Evonik Builds L-Lysine Capacity in Brazil

Evonik Industries says it plans to build a new facility for the biotechnology production of L-lysine—an amino acid for animal feed that Evonik markets under the brand name Biolys—at the production site of Cargill at Castro, Brazil. The plant is expected to become operational by 2014. Evonik says it also plans to produce about 100,000 m.t./year of Biolys as part of the previously announced joint venture, DonBioTech, at Volgodonsk in the Rostov region of Russia, starting...

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