Kansas Facts

Based in Wichita, Kan., Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America according to Forbes magazine. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals and biofuels; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; minerals; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; commodity trading and services; forest and consumer products; and ranching. Koch companies have a presence in nearly 60 countries and employ about 67,000 people. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested about $45 billion in acquisitions and other capital expenditures.

With more than 2,600 employees in Kansas, the company’s Wichita headquarters, a 1.2 million-square-foot office complex houses specialized capabilities such as human resources; environment, health and safety; information technology; public affairs; risk management; legal services; tax and audit services; and business development.

Companies in Kansas

Flint Hills Resources, LLC, through its subsidiaries, is a leading refining and chemicals 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 Alaska (North Pole), Minnesota (Rosemount) and Texas (Corpus Christi), with a combined crude oil processing capacity of more than 800,000 barrels per day. The petrochemical business includes production facilities in Illinois, Michigan and Texas. These plants produce aromatics, olefins, polymers and intermediate chemicals. The renewables business operates ethanol plants in Iowa, 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 an interest in a lubricants base oil facility in Louisiana.

Koch Pipeline Company, L.P.’s Pipeline Control Center, is the hub for remote pipeline control, monitoring and information sharing. KPL’s innovative pipeline monitoring system has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution. The pipeline control center continuously monitors more than 4,000 miles of pipelines in North America that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, ethanol, natural gas and chemicals.

INVISTA B.V. and its subsidiaries are among the world’s largest producers of polymers and fibers, primarily nylon, spandex and polyester. With a business presence in more than 20 countries, INVISTA materials go into items that enrich people’s lives every day including clothing, carpet, luggage, automobile interiors, airbags and many other products. INVISTA businesses include Apparel, Intermediates, Performance Surfaces & Materials, Polymer & Resins, and Performance Technologies. INVISTA delivers exceptional value for its customers through technology innovations, market insights and a powerful portfolio of global trademarked products including LYCRA^® fiber, STAINMASTER^® carpet, ANTRON^® carpet fiber and COOLMAX^® fabric.

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC has a plant in Blue Rapids that manufactures gypsum interior and exterior sheathing and plaster. The company’s building products business has long been among the nation’s leading suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. Georgia-Pacific LLC, based in Atlanta, and its subsidiaries have about 300 manufacturing facilities across North America, South America and Europe, ranging from large pulp, paper and tissue operations to gypsum plants, box plants and building products operations.

Wichita employees of Koch Supply & Trading, LP trade commodities and provide accounting, tax and other support capabilities for traders around the world.

Koch-Glitsch, LP and its subsidiaries are global leaders 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. Koch-Glitsch is a Koch Chemical Technology Group, LLC company.

Koch Nitrogen Company, LLC owns and operates facilities in Dodge City that produce ammonia and UAN. These facilities provide fertilizer to customers in Kansas and the Midwest. The company and its affiliates have the capability to market and distribute more than 13 million metric tons of fertilizer products annually.

Koch Carbon, LLC and its subsidiaries globally trade and transport petroleum coke, coal, cement, sulfur and other related commodities through a network of bulk import/export terminals in the United States and Europe.

The Matador Cattle Company, a division of Koch Agriculture Company, owns and operates three ranches: Beaverhead in Montana, Matador in Texas and Spring Creek in Kansas. Acquired between 1941 and 1952 by Fred C. Koch, co-founder of what is now Koch Industries, the ranches today total about 425,000 acres under management, including about 240,000 deeded acres. The ranches wean about 10,000 calves annually and support more than 15,000-plus head of cattle in the production herds.

Safety and Environmental Commitment
Koch companies are committed to operating businesses in a manner that protects the health and safety of employees, the public and the environment. Koch companies’ safety performance is among the best in the industry and the companies strive to protect the environment by reducing waste and increasing efficiency. Here are some examples:

