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Wood River Oil and Refining Company was renamed Koch Industries in 1968 in honor of Fred Koch, the year after his death. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] At that time, it was primarily an engineering firm with a 35% interest in Great Northern Oil Company, which owned the Pine Bend Refinery in Minnesota, a crude oil-gathering system in Oklahoma, [ 16 ] and some ...
The company was given the trademarked name INVISTA and was then sold to privately owned Koch Industries on April 30, 2004 for US$4.2 billion. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Koch Industries combined the newly acquired organization with their KoSa subsidiary to complete the INVISTA company.
The Minnesota Pipe Line (or MPL) is a crude oil pipeline that runs from Clearbrook, Minnesota southward to the Twin Cities. [1] Construction began in 2007 after the State of Minnesota approved the building permit, [2] and ended in 2008; it is owned by Minnesota Pipe Line Company, LLC (MPL) and is operated by Koch Pipeline Company, a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Koch Industries.
OCI Global, the Dutch parent of Iowa Fertilizer Co., said Monday it sold 100% equity interest of the Wever plant to Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, a Koch Industries company, for $3.6 billion.
Following another expansion strategy, the company started producing complex, three-dimensional electronic components for medical applications in 2011. [13] In September 2013, Koch Industries purchased Molex for $7.2 billion. [14] Koch indicated Molex will retain its company name and headquarters in Lisle, Illinois, and be run as a subsidiary ...
The Koch family (/ k oʊ k / KOHK) is an American family engaged in business, best known for their political activities and their control of Koch Industries, the 2nd largest privately owned company in the United States (with 2019 revenues of $115 billion). [1]
Koch worked in his family's company. He and his eldest brother Frederick R. Koch had inherited Koch Industries stock. In 1980, after an unsuccessful attempt to take over the company from Charles, William was fired from the company. [5] In 1983 the stock netted them $800 million in a sale to their brothers, Charles and David. [6]
Leonard traces the history of Koch Industries from a regional pipeline company to a sprawling corporate entity with "a political-influence machine of rare scope". [1] The first part of is devoted to the history of Koch Industries, beginning with Charles Koch's assumption of leadership after the death of his father Fred in 1967. It traces the ...