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Agriculture

Sumitomo to close a methionine plant

by Michael McCoy
October 12, 2019 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 97, Issue 40

 

The structure of methionine.

Sumitomo Chemical will close an older facility at its site in Ehime, Japan, that makes the amino acid methionine, used in pig and poultry feed. The closure comes a year after the firm opened a new, 100,000-metric-ton-per-year methionine facility at the site. Other firms, including Evonik Industries and Novus International, are also adding methionine capacity. Sumitomo says global methionine demand is growing by 6%, or about 80,000 t, annually.

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