Kemin Industries announced March 25 the expansion of its manufacturing facility in India, located in the SIPCOT industrial estate, which will allow Kemin to better serve the increasing demand for specialized nutritional ingredients that address the region's rapidly growing animal protein industry.

"South Asia plays a very important role in the global animal feed market, producing more than 35 million tons of compound feed. Due to rapid economic growth in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, the overall demand for animal protein is increasing in the region," Kemin Industries president and chief executive officer Dr. Chris Nelson said. "For this reason, we decided to invest and grow the capacity at our existing Gummidipundi plant near Chennai. Kemin is always seeking opportunities to better meet our customers' needs regionally and provide high-quality products and solutions."

The state-of-the-art facility is one of the most sophisticated plants in the global Kemin portfolio to produce metal propionate trace minerals, the company said in its announcement. The new facility's "Integrated Organic Mineral Production System" ensures efficacious organic trace minerals in different combinations for animals.

According to Kemin, the production facility for liquid products is also significantly improved in the new facility, which has received new certifications and endorsements to better serve Kemin Food Technologies customers in Asia.

The new food and manufacturing certifications for the Kemin Food Technologies — Asia business unit include the following:

"For more than 20 years, Kemin has established a strong footprint in South Asia feed production," said GS Ramesh, group president, Kemin Animal Nutrition & Health. "As the demand for meat production increases in South Asia, the need for our value-added products is also growing tremendously. The additional capacity in Gummidipundi will equip us to meet the ever-increasing demand for Kemin's high-quality feed ingredients. As we begin outputting new products at this facility, we aim to work closely with our customers for the collective purpose of improving animal production efficiency."

With regional headquarters in Chennai, Kemin has been serving the animal protein industry in South Asia since 1998. The current headquarters includes a full-fledged manufacturing facility, quality control labs, research and development farms and a small pellet feed mill.

"We are excited to bring new technologies into our production facility so we can provide customers the maximum benefits of our products," said Dr. R Sureshkumar, president, Kemin Animal Nutrition & Health — South Asia.

Kemin Industries is a global ingredient manufacturer that makes more than 500 specialty ingredients for the human and animal health, aquaculture, pet food, nutraceutical, food technology, crop technology and textile industries.

Established in 1961, Kemin is a privately held, family-owned and -operated company with more than 2,800 global employees and operations in 90 countries, including manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Russia, San Marino, Singapore, South Africa and the U.S.

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