Koch Industries is a group of companies engaged in a variety of industries such as pulp and paper, petroleum, chemicals and fertilizers, fibers, intermediates and polymers, and trading in minerals, energy, and other commodities, as well as securities and financial instruments. It produces transportation fuels, petrochemicals, ethanol, asphalts, base oils, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, biodiesel, and heating oils; operates pipelines that transport crude oil, refined petroleum products, ethanol, natural gas liquids, and chemicals; and manufactures building and consumer products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose, and chemicals.