Kemin has appointed Michael Zheng as business director for the China food technologies division of Kemin Industries. 

In his new role, Zheng will provide leadership to the sales team as well as oversee other functional areas of the food technologies business in China.

Zheng has held key positions with several companies in the food industry, most recently at DSM where he served as business manager for soy peptides in the Asia Pacific. He holds a Food Science degree from Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, and is working to attain his Masters of Business Administration at Fudan University, Shanghai, China which he will complete in June 2010.

The Kemin group of companies provides health and nutritional solutions to the agrifood, food ingredients, pet food, human health and pharmaceutical industries. Kemin operates in more than 60 countries with manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and the US.

Kemin Food Technologies provides market-driven solutions for the food industry's challenges.