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Transforming Teamwork: How a Culture Change Reenergized Georgia-Pacific’s Brewton Mill

Georgia-Pacific’s facility in Brewton, Alabama, was struggling to financially break even. The team disrupted how they interacted together by applying principles of knowledge sharing and collaboration. The result – Brewton is now the company’s most competitive containerboard mill. Watch Trae and Waymon’s story, one of many examples contributing to the site’s success.

Koch Industries Announces Leadership Changes

WICHITA, Kan. – Koch Industries, Inc. today announced important leadership changes focused on ensuring that the company will continue to succeed well into the future. Dave Robertson will join Charles Koch as co-chief executive officer of Koch Industries and was elected vice chairman of the board. Koch will continue as chairman. Jim Hannan will succeed Mr. Robertson as president and chief operating officer. Hannan was previously executive vice president and CEO – Enterprises. Richard Dinkel has been elected to the Koch Industries board and he and Chase Koch have been named executive vice presidents. Both will remain in their current roles, Koch as CEO of Koch Disruptive Technologies and Dinkel as CFO of Koch Industries, but with additional responsibilities. In addition, there were two other officer changes. Ray Geoffroy and Mark Luetters have become senior vice presidents, with Geoffroy continuing as general counsel of Koch Industries, and Luetters as president of Koch Ag & Energy Solutions and Koch Minerals & Trading. “My role and responsibilities will continue as they have been. I believe altogether these changes will improve our ability to continually transform for the benefit of our company, our employees, our customers and people throughout society,” said Charles Koch, chairman and co-CEO of Koch Industries.

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Guardian Glass DeWitt plant earns EPA’s ENERGY STAR® certification for superior energy efficiency

The Guardian Glass float glass plant in DeWitt, Iowa has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR certification, which signifies that the industrial plant performs in the top 25 percent of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and meets strict energy efficiency performance levels set by the EPA. "Guardian Glass is pleased to accept EPA’s ENERGY STAR certification in recognition of our energy efficiency efforts,” says Adam Gravert, DeWitt Plant Manager, Guardian Glass. "I’m very proud of the DeWitt team’s hard work to demonstrate our commitment to environmental stewardship and to the community, while also lowering our energy costs and delivering value to our customers.” Earning ENERGY STAR certification highlights Guardian DeWitt’s status in the top 25 percent of flat glass plants in the nation with regard to energy performance. Guardian Glass improved its energy performance by managing energy strategically across the entire organization and by making cost-effective improvements to its plant. “Commercial buildings and industrial plants account for nearly half of the nation’s energy,” says Jean Lupinacci, Chief of the ENERGY STAR Commercial & Industrial Branch. “But through benchmarking performance and a strategic approach to energy management, it is possible for companies to save energy, save money, and protect the environment.” Operating since 1996, the DeWitt plant completed a major capital project in 2017 that expanded glass production and added new environmental control technologies. The plant applied for certification based on 2019 data. Guardian Glass is a major business unit of Guardian Industries, which is owned by Koch Industries, Inc. (KII). This Certification aligns with Koch’s philosophy of “being the operator of choice in the community”. Earning ENERGY STAR Plant Certification is one way to give the DeWitt community a reason to choose to have the Guardian float glass plant operate in its community. Dewitt joins four other Koch facilities in diverse industries that have earned ENERGY STAR certification in the past 12 months. KII was awarded the prestigious ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award in 2017. ENERGY STAR was introduced by EPA in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. To date, tens of thousands of buildings and plants across all fifty states have earned the ENERGY STAR. For more information about ENERGY STAR Certification for Industrial Facilities, visit energystar.gov/plants .

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Koch Industries Recognized as 2024 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for Energy Management

WICHITA, Kan. - 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. The award demonstrates Koch employees' longstanding commitment to stewardship. In earning the recognition, Koch companies had five facilities identified as Certified Plants, two tapped as completing Top Projects, and one achieved Challenge for Industry status.

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Koch Partners with Sema4.ai to Transform Enterprise Operations with Intelligent AI Agents

Koch is partnering with Sema4.ai, a Koch Disruptive Technologies portfolio company, to implement companywide level agentic artificial intelligence designed to automate complex tasks, streamline operations and deliver mutual benefit across both organizations. Why it matters: Manual reconciliation and business processes are traditionally time-consuming, error-prone and resource-intensive. Sema4.ai’s enterprise AI agents seamlessly integrate into existing processes and automate entire workflows — reducing costs and strengthening controls. “AI agents are changing how we think about our work in all phases — people, process, technology — shifting time and effort away from manual and repetitive tasks to more fulfilling and meaningful work,” said Brett Wittorff, senior trade analyst manager at Koch Ag & Energy Solution. “Sema4 agents are setting the bar higher and enabling new ways our teams can impact business outcomes.” How it works: Sema4 AI agents are capable of understanding business context, reasoning and collaborating with human teams to increase productivity without the need for individual prompts or instructions. In one use case, the agents will parse invoices for a Koch company by processing hundreds of pages, line by line. Using the deep understanding it has gained from the review, it can then integrate with existing enterprise financial data to complete the reconciliation process. The big picture: The collaboration with Koch will also extend to other critical business operations, including work order creation, manufacturing sensor tag creation, maintenance scheduling, procurement analysis and document understanding. The mutually beneficial collaboration between the two companies will provide Koch with a mature, proven AI solution that enhances and streamlines operations, and Sema4.ai with a hands-on opportunity to deploy and refine its AI agents in a large enterprise environment. Read the full press release to learn more.