Glanbia Nutritionals Ingredient Technologies to Build New Cereal Processing Facility

Glanbia Nutritionals entered the flax business when it purchased the former Pizzey’s Milling in Angusville in September 2007. The new facility in Sioux Falls will produce MeadowPure Quality whole and milled flaxseed ingredients as well as other seed and grain products.

30 Nov 2012 --- Glanbia Nutritionals Ingredient Technologies, (GNIT) a global innovator in value-added protein and flaxseed ingredients, announced it will build a 40,000 sq. ft. cereal ingredient processing facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Sioux Falls location will replace the company’s plant in Angusville, Manitoba which was destroyed by fire in March 2012. Glanbia Nutritionals entered the flax business when it purchased the former Pizzey’s Milling in Angusville in September 2007. The new facility in Sioux Falls will produce MeadowPure Quality whole and milled flaxseed ingredients as well as other seed and grain products.

GNIT develops, manufactures and sells nutritional and functional ingredients to food, beverage and supplement manufacturers. It is a leading global supplier of ingredients derived from dairy, flaxseed and other nutritious sources. Products include whey proteins, whey peptides, milk proteins, flaxseed ingredients, functional ingredient systems, dairy minerals and lactose. The company employs over 1,800 employees throughout the U.S., with R&D facilities in Idaho and four manufacturing plants in Idaho and New Mexico.

GNIT is part of Glanbia Nutritionals which is owned by Glanbia plc, an international cheese and global nutritional solutions group headquartered in Ireland. Glanbia plc is a $4.2 billion company with operations in 14 countries and exports to 130 countries, employing more than 4,500 employees.