Koch Industries' received the Clean Air and Sustainability Award for the conservation program at its Wichita headquarters, which has resulted in a reduction in water use and community air emissions, as well as an increase in recycling.
Koch Pipeline Company received the 2010 Distinguished Award for Outstanding Safety and Environmental Performance from the American Petroleum Institute, its highest award. KPL’s safety record has also been recognized with API’s Occupational Safety Award and the National Safety Council’s Occupational Industry Leader Award, among many others. The company was named one of America’s Safest Companies by EHS Today magazine in 2008. The Southern Operations Group has earned VPP STAR in the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Programs, the fourth pipeline group to do so. In March 2011, employees reached 10 years, which equals nearly 7 million work hours, without a lost-time incident.
In 2011, Koch Industries Inc.’s office tower received Energy Star certification for the fourth consecutive year from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is the only Wichita office building to earn this honor and one of only seven in Kansas. Energy Star is the national symbol for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection.
Koch Nitrogen Company has earned the Stewardship Award for safe shipping from Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company for three consecutive years. It has also earned the Pinnacle Award from Union pacific and the Safe Handling Award from the Canadian National Railway Company.
Flint Hills Resources and INVISTA have earned numerous awards from the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association for outstanding safety achievements.
Employees at Matador Cattle Company's ranches in Kansas, Montana and Texas have worked three years without a lost-time incident and two years without an OSHA recordable incident.
Flint Hills Resources and INVISTA have earned numerous awards from the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association for outstanding safety achievements.
Koch-Glitsch was named one of the safest companies in America by Occupational Hazards Magazine in 2006. Three of the company’s manufacturing sites - Dallas, Houston and Wichita - have achieved OSHA VPP STAR status for outstanding safety records.
Koch Aviation, located at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, received the 60-Year Safety Award from the National Business Aviation Association. The company was also the recipient of the association’s Corporate Business Flying Safety Award for 104,993 accident-free flying hours. It is the first corporate aviation team in the U.S. to earn OSHA VPP STAR status.

Community Commitment
Koch companies are committed to understanding the needs of the community and participating in projects and activities that add value to their neighbors. Here are a few examples:

Bucket Brigade™
In 2011, the Waterville Fire Department received a $5,000 grant from Georgia-Pacific’s Bucket Brigade program. The Bucket Brigade program helps small town and rural community fire departments across the United States meet critical needs.

Exploration Place
Koch Industries donated $50,000 to help renovate and restore the Kansas in Miniature exhibit at Exploration Place, Kansas’ premier science museum in Wichita. Koch provided the funds to create the exhibit when the museum opened in 2001. The popular exhibit shows facets of Kansas through the lens of the 1950s, including agriculture, geology, transportation and communication. Visitors can compare and contrast history and our modern world.

YMCA
A $300,000 grant from Koch Industries to the Every Kid Capital Campaign will fund the aquatic center and water safety education programs in a new downtown YMCA to be completed in 2012.

Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education
Koch Industries launched the Koch Green Schools Grants, part of the Kansas Green Schools Program. A total of $5,000 in competitive grants is available to help schools develop creative, innovative, effective environmental projects. Koch also sponsored KACEE’s 2011 Kansas Environmental Education.

The Kansas African American Museum
More than 300 Wichita-area fourth and fifth-grade students will experience the Freedom Riders exhibit that chronicles the fight to end segregation in bus and rail stations. A transportation grant from Koch Industries makes the visits possible.

Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters
2012 marks the 38th year Koch Industries has supported Big Brothers Big Sisters. For the past five years, Koch Industries has donated $150,000 for the annual Bowl for Kid’s Sake campaign. Employees of Koch companies also raised more than $55,000 during the 2012 campaign, and continue to rank among the highest in the state in terms of volunteer participation in BBBS mentoring programs.

Kansas Food Bank
For more than 20 years, employees of Koch companies have raised money and donated food for the Kansas Food Bank, a centralized distribution site for programs that help feed those in need throughout the state. In 2010, employees donated more than 222,000 pounds of food to help alleviate hunger. Similar projects take place at Koch company locations throughout the U.S.

Kansas Science Olympiad
Koch Industries was the primary sponsor of the Kansas Science Olympiad in 2011 and 2010. The annual event attracts hundreds of middle and high school students from across the state to participate in biology, chemistry, physics and engineering events. The goal of Science Olympiad is to increase the interest and proficiency of students in the study of science, promote team work, recognize outstanding student and teacher achievements, and improve the quality of science education in Kansas.

Rainbows United, Inc.
In 2010, Koch Industries, Inc. donated $75,000 to Rainbows United’s New Day Campaign, which will support the organization’s comprehensive programs for children with special needs in partnership with the family. In 2006, Koch donated 10-acres of land for the agency’s 26,000-square-foot facility and outdoor learning center in northeast Wichita. In addition, the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation donated $50,000 to the agency’s capital campaign.

Open Door
Open Door received a $10,000 grant from Koch Industries in 2010 to help renovate its downtown facility. The organization provides vital outreach programs for the disadvantaged and homeless.

Salvation Army
Employees of Koch companies in Wichita surpassed their goal for the 2011 Salvation Army Angel Tree drive, with nearly $21,000 in donations and 1,120 area children and adult angels served. It was the 21st consecutive year Koch companies employees organized and participated in the Angel Tree drive. Employees of Koch companies also provided school supplies inlcuding 130 new calculators for Wichita-area middle and high school students for the organization’s 2011 School Supply Landslide. In addition, The Salvation Army was awarded a $30,000 grant by Koch Industries to meet critical needs and purchase new furniture for its Youth Residential and Emergency Shelter facilities at the Koch Center in downtown Wichita.

