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Dean’s idea is estimated to save his facility about $65,000 a year. All because he wanted to make a difference, wasn’t afraid to share his ideas and was part of a team that valued his personal knowledge.
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Sometimes, the career path you’re on doesn’t allow you to achieve your full potential. At Koch, reaching out to your supervisor can help you better understand where you are and where you want to be.
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For the fourth year in a row, and fifth time overall, Koch Industries (“Koch”) was recognized as an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2024 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year for Energy Management, as well as its third consecutive year in the Sustained Excellence category.
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recently participated in a $700 million debt and equity financing round for Hybar, a newly formed company that plans to build, start up and operate a technologically advanced and energy-efficient scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill in Arkansas.
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Listen to Derly's story above and hear the details about how the Koch Accounting Apprenticeship Program helped remove barriers and provide an opportunity to find and develop his talents and skills.
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Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) has led a $32 million Series C round in Silo, the leading provider of modern technology solutions for the supply chain.
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The Military Friendly designation is important to Buckley because it recognizes the Market-Based Management (MBM) philosophy that guides Koch culture is in direct alignment with the values soldiers exemplify in the service.
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If you take a walk around the wetland at the Victoria, Texas INVISTA facility, you’ll see and hear all kinds of birds, reptiles and, during the school year, children laughing and learning.
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Year Up helped me gain confidence in myself and my abilities. At Georgia-Pacific, a Koch company, my personal growth was accelerated by a culture and vision that promotes lifelong learning, identifying your interests and talents and pursuing them, as well as challenging yourself.
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Ricci Seguban prioritizes making a difference. It’s something she strives for every day as a process safety engineer at the Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend refinery — and why she volunteers with the ZOOMS STEM Design Challenge, an annual program for kids at the Minnesota Zoo.
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Robert was introduced to VR training when he was a spinning technician trainer for Koch subsidiary INVISTA, one of the world’s major nylon producers.
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Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) is leading a $30 million Series B funding round into Oshi Health, the virtual specialty care company transforming gastrointestinal (GI) health outcomes and economics.
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Koch Disruptive Technologies co-led an $8 million seed round into Neura Health, a virtual neurology clinic connecting patients with the top specialists in headache medicine.
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This summer, Georgia-Pacific will produce its one billionth EarthKraft™ recyclable padded mailer. It’s a huge milestone for a product line that’s only been in existence since 2020.
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There’s nothing quite like the sticking power of hands-on education – even when “hands-on” means sifting through fistfuls of red worms and composting material.
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I love working for a company that values growth and opportunities for each individual. Like many at Georgia-Pacific and across Koch Industries, my career has taken a path I wouldn’t have expected when I first joined the company. But it has been the right one for me.
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Koch Minerals & Trading, a diverse global trading, logistics and investment company, is making a $252 million investment in Compass Minerals to support phase-one development of the company’s Great Salt Lake resource.
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Faced with a growing list of challenges, a young Juan Perez decided to transform his life and find a job that could provide him and his young family a better future. He found that job at Koch. It's a decision that changed him and his family in ways he never imagined.
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Koch Industries, Inc. (“Koch”) has earned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award for 2023.
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Charles Koch and Chase Koch share advice, such as how to continuously develop your gifts and find meaning in your work, at the annual Koch Intern Q&A
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There’s nothing wrong with mapping out a career so that you always know what the next steps are. The problem is there’s nothing much right with it either.
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Innovate or get left in the dust. That’s the kind of thinking that brought together Percepto, the leading autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, and Koch Engineered Solutions into a new collaborative venture.
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Koch Industries is a longstanding supporter of education, most recently supporting the Phillips Fundamental Learning Center in Wichita to reach and train more teachers with proven, research-based programs for teaching kids to read, write and spell.
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Koch has been selected as “Wichita’s Best Place to Work” in 2022 in a new survey of employees and community members. The company employs more than 3,300 people in the Wichita area.
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Reinvesting back into its business helps Georgia-Pacific create long-term value by increasing production, lowering costs and improving reliability.
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A team at Georgia-Pacific developed a new waste erosion and recovery technology that decreases the amount of solid waste destined for landfills or incinerators, transforming multiple waste streams into valuable commodities.
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In 2021, Georgia-Pacific’s Brewton Containerboard mill in Brewton, Alabama, became the first U.S. paper mill to earn ENERGY STAR® certification by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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In today’s competitive business environment, everyone is trying to attract and retain the right employees.
