Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc

Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, 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 Animal Nutrition North America, 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 Ajinomot...