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Novus Buys Dow Plant For Animal Nutrition

by Marc S. Reisch
November 9, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 44

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Methionine is added to chicken diets to promote leg quality and gut health.
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Methionine is added to chicken diets to promote leg quality and gut health.

Novus International, a joint venture of Japan’s Mitsui & Co. and Nippon Soda, has acquired Dow Chemical’s St. Charles Parish, La., methylmercaptopropanal plant. The acquisition secures a key intermediate Novus uses to make its Alimet brand methionine, an amino acid for poultry, swine, and cattle diets. Novus produces methionine in Chocolate Bayou, Texas, and plans to build a second plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast by 2020.

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