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Transformation: Why Flint Hills Resources' Pine Bend Refinery Is Looking to Solar Mon, 09/19/2022 - 12:25 Type of Content Blog Layout Featured Media Body Flint Hills Resources is building the largest single user solar project in the United States at its Pine Bend refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota. That might seem unexpected at a facility that provides much of the Upper Midwest’s gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, but for company officials focused on making the facility as efficient as possible, the 4
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KOCH INVESTS: Building a Conflict-Free Electric Vehicle 'Super Cell' Koch Invests" over rows of electronic components" typeof="foaf:Image" />Wed, 09/21/2022 - 10:45 Type of Content Article Layout Featured Media Body Koch Strategic Platforms is leading a $90 million Series D investment round in Wildcat Discovery Technologies, a company using its own high throughput methods to rapidly develop new battery materials – all in pursuit of a “super cell” for electric vehicles (EV), combining three em
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KOCH INVESTS: Smarter Supply Chains With Arkestro Fri, 09/16/2022 - 10:45 Type of Content Article Layout Featured Media Body Koch Disruptive Technologies is co-leading a $26 million Series A funding round in Arkestro. Through its predictive procurement orchestration platform, Arkestro automatically and intelligently helps customers save on costs while improving supply chain performance. HOW IT WORKS: Arkestro engages a proprietary blend of behavioral science, game theory and machine learning to
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'Invisibles' Making Koch Manufacturing Facilities 'Smarter' Thu, 09/15/2022 - 11:45 Subheader This simple-looking piece of tape from Trackonomy can make anything “smart” Type of Content Blog Layout Media Gallery Body On the surface, the small piece of tape looks like a simple adhesive strip, but it’s actually an Internet of Things-enabled device with a critical job – monitoring precious cargo and machinery. The innovation blurs the line between software, logistics and manufacturing with a produc
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Every day, thousands of tourists flock to see Leonardo da Vinci’s \"Mona Lisa\" inside the Louvre Museum in Paris to catch a glimpse, or take a selfie with one of the world’s most famous paintings.
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Koch Disruptive Technologies is leading a $25 million Series A funding round in NeuraLight, an AI-driven company developing objective and sensitive biomarkers for neurological disorders, including ALS, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and
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THE PICTURE: Koch Employees Start Nonprofit to Help Student Entrepreneurs Mon, 06/20/2022 - 10:05 Type of Content Article Layout Featured Media Body As another school year ends, many high school and college students will transition to summer jobs. Student Startup, a nonprofit organization in Wichita, Kansas, is preparing young scholars to launch their own businesses. Joe Woodward and Abe Rodriguez co-founded Student Startup after learning about Principled Entrepreneurship™ as employees at Koch I
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THE PICTURE: A Closer Look at How Koch Hires Thu, 06/16/2022 - 11:35 Type of Content Blog Layout Media Gallery Body When Cara Chennault-Reid flew in for her first job interview at Koch Industries’ corporate headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, she didn’t know exactly which job she was applying for, which company it was with or even where the role was based. But she was intrigued by the company and its management philosophy. At the time, Koch was looking for strong human resources leads, so Cara prep
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As Esther photocopied giant engineering drawings, it didn't occur to her that one day she might work full time at the facility. But today, Esther is one of the leaders who run Koch companies' manufacturing facilities.
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Josh Zaagsma was never sure about what career path he wanted to take. He worked as a science teacher, academic researcher, mechanic and electronics technician before starting a degree in mechanical engineering.
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Koch companies Flint Hills Resources and DEPCOM Power will build what is believed to be the largest solar installation of its kind in the United States. The solar energy generated will help power Flint Hills' Pine Bend refinery.
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Koch Strategic Platforms is investing $30 million in Blue Current, a manufacturer of advanced solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, consumer electronics, grid storage and more.
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At the Koch Methanol plant on the banks of the Mississippi River, Marc Hoss was keeping a wary eye on Hurricane Ida as it lashed the Caribbean last August.
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One in three Americans has a criminal record. Helping those individuals contribute valuably to society again by removing unnecessary barriers to employment is beneficial for the individual, the business and society.
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Koch Industries, Inc. (“Koch”) today announced that it has earned the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Award for 2022.
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When Anne Lee tells people she works at Flint Hill Resources’ Pine Bend refinery off Interstate 52 in Rosemount, Minnesota, they’re always curious about what it’s like on campus.
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With each step higher, the air became colder and thinner for Rajani Bhakta, an IT product manager with Koch company Flint Hills Resources, as she worked her way up the side of Mount Rainier in 2015.
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The first thing you hear after sitting down at a replica lunch counter and putting on your headphones is just above a whisper.
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DEPCOM’s full-service solar power solutions will be central to Koch Industries’ development of renewable electric generation platform
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Byron Knight explores the 'tremendous opportunity' to invest in new supply chain innovations
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“Helping our employees transform and using fewer resources – those are fundamental to any plant of the future,” he says.
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When Lynn Penny, vice president of human resources with Koch Global Services, started working for Koch more than two decades ago, she never could have anticipated where her career would take her.