W.G. Williams Community Foundation and the Multicultural Affairs Office of Wichita State University
In 2009, Koch Industries, Inc. received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Corporation of the Year Award. The award is given to a company that exemplifies values that support and promote education and continuing education excellence; excellence in promoting the value of inclusion within their corporate structure; an established diversity program that excels in active recruitment and promotion of ethnic minorities; and encouragement of its employees in community volunteer programs.

Habitat for Humanity
Koch Industries donated $60,000 to Habitat for Humanity for its 2010 Blitz Build in Wichita. In addition, more than 500 employees of Koch companies and other volunteers helped build several homes during the eight-day blitz. Koch companies have a long-standing involvement with Habitat for Humanity, completing their fifth Habitat home in 2010. Koch Nitrogen Company donated $65,000 in 2008 to help build one of the first Habitat for Humanity homes in tornado-ravaged Greensburg, Kan., with hundreds of employees of Koch companies and their families participating in the four-week build. In 2007, Koch Industries and Flint Hills Resources provided funding and volunteers to build a Habitat home in Wichita.

Disaster Relief
Koch Industries, Inc. donated $1 million to American Red Cross and The Salvation Army for disaster relief efforts in Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. In addition, Koch Industries' subsidiary Georgia-Pacific contributed much needed paper and tableware products through Convoy of Hope and Feed The Children. Since 2005, Koch companies and employees have contributed more than $4.7 million in cash and in-kind donations to relief agencies to help disaster victims worldwide, including the Salvation Army to help victims of the Greensburg, Kan., tornado and the Red Cross Society of China following the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan provence. The American Red Cross recognized Koch Industries' long-standing commitment to its humanitarian mission, honoring the company with the Corporate Excellence Award in 2011.

Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland
A grant from Koch Industries in 2010 launched a pilot project to encourage greater participation among Hispanic girls in Girl Scout programs. Additional funding was provided in 2011.

Boys & Girls Clubs of South Central Kansas
In partnership with the Kansas Council of Economic Education, Koch Industries provided after-school economic education programs to students in 5^th through 8^thth grade and sponsored a Youth Entrepreneurs business camp during the summer of 2010.

Youth Entrepreneurs Kansas^®
Koch companies are proud supporters of Youth Entrepreneurs Kansas (YEK), a program that teaches business and entrepreneurial skills in high school classrooms, and offers hands-on experience to help students succeed as business owners or employees. Since its founding in 1991, more than 10,000 students have graduated from YEK. Today, programs are in 29 schools in the greater Wichita area, Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City, and Independence, Mo. A donation from Koch Nitrogen Company helped launch programs in Dodge City and Garden City. Liz Koch chairs YEK’s board of directors.

Quivira Council Boy Scouts of America
Koch Industries donated 5.1 acres in Wichita valued at nearly $400,000 for the council’s new 15,000-square-foot service center. The new center will enable the organization to better serve its volunteers, leaders and Scouting families. The council serves more than 13,000 young people in 30 counties in south and southeastern Kansas with a values-based, character development program.

Kansas State University
Along with the Fred and Mary Koch Foundation, Koch Industries has made donations totaling $400,000 to the university’s office of diversity. The donations support K-State's Project IMPACT, which focuses on increasing the number of multicultural students and programs to help those students succeed in college.

Wichita State University
Koch Industries donated $6 million to WSU’s Roundhouse Renaissance Campaign to renovate the outdated basketball arena, which was dedicated in November 2003. In 2008, Koch Industries’ support of the university’s Next Level Project helped upgrade the lower level concourse of Charles G. Koch Arena.

Sedgwick County Zoo
Koch Industries is a proud supporter of the Sedgwick County Zoo. The company provided funding for the Koch Orangutan & Chimpanzee Habitat, which offers a close look at baby chimpanzees and orangutans in a natural environment. Jane Goodall, a world-renowned naturalist, selected this exhibit as the first training site for her ChimpanZoo project.

Performing Arts
Koch Industries supports a variety of cultural events and organizations, including the annual Koch Twilight Pops Concert during the Wichita River Festival. 2011 marked the 30th year Koch has sponsored this free symphony concert that attracts up to 100,000 people for an evening of music under the stars by the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. Koch Industries also supports other Wichita Symphony events and productions presented by Music Theatre of Wichita.

Dodge City Community Support
Koch Nitrogen makes land available to Dodge City Community College for its crop science program. Proceeds from crop sales benefit the college’s recruiting and scholarship programs. The company is a major sponsor of two annual premier community events, Dodge City Days and the PRCA Rodeo.

Other Organizations Supported by Koch Companies

Arts Partners

Communities in Schools

Goodwill Industries

Great Plains Nature Center

Harbor House

Junior Achievement

Kansas Council on Economic

Education

Nonprofit Chamber of Service

Special Olympics

The Nature Conservancy

United Way of the Plains

Wichita Children’s Home