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Ardent Mills launches new business unit
DENVER, COLORADO, U.S. - Ardent Mills has introduced
The Annex by Ardent Mills, a new business unit dedicated to exploring and providing food companies and food service operators
with specialty ingredients and products.
The Annex offers a broad portfolio of heirloom wheats, including emmer, einkorn, spelt and White Sonora; rye; barley; pulses; and
ancient grains, including Ardent Mills' Great Plains Quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat, teff and sorghum. Ardent said the ingredients will
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"An annex is independent yet is part of something bigger," said
Shrene White, general manager of The Annex by Ardent Mills. "We're
excited to be empowered by Ardent Mills to be idea cultivators and

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Ardent said it will provide support to The
Annex through its other business units, including The Ardent Mills Advantage and Innovative
Bakery Resources (IBR).
"We're excited about the possibilities The
Annex opens up," said Dan Dye, CEO of
Dye
Ardent Mills. "It's a big step based on a simple, powerful idea: good
food matters to everyone, and it should be available to everyone. We
look forward to working closely with our partners big and small as
we dream together about where that idea is headed next."

The Andersons, ICM to build new bio-refinery
MAUMEE, OHIO, U.S. - The Andersons, Inc. and ICM, Inc.
have partnered to form Element, LLC, a joint venture that will
build and operate an ethanol production facility featuring ICM's
equipment and process technologies. Element is expected to build
a 70-million-gallon-per-year bio-refinery located in Colwich,
Kansas, U.S., adjacent to ICM's headquarters.
"This investment executes on several of our stated strategic
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production facilities, increasing capacity under management, developing new technologies with higher value co-products and expanding our fee-based services offering," said Pat Bowe, chief executive
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expected to produce ethanol yields in excess of 3.1 gallons per bushel
at full capacity, The Andersons said.

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