Animal Nutrition & Health

dsm-firmenich North America Premix Plants: Committed to the Highest Level of Standards & Quality Premix Products for Animal Nutrition & Health

dsm-firmenich is a global leader in vitamins and is the largest supplier of basic vitamins in the world with a global network of over 40 vitamin premix plants. Our premixes are customized blends of functional ingredients – vitamins, minerals, amino acids, nucleotides, nutraceuticals, prebiotics, fibers, phytogenics and more – delivered to you in a single, homogenous compound. 

In North America, there are four dsm-firmenich premix plants that focus on the production of animal feed premixes including poultry, swine, dairy and beef cattle, aquaculture, and pets. These facilities are committed to ensure quality premix products for our customers with the highest level of standards (including GMP, HAACP, ISO 9001, and dsm-firmenich corporate quality) and they continuously strive to be the most trusted source of nutritional ingredients for your animal feed.

Ames, Iowa

The Ames plant was first opened in Ames in 1965 and was originally a Ray Ewing plant, then purchased by Hoffmann La Roche and sold to dsm-firmenich in 2003. The Ames plant is 46,000 square feet and runs three shifts, 24 hours a day, five days a week. We currently have 34 employees. The sales territory of this plant covers the continental United States. A large portion of our production output is sold to customers in Iowa. This plant produces vitamins & mineral premixes and vitamin concentrations.

In this short video, you'll take a tour of the Ames plant, meet their people and learn why dsm-firmenich is a global vitamin and premix leader in animal health and nutrition.

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Ayr, Ontario

The original Ayr facility was first opened in 1980 and has had additions in 1994 and 1997. The plant is 20,000 square feet and runs two shifts, four days a week. We currently have 12 full-time employees and is also the home of the ANH NA Customer Service and Nutritional Services teams. This site focuses on vitamins & mineral premixes and vitamin concentrations. Production covers Canada and the Northeast of the United States for regular production, and the entire US for Water Soluble production.

Take a first-hand look inside the Ayr Premix Plant in Ontario, Canada and learn why the customer is first in everything we do.

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Fort Worth, Texas

The original Fort Worth facility was built in 1969 with an addition added in 1980. A new Buhler mixing line with a process control system was added in 2020. The plant occupies a total of 114,000 square feet with the actual processing facility, office and warehouse occupying 30,865 square feet. Fort Worth’s principal operations are the distribution of straight ingredients (including vitamins and carotenoids), blending, packaging and distribution of multi component dry premixes and dispersible liquid concentrates (DLCs) for animal nutrition and health.

"Quality is every customer's right, and every employee's responsibility." At the Fort Worth premix plant, our employees take this quote to heart, and this short video allows you a closer look at how our people strive for quality for dsm-firmenich and our customers.

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Pendergrass, Georgia

The Pendergrass plant first opened in 1994 as a part of Roche Vitamins and Fine Chemicals and has been in the dsm-firmenich family since 2003.  Located in the “Poultry Capital of the World,” it runs five days a week, twenty-four hours a day.  Currently employing 34 people, the plant’s production serves customers throughout North America. Pendergrass manufactures dry vitamin and mineral premixes and vitamin concentrates for poultry, swine and ruminant feeds. 

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Published on

15 July 2024

Tags

  • Poultry
  • Ruminants
  • Swine
  • Premixes

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