Ajinomoto Heartland Inc

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• Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc. is one of five companies affiliated with the Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Group, a global leader in feed-grade amino acid manufacturing. Representing Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition in North America, Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc. manufactures and distributes cost effective feed-grade amino acids and is the frontrunner in amino acid nutritional research and technical expertise. The Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Group supplies 20% of the worlds lysine and 35% of the worlds threonine. Founded in 1984 as Heartland Lysine, Inc. a joint venture between Ajinomoto Co., Inc. and Les Produits Organiques du Santerre, S.A. (Orsan) to produce feed-grade lysine, the company began production at its Eddyville facility in 1986 with 66 employees and an initial investment of $30 million. Heartland Lysine became Ajinomoto Heartland, LLC during a corporate restructuring in 1990 and became Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc. with the establishment of Ajinomoto Groups North America Division in 2011. The Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc. Eddyville facility has continually expanded its lysine production capacity as well as its product portfolio, adding threonine production in 2002 and AjiPro®-L Rumen Protected Lysine in 2011. Recently, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. announced that the Eddyville plant will begin manufacturing feed-grade tryptophan in 2017, through the introduction of new fermentation production technology, becoming the first feed-grade tryptophan producer in North America. Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc. has 37 employees in Chicago and 128 staff members in Eddyville, Iowa, with plans to increase the number of employees to meet new production needs.
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  Headquarters:8430 West Bryn Mawr Suite 650, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 773-380-7000

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  Website: https://www.lysine.com

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  Employees:39

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  Revenue:$10 - 50M

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  Legal Name:Ajinomoto Heartland Inc

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• |  NAICS Code: 339999  |

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