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Ingredion Incorporated

Ingredion Incorporated

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Westchester, IL · INGR · Public
Ingredion is executing a major consolidation strategy, acquiring UK-based Tate & Lyle for $3.6 billion to create a scaled global specialty ingredients provider with expanded capabilities in texturants and sugar reduction. The company is also strategically acquiring complementary assets like Benicaros prebiotic fiber to strengthen its nutrition and health-focused ingredient portfolio.

Ingredion Incorporated, along with its affiliated entities, specializes in the global production and sale of starches and sweeteners, catering to a diverse range of industries. The company's operations are strategically organized into four geographical segments: North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its extensive product portfolio includes a variety of sweetener solutions such as glucose, high maltose, and high fructose corn syrups, as well as caramel colors, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, and glucose syrup solids. Beyond sweeteners, Ingredion also provides food-grade and industrial starches, biomaterials, and key nutrition ingredients. The company further offers specific corn-derived products like edible corn oil, and refined corn oil supplied to manufacturers of cooking oils, margarine, salad dressings, shortening, and mayonnaise. It also produces corn gluten feed, a protein source for poultry, pet food, and aquaculture. Additionally, Ingredion processes fruit and vegetable products, delivering concentrates, purees, essences, pulse proteins, and hydrocolloid systems and blends. These ingredients are predominantly extracted from corn, alongside other starch-rich raw materials such as tapioca, potatoes, and rice. Ingredion's primary clientele hails from the food, beverage, brewing, and animal nutrition sectors. Established in 1906, the firm was initially known as Corn Products International, Inc., before officially rebranding to Ingredion Incorporated in June 2012. Its corporate headquarters are situated in Westchester, Illinois.

Employees
11,000
Mfg Plants
6
All Facilities
9
Activity
9/10
Type
Public

Plant Locations (9 mapped)

INGR Stock Price

Manufacturing Plants (6)

Cedar Rapids Plant
Cedar Rapids, IA
Corn wet milling; sweeteners, industrial starches for packaging/papermaking; $50M expansion underway to add 50% output capacity (completion ~2027)
Argo Plant (Bedford Park)
Bedford Park, IL
Largest Ingredion corn wet milling plant; produces sweeteners, starches, corn oil, gluten feed — flagship US production site
Indianapolis Corn Wet Mill
Indianapolis, IN
Corn wet milling; specialty starches and texturizers for food/pharma/beauty; $100M modernization + cogeneration project underway (completion 2026)
North Kansas City Plant
North Kansas City, MO
Corn wet milling; produces sweeteners, starches, and biomaterial ingredients
Winston-Salem Plant
Winston-Salem, NC
Corn wet milling; sweeteners, starches, oils, nutrition ingredients and biomaterials
South Sioux City Pea Protein Plant
South Sioux City, NE
Plant-based protein manufacturing; produces VITESSENCE pea protein isolate and PURITY P pea starch; $185M facility opened 2020, first of its kind in North America

Other Facilities (3)

Stockton Distribution Center
Stockton, CA · distribution
Finished product distribution for western US customers; former corn wet mill converted to DC in 2018
Corporate Headquarters
Westchester, IL · hq
Global HQ for Ingredion Incorporated (formerly Corn Products International)
Bridgewater Idea Labs (Global R&D Center)
Bridgewater, NJ · r&d
Global R&D and customer co-creation hub; 250+ food scientists and engineers; DIAL-IN sweetness/texture technology; named 2024 Top NJ Workplace