The agriculture major will continue to expand its animal nutrition supply chain in China with a new feed-premix facility in Hunan province, and the addition of aquaculture feed production lines at an existing complex in Jiangsu Province.
Brent Fenton, president of ADM’s animal nutrition division, said the company was focusing on areas of growing demand as part of its expansion strategy.
“Population growth and higher disposable incomes are continuing to support increased animal protein—and thus animal feed—demand in China,” Fenton said.
The Hunan facility brings to five the number of ADM’s animal-feed plants in the country, and will help supply growing demand from Hunan, Hebei and Guangxi provinces in central China.
Employing around 120 people, the Xiangtan plant will have an annual capacity for 120,000 tonnes annually of premix, concentrate, animal-complete, and fish-complete feeds.
The four additional aquaculture lines in Nanjing will be able to produce 50,000 tonnes of extruded and pelleted feeds during the aquaculture season, which runs from April to September.
ADM is targeting completion of both projects in early 2019. Their opening will follow that of another new premix plant, in the southern Fujian province, which is expected to be complete by summer 2017.