AND GENTLE
SPARKLE
VANITY FAIR
ZERO
I do not have anything against the Koch company but if you are supporting the fight against the murder of a young man the died defenseless in the streets of his own neighborhood, I have to question your motives. I believe Zimmerman is guilty based on the facts that have been given and if you all cannot see that how are you running a multi-billion dollar empire? I will not be purchasing any of the products listed and I hope that you all can see the errors associated with standing up for injustice.
Everyone has the right to choose and support, however I will no longer choose to purchase any of these items and will participate in boycotting this.
I WOULD NOT BUY ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR COMPANY.
My family and I will no longer purchase your products. . You have a multi billion dollar company and you choose to waste this on a child murderer- I am brought back with this decision. . I have spread this through my network of friends, family and coworkers as I will continue and go as far as I can to spread this ridiculous mistake of the company. .
An innocent young man got killed and your company is paying the legal fees of his killer. I will spread the news through my network and by mouth.
just so you know, this is just a rumor, there is no truth to it : ) I am completely for him being tried for what he has done, he should be punished, but I always check my facts before jumping on the bandwagon to boycott a place or believing what I read on someone’s FB page. https://twitchy.com/2012/04/19/false-rumor-koch-brothers-are-paying-george-zimmermans-legal-fees/
I don’t use these products too much but now regardless of a sale I WILL NOT PURCHASE ANY OF THEM AT ALL. Stock holders be prepared
These are some of the products that I normally purchase,, but if they are in support of wrong doing, and feel that it is justifiable to kill an unarmed teen who was only trying to get home safely, I truly feel that it would be a crime to use these products in my household.
Boycott this company products!!!
You suck big time I’m spoon done with Angel soft supporting Zimmerman smh Damn you Koch.
We reallyy, seriously need to boycott these products ASAP. And post this list often!
I normally buy your products but while you support the murder of a teenager . I will not buy your products. The autopsy Dr stated that the youngman had no marks on his young hands that went along with this killers statement. Give you carrying a gun is a right to protect yourself and family not to Kill a Child for wearing a hoodie and carring skittles and talking on a phone while walking in the rain. SHAME ON you
Shame on you… why take an interest in this man or his case ? If he was brave enough to approach and murder an unarmed teenager( after the police dispatcher TOLD HIM NOT TOO), who was just walking down the street minding his own business and the next minute his DEAD. What if this was YOUR CHILD. I think about that everyday. DO NOT BUY KOCH PRODUCTS….
You people should really do your research…this company is NOT paying for Zimmerman’s defense. REALLY??? WTF do you think some random company would do that for??? People please use your dang brains for once.
https://www.thatsnonsense.com/view.php?id=1539
Go to this link and you will have the truth of the matter.