Koch Industries, Inc. engages in trading, operations, and investment in the United States and internationally. It provides energy to heat and cool buildings; produces and markets fibers, intermediates, and polymers and resins; manufactures and markets tissues, packaging products, paper products, building products, and related chemicals, as well as fluff, filter, and market pulp; and supplies mass-transfer and mist-elimination equipment and process technologies. The company also trades and transports petroleum coke, coal, cement, sulfur, salt, and other related commodities through a network of company owned or operated import/export terminals in the United States, Europe, and Venezuela; markets beef; and engages in businesses, including apparel, intermediates, performance surfaces and materials, and polymer and resins. It has refineries in Alaska, Minnesota, and Texas; a plant in Blue Rapids that manufactures gypsum interior and exterior sheathing and plaster; a warehouse in Newton; and facilities in Dodge City to produce ammonia and UAN. It has a presence in trading, petroleum, chemicals, energy, fibers and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, forest and consumer products, chemical technology equipment, ranching, and securities and finances, as well as in other investment industries. The company has locations in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chili, China, Colombia, the Check Republic, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxemburg, Mexico, New Zealand, The Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Koch Industries was founded in 1940 as Wood River Oil and Refining Company and changed its name to Rock Island Oil & Refining in 1959. The name was further changed to Koch Industries, Inc. in 1967. Koch Industries, Inc. is headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.