Koch Industries continues to do business in Russia

[True Dough]

Evil brothers in arms, literally.

Koch Industries, the conglomerate run by right-wing billionaire Charles Koch, has numerous ongoing business operations in Russia. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Koch Industries has given no indications that those business operations have been suspended. On the contrary, the limited public comments made by Koch subsidiaries operating in Russia indicate that their business activities have continued.

Guardian Industries, for example, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, acquired in 2017. Guardian, a manufacturer of industrial glass and other products, is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan but has production facilities around the world.

Guardian has two glass production plants that operate in Russia. One facility is in Ryazan, Russia, about 120 miles southeast of Moscow. The company added "a new jumbo laminated glass production line" to that facility in August 2021. Another facility is located in Rostov, Russia, near the border with Ukraine. The Rostov plant, which began operations about a decade ago, cost $220 million to build and produces "Guardian’s high-performance, energy-efficient ClimaGuard(R) (residential) and SunGuard(R) (commercial) glass products for construction of homes, offices, retail, health-care and other facilities." It is capable of producing "900 tons of glass per day."

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[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Of course they do.

Their father built the refineries there under Stalin. They have a long history with Russia.

[gab13by13]

2. We have our own oligarchs.

The Kochs founded the Heritage Foundation did it not?

[Scrivener7]

3. Because of course they do.

[doc03]

4. It down to on Koch sucker now, the other needs to check out nt

[Emile]

5. Traitors to democracy!

[Ray Bruns]

6. I'm shocked, shocked.

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. No surprise at all.

I'd bet Halliburton & Blackwater do as well. Under whatever names they're calling themselves these days.

[Chainfire]

8. Oligarchs are a nation of their own.

They are too big to live under the constraints of governments. They are so powerful that they abuse the little people and make us like it.

[FakeNoose]

9. American fuckwit Charlie Koch is 86 years old

He's got one brother that's still living, but it's obvious that Charlie is calling most of the shots on this Libertarian/Ultra-conservative fuckery. What's going to happen when he finally kicks the bucket?

It sounds like Charlie's two children are somewhat normal, or as normal as heirs to a billionaire fortune could ever be. All we can hope is that Mother Nature wastes no time to terminate the selfish greed, hate and racism of the older generation of this awful family. It seems the next generation of Kochs will back away from a lot of this, when they get the chance.

[Kid Berwyn]

10. It's how Grandaddy Daddy Koch got rich.

Did huge business with Stalin.

[sop]

11. Not surprising, given the long and sordid history of the Kochs' dealings with brutal authoritarians.

Fred Koch began doing business with the Nazis in Germany, then with Stalin after the war till he became disenchanted with Communism. Koch founded the John Birch Society in 1958 as the policy center for American arch conservatism, inspiring neo-conservative politics as well as the recent Tea Party movement. Charles Koch followed his father into the John Birch Society where he held a lifetime membership, funded the JBS' promotional campaigns, bought advertising in its magazine, and supported right-wing radio shows.

The John Birch Society's "American Opinion Bookstores" were full of material opposing the civil rights movement. The JBS opposed the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming the movement was created as a forty-year front for the communists, and put up billboards calling Martin Luther King a communist. Birchers even ran ads in Dallas in 1963 with President John F. Kennedy's head with the word "Treason" below just before his assassination.

[DURHAM D]

12. Don't forget..

Pompeo is their hometown hand-picked operative.