September 4, 2012

CJ Cheil Jedang Corp announces that its new amino acid processing facility in Shenyang, China, will commence operations in September.

Costing about US$400 million, CJ's Chinese plant is capable of processing about 100,000 tonnes of lysine, 50,000 tonnes of threonine and 3,000 tonnes of nucleic acid per year, the company said.

CJ Cheil Jedang claims that once the Shenyang plant is on track, it will obtain a production capacity of 600,000 tonnes of lysine, topping its rival feed companies such as China-based GBT, Japan-based Ajinomoto Co. and US-based ADM.

The Korean firm expects to hold 30% of the global feed market next year after the company's lysine-processing plant in Iowa is completed, surpassing its rivals in processing lysine at 700,000 tonnes annually.

Having established its first overseas biotechnology plant in Pasuruan, Indonesia, in 1991, it opened three additional plants in Jombang in Indonesia, Liaocheng in China and Piracicaba in Brazil to produce nucleic acid, lysine and tryptophan.

The company plans to finish constructing another green biotech plant in Terengganu, Malaysia, to produce over 80,000 tonnes of methionine annually.