Koch Industries continues doing business in Russia

[TexasTowelie]

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."

"Guardian is bullish on Russia given the excellent growth at our first plant in Ryazan and the customers we have in the country. The timing is right for the region and for Guardian," the company said in 2011, shortly before the Rostov plant opened.

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[OnDoutside]

1. Biden owes them nothing, he should hammer the hell out of them.

[SheltieLover]

3. This!👆

[niyad]

2. Does that glass have any viable mlitary use?

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Well, of course they do

They are our American oligarchy. They will do what they want, when they want to do it. Just try and stop them. Murdoch is the same way.

Besides, they got their inheritance from a father who did business with Hitler and Stalin. So they see no problem with working with America's enemies. It kind of runs in the family.

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. Your final paragraph says it all.

That family was also deeply involved in the creation of the John Birch Society long ago.

[crickets]

8. May it cost them bigly. nt

[doc03]

5. Koch suckers. nt

[lagomorph777]

7. And Fossil Fool Koch Suckers in the GOP (and SineManchin) will enable them.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. Wasn't the Koch's father working with Stalin's regime too? Their father has a Trump similarity.

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Predecessor companies

In 1925, Fred C. Koch joined MIT classmate Lewis E. Winkler at an engineering firm in Wichita, Kansas, which was renamed the Winkler-Koch Engineering Company. In 1927, they developed a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline. This process threatened the competitive advantage of established oil companies, which sued for patent infringement.[20] Temporarily forced out of business in the United States, they turned to other markets, including the Soviet Union, where Winkler-Koch built 15 cracking units between 1929 and 1932. During this time, Koch came to despise communism and Joseph Stalin's regime.[20][21] In his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch wrote that he found the USSR to be "a land of hunger, misery, and terror".[22] According to Charles Koch, "Virtually every engineer he worked with [there] was purged."[20]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries

Sounds like Koch started to change his tune as the The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) kicked in.

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[BlueIdaho]

10. The only thing they understand is money

Find ways to taking money away from them and their hearts and minds may follow.