FOLLOWING THE KOCH BROTHERS...
Georgia-Pacific 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 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.
Wood Products:
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.
Textiles and Plastics
via Invista Products:
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
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.
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, coke, 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.
www.kochind.com
Koch Industries Produces:
* Gasoline
* Diesel
* Jet fuel
* Naphtha
* Asphalt
* 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."*
www.fhrstage.fhr.com
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.
Pipelines:
Koch Pipeline Company,
L.P. and its affiliates own or operate about 4,000 miles of pipelines
that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas
liquids and chemicals.
Koch Alaska Pipeline Company,
LLC owns an approximate 3 percent interest in the Trans Alaska Pipeline
System. Another Koch company has a 28 percent interest in Colonial
Pipeline Company, owner and operator of the world’s largest-volume
refined products pipeline.
Fertilizer:
Koch Fertilizer, LLC and its affiliates; have the capability to manufacture, market and distribute more than
10 million tons of nitrogen fertilizer products annually.
They distribute to dealers, so their product has many a label.
"Fertilizer today is an intensely industrial business more akin to oil
refining or chemical production."*
www.kochind.com
Equipment:
Koch-Glitsch,
LP and its affiliates are global leaders in the design, manufacture and
installation of mass transfer and mist elimination equipment. The
company’s products are found in refineries and chemical plants
worldwide.
Koch Membrane Systems, Inc.
develops and manufactures membrane separation systems for a variety of
applications worldwide, including membranes for microfiltration,
ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis.
John Zink Company,
LLC and its affiliates are global leaders in ultra-low emission process
burners, boiler burners, duct burners, flares and thermal oxidizers.
The companies are also global suppliers of flare gas/vapor recovery and
vapor combustor systems.
Cattle:
Koch Agriculture Company,
operates three ranches with a total of 15,000 head of cattle in Kansas,
Montana, and Texas. "Matador Ranch in Texas offers a number of hunting
packages that include first-class accommodations. Everything is provided
to ensure an enjoyable experience."
www.kochind.com
Services:
Koch Supply & Trading companies
around the world trade and provide risk management services in crude
oil; refined petroleum products; natural gas and gas liquids; gas, power
and emissions; industrial metals; and other commodities and financial
instruments.
Optimized Process Designs, Inc.
provides consulting, engineering, design, procurement, fabrication and
construction services for the natural gas and gas processing industries
worldwide. OPD has been the general contractor on some of the largest
natural gas plants built in the U.S.
Koch Knight
LLC and its affiliates are leaders in acid proof solutions. The
companies offer construction, engineering and services through a global
network of manufacturing and outsourcing facilities. Their products,
made from state-of-the-art ceramics and plastic materials, are available
worldwide.
IPT provides the resources and
know how to deliver world-scale technology for licensing to a growing
portfolio of technologies in the polyester, polyurethane and nylon value
chains.
European brands:
Colhogar®- Delica®
- Demak'Up®
- Inversoft®
- Kitten Soft®
- Lotus®
- Moltonel®
- Nouvelle®
- Okay
- Tenderly®
- Tutto®
Source =
www.kochind.com
Logos property of Koch Industries
www.worldofkoch.com
Pollution:
University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research
Institute, shows Koch Industries as one of the nation’s top 10
polluters/emitters. See detailed emissions breakdowns -
www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_index
A Sampling of Environmental Charges Verses Koch:
September 2000,
a federal grand jury in Corpus Christi, Texas returned a 97-count
indictment against Koch Industries Inc., Koch Petroleum Group for
violating federal clean air and hazardous waste laws, due to the release
of at least 91 metric tons of uncontrolled, untreated carcinogenic
benzene.
www.justice.gov
March 2000,
Koch petroleum which operates a refinery in Rosemount, Minn., was
sentenced to pay a $6 million criminal fine and pay an additional $2
million in remediation costs. This is the largest federal environmental
fine ever paid in Minnesota. Koch admitted that it negligently
discharged 200,000 - 600,000 gallons of aviation fuel into a wetland and
an adjoining waterway. In addition, their way of recovering the fuel (a
year and a half later) destroyed a portion of the surrounding ecosystem
and wildlife habitat. In a separate offense, Koch dumped a million
gallons of wastewater with high ammonia content on the ground between
November 1996 and March 1997 and also increased its flow of wastewater
into the Mississippi River on weekends when no one monitored discharges.
These actions allowed Koch to circumvent the weekly monitoring and
reporting requirements of its wastewater discharge permit. The case was
investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI and the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and was prosecuted by the U. S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota.
www.ehso.com
Koch's Sterling butane pipeline
had a leak in Lively, Texas, on August 24, 1996. Two teenagers on the
way to report the leak drove into the unseen butane cloud, and were
killed when the gas exploded and burned. The National Transportation
Safety Board concluded that severe external pipeline corrosion was the
cause of the failure.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
In 1999,
a federal jury found that Koch Industries had stolen oil from
government and American Indian lands and had lied about its purchases
more than 24,000 times.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
In January 2000, Koch Pipeline,
agreed to a $35 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and
the State of Texas as fines for the firm's three hundred oil spills
(300 million gallons) in Texas and five other states going back to 1990.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
Clip from new Koch Brother's movie: www.youtube.com
Climate Change Denial:
A March 2010 Greenpeace report shows that Koch Industry foundations
have contributed (2005-2008) nearly $25 million to organizations that
oppose clean energy and climate policy. That does not include oil and
gas lobbying of $37.9 million. For more info on Koch Industries' funding
of Climate Denial Groups -- See GreenPeace's report "Koch Industries
Funding the Climate Denial Machine"
www.greenpeace.org
In the August, 2010 New York Magazine article '
Covert Operations,'
oil tycoon David Koch was quoted as saying, global warming will be a
good thing for the planet and will help "support enormously more people
because a far greater land area will be available to produce food."
www.newyorker.com
Revenue:
Koch Industries currently brings in $100 billion in revenue annually.
Each brother is personally worth $21.5 billion. Together 43 billion.*
Koch Industries spent a total of $37.9 million on oil and gas lobbying
from January 2006 to December 2009.
www.sourcewatch.org
*www.thinkprogress.org
Voting:
Since the Citizen's United decision, corporations can now attempt to
influence their employees' votes. The Koch Brothers jumped on that band
wagon right away and mailed out lists of Koch supported candidates to
their 50,000 employees during the last election. See info and a copy of a
recommended election packet at
www.thenation.com
University Affairs:
"Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University
raises questions" They give as long as they can pick the teachers.
www.tampabay.com
Not Just Florida State...Utah, West Virginia, etc...
www.insidehighered.com
The Mercatus Center is a conservative Think Tank at George Mason
University’s Arlington campus. It is a university-based research center
that makes its research findings available to the media and public
policy makers. According to GreenPeace the Mercatus Center has received
over 10 million dollars worth of funding from the Koch Brothers.
Mercatus also fights environmental regulation, opposes clean energy
legislation and lobbys to prevent curbs on industrial pollution.
www.greenpeace.org mercatus.org
