Koch Overview

• Applying Market-Based Management^®, Koch companies’ unique business philosophy that brings the power of the free market inside the businesses to maximize value creation and succeed long term.
• Fostering Principled Entrepreneurship™ and a culture that empowers employees to produce results and create real value.
• Operating efficiently and safely, with a steadfast commitment to environmental excellence and 100 percent compliance.
  

Koch companies are involved in these diverse industries:

Refining, Chemicals and Biofuels

Flint Hills Resources, LLC, through its subsidiaries, is a leading refining, chemicals and biofuels company. Its subsidiaries market products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol, biodiesel, olefins, polymers and intermediate chemicals, as well as base oils and asphalt. The refining business operates refineries in Minnesota, Texas and Alaska with a combined crude oil processing capacity of about 670,000 barrels per day. The petrochemical business includes production facilities in Illinois, Michigan and Texas. The renewables business operates ethanol plants in Iowa and Nebraska, a biodiesel plant in Texas, and has made equity investments in bioenergy companies. The asphalt business produces and markets product in the Midwest and Alaska. A subsidiary owns a 50 percent interest in a lubricants base oil facility in Louisiana.

A Koch Supply & Trading company operates an 80,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. owns or operates more than 4,000 miles of pipelines that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, ethanol, natural gas liquids and chemicals. Another Koch company has a 28 percent interest in Colonial Pipeline Company, owner and operator of the world’s largest-volume refined products pipeline.

Forest and Consumer Products

Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific LLC and its subsidiaries are among the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. Familiar consumer tissue brands include Quilted Northern^®, Angel Soft^®, Brawny^®, enMotion^®, Sparkle^®, Mardi Gras^®, and Vanity Fair^®, as well as the Dixie^® brand of cups, plates and cutlery. Georgia-Pacific has long been a leading supplier of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers, with brands such as Plytanium^® plywood, Ply-Bead^® panels and Wood I Beam™ joists, and DensArmor Plus^® interior wallboard panels, DensGlass^® sheathing and ToughRock^® drywall.

Fertilizers

Koch Fertilizer, LLC and its subsidiaries are among the world's largest producers and marketers of fertilizer products. Subsidiaries own or have interests in nitrogen fertilizer plants in the United States, Canada, and Trinidad and Tobago. The companies cover global demand through an extensive supply, storage and distribution system that includes terminals in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, France and the United Kingdom. Koch Fertilizer companies offer an industry-leading portfolio of products such as the AGROTAIN^®, Nexen^® and Nitamin brands of high performance fertilizers, and have the capability to market and distribute more than 13 million tons of fertilizer products annually.

Polymers and Fibers

With leading brands including LYCRA^®, COOLMAX^®, CORDURA^®, STAINMASTER^® and ANTRON^®, INVISTA is one of the world’s largest integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers. The company’s advantaged technologies for nylon, spandex and polyester are used to produce clothing, carpet, car parts and countless other everyday products. INVISTA operates in more than 20 countries.

Process & Pollution Control Equipment & Technologies

Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC and its subsidiaries design, manufacture, install and service process and pollution control equipment, and provide engineering services for industries and municipalities worldwide. Subsidiaries include:

• Koch-Glitsch, LP is a global leader in the design, manufacture and installation of mass transfer and mist elimination equipment. The company’s products are found in virtually every refinery and chemical plant in the world.

• John Zink Hamworthy Combustion is a global leader in ultra-low emission process burners, boiler burners, duct burners, flares and thermal oxidizers. The company is also a global supplier of flare gas/vapor recovery and vapor combustor systems.

• 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. The company also provides submerged membranes used in industrial and municipal wastewater treatment.

• Optimized Process Designs provides consulting, engineering, design, procurement, fabrication and construction services for the natural gas and gas processing industries. OPD has been the general contractor on some of the largest natural gas plants built in the U.S.

• Koch Heat Transfer Company, LP designs and fabricates proprietary and custom heat exchangers for a global customer base.

• Koch Knight, LLC is a leader in acid proof solutions. The company offers acid proof products, installation and repair services for the mining, chemical process and environmental industries. Its products, made from state-of-the-art ceramics and plastic materials, are available worldwide.

Commodity Trading and Services

Koch Supply & Trading companies around the world trade crude oil; refined petroleum products; gas liquids; natural gas, liquefied natural gas and emission allowances; industrial metals; and other commodities.

KS&T and other Koch companies have traders or originators in Wichita, Houston, New York, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Minerals

Koch Minerals, LLC and its subsidiaries are among the world’s largest dry-bulk commodity handlers, marketing and trading more than 40 million tons of product annually. Subsidiaries include:

• Koch Carbon, LLC specializes in the global sourcing, supply, handling and transportation of bulk commodities such as petroleum coke, coal, sulfur, pulp and paper products, and other related commodities, utilizing 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 used in industrial applications and power generation. 

• Koch Exploration Company, LLC acquires, develops and trades petroleum and natural gas properties in the United States and Canada.

• KM Proppants, LLC is an emerging provider of bulk materials and logistics services to oilfield service and production companies. 

Ranching

The Matador Cattle Company, a division of Koch Agriculture Company, operates three ranches: Beaverhead in Montana, Matador in Texas and Spring Creek in Kansas. The ranches were acquired between 1941 and 1952 by Fred C. Koch, co-founder of what is now Koch Industries. Today, the ranches total more than 440,000 acres under management, including about 230,000 deeded acres. The ranches wean about 9,000 calves annually and support more than 11,000 cattle. The ranches stock Akaushi cattle whose beef is prized for its marbling and taste. In Texas, Matador Ranch offers whitetail, mule deer, turkey, quail, hog and predator hunts on the main ranch and within permitted managed hunting areas and preserves. Matador Ranch is also engaged in breeding superior deer to supply this growing industry.

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