Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc.

Food and Beverage ManufacturingIllinois, United States51-200 Employees

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 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. 

We are pleased to announce that effective April 1, 2018, Ajinomoto Heartland, Inc. has changed its name to Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc.

This change reflects our global presence as part of the Ajinomoto Group. Our organizational structure will not change. Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc. will continue to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Group, Inc. Ajinomoto Co., Inc. is the sole shareholder of Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Group, Inc.

The Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, 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.

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