WICHITA, Kan., May 6, 2022 /CSRwire/ – 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. This is the second consecutive year Koch has earned this award, moving the company into ENERGY STAR’s Sustained Excellence category. ENERGY STAR award winners lead their industries in the production, sale, and adoption of energy-efficient products, homes, buildings, services, and strategies; it is the highest honor bestowed by the EPA.

Koch companies work to use fewer resources while creating life-sustaining essentials and everyday products that help people improve their lives. Since joining the ENERGY STAR program in 2015, Koch has maintained a high level of performance, improving energy efficiency in its businesses. As a result of Koch’s efforts to achieve best-in-class energy management program and practices, Koch received six plant certifications as first-quartile energy-efficient in the pulp and paper, refining, and fertilizer industries. 

“Koch’s recognition as ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for 2022, our second consecutive year earning this award, underscores our employees’ commitment to stewardship in action,” said Sheryl Corrigan, director of environmental, health and safety at Koch Industries. “We are humbled to enter ENERGY STAR’s Sustained Excellence category, and we’re excited to continue growing our energy capability in partnership with EPA. It’s very much in line with the innovative work our Koch companies are doing in promoting and improving energy efficiency through new investments, technologies, processes, and collaboration.”

 
WICHITA, Kan. – 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. This is the second consecutive year Koch has earned this award, moving the company into ENERGY STAR’s Sustained Excellence category. ENERGY STAR award winners lead their industries in the production, sale, and adoption of energy-efficient products, homes, buildings, services, and strategies; it is the highest honor bestowed by the EPA.

Koch companies work to use fewer resources while creating life-sustaining essentials and everyday products that help people improve their lives. Since joining the ENERGY STAR program in 2015, Koch has maintained a high level of performance, improving energy efficiency in its businesses. As a result of Koch’s efforts to achieve best-in-class energy management program and practices, Koch received six plant certifications as first-quartile energy-efficient in the pulp and paper, refining, and fertilizer industries. 

“Koch’s recognition as ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for 2022, our second consecutive year earning this award, underscores our employees’ commitment to stewardship in action,” said Sheryl Corrigan, director of environmental, health and safety at Koch Industries. “We are humbled to enter ENERGY STAR’s Sustained Excellence category, and we’re excited to continue growing our energy capability in partnership with EPA. It’s very much in line with the innovative work our Koch companies are doing in promoting and improving energy efficiency through new investments, technologies, processes, and collaboration.”

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The ENERGY STAR award comes as Koch companies work toward even greater energy management and efficiency practices. While its businesses have grown, Koch has experienced a 58% reduction in production-related waste since 2012—a total of 571 million pounds—according to EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory Report. Of the waste produced and reported to EPA at Koch facilities in 2020, 91% was recycled, recovered for energy, or treated—a total of 372 million pounds.

As one of the largest United States manufacturers and ENERGY STAR partners, Koch facilities have successfully reduced energy consumption and associated emissions – not only compared to domestic competitors measured by ENERGY STAR but also compared to facilities that less efficiently manufacture imported products. In addition to its ENERGY STAR partnership, Koch has grown and advanced its supply chain business to be one of the most efficient in the U.S., repeatedly earning recognition from the EPA’s SmartWay program.

Since 2011, Koch has invested billions in energy efficiency projects across its more than 300 U.S.-based facilities and has implemented more than 1,500 energy efficiency projects and initiatives. One example is Koch company Georgia-Pacific’s Brewton, Alabama, paper mill, which recently made nearly $500 million in capital investments to improve operations and energy efficiency. The Brewton mill then participated in an ENERGY STAR “Challenge for Industry,” quickly achieving its goals in only one year before earning plant certification as the first ever integrated paper mill. Brewton is just one example of the investments and innovations happening across the Koch enterprise, which include significant investments in electric battery and energy storage technology, and in renewable energy, such as the acquisition of solar energy leader DEPCOM Power.

For more information of Koch’s stewardship work, please visit: www.KOCHind.com/Stewardship. To read about Koch’s stewardship from Sheryl Corrigan, director of environmental, health and safety at Koch, please visit: experience.KOCHind.com/Stewardship.

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About Koch Industries, Inc.

Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America, with estimated annual revenues that have exceeded $125 billion. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in industrial manufacturing, agriculture, building materials, glass, automotive components, refining, renewable energy, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, packaging, consumer products, electronics, enterprise software, data analytics, medical products, engineered technology, project services, recycling, supply chain and logistics, global commodities trading, and investments. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested nearly $150 billion in growth and improvements. With a presence in more than 70 countries, Koch companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about half of those in the United States. For more news and information, visit www.KOCHind.com.

Koch Industries

Koch Industries

Creating value. Transforming life.

Our life’s work is to help people improve their lives by making and innovating products and services our customers value. Our focus is on delivering mutual benefit: Win-win outcomes that make life better for customers and employees alike.

Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in America. A diverse set of businesses and industries across the world, we work together to keep improving and exploring new ways to make life even better.

Koch companies are involved in manufacturing, agriculture, pulp and paper, packaging, consumer products, building materials, glass, automotive components, refining, renewable energy, chemicals and polymers, electronics, enterprise software, data analytics, medical products, engineered technology, project services, recycling, supply chain and logistics, global commodities trading, and investments. Since 2003, Koch companies have invested more than $150 billion in growth and improvements. With a presence in about 60 countries, Koch companies employ more than 120,000 people worldwide, with about half of those in the United States.

Stewardship in all we do.

Our approach to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) is different than most. We believe in people and seek a system of equal rights and mutual benefit where individuals succeed by helping others succeed – and where people are empowered to improve their lives and their communities. It’s why we focus on empowering individuals to improve their lives and communities through bottom-up solutions rather than top-down imperatives.

Environmental Stewardship

Consuming fewer resources, minimizing waste and constantly innovating to improve our manufacturing processes and performance is essential to the way we do business – benefiting our customers, employees, investors, communities and planet.

Five environmental stewardship priorities.

With more than 300 manufacturing sites across the United States – and about 100 more globally – we’re one of America’s largest manufacturers. Every day, across those sites, we strive to create more value, using fewer resources than the day before. We do it through constant improvement and innovation – both in the products we make and how we make them, and by managing our resources in a way that benefits our customers, employees, partners, community members and society.

• Innovation
• Energy Efficiency
• Air Quality
• Water
• Responsible Resource Management

Social Stewardship

Philanthropy. Health and safety. Diversity and inclusion. Meaningful, rewarding careers and community outreach. These are just some of the vital priorities of social stewardship that empower each of our employees to develop, contribute, self-actualize and create value for the world while supporting communities in which we live.

Governance

Our management framework, Principle Based Management™, is based on proven principles of human progress and a deep appreciation for the dignity of every individual. Our private ownership, shared Vision, Values, compliance standards and oversight all help us focus on long-term value creation.

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