Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc.

About Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc.

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 world’s lysine and 35% of the world’s 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 Group’s 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.

Website	http://www.lysine.com
Employees	1-10 employees View all Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc. employees
Industry	Food Production
Location	8430 W. Bryn Mawr,Chicago,Illinois,US
Founded	1984
Keywords	Feed-Grade Amino Acid Production