Koch Industries

Koch Industries is a private company engaged in the diverse industries of petroleum refining, chemicals, forest and consumer products, fertilizers, polymers and fibers, process and pollution control equipment and technologies, electronic components, commodity trading, minerals, energy, glass, and investments. The company supported ENERGY STAR® partners and industries by sharing best energy management practices and promoting plant benchmarking using ENERGY STAR tools within its industrial sectors. Key 2023 accomplishments include:

• Investing across its businesses in technologies and practices that improve energy consumption: with glass, natural gas consumption declined due to increased glass recycling and new furnace controls; with fertilizer, steam trap monitoring improved energy intensity; and, with refining, waste heat recovery, combined heat and power upgrades, and steam system improvements enabled one refinery to attain top performance.
• Certifying three fertilizer plants, one oil refinery, and two pulp and paper mills with the ENERGY STAR.
• Releasing a detailed news story on the company’s successful energy projects within its oil refining and pulp and paper businesses. The company reported on a ceramic insulation spray that improved efficiency and reduced corrosion and earned a Top Project recognition at the Annual ENERGY STAR Industrial Meeting.
• Advancing energy management in its light industry holdings by completing plant energy audits at 10 facilities worldwide and conducting energy efficiency training that is open to all manufacturing plants.
• Supporting ENERGY STAR in its upgrade of the ENERGY STAR flat glass plant energy performance indicator.