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The use of scrap tires in industrial faciUties is also a potential growth market. Perhaps the best known user in this category is Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (Decatur, Illinois). Another industrial user, Elexsys (Sauget, Illinois), uses energy derived from its use of IDE as a supplemental fuel to manufacture chemicals used in the mbber industry. 

World production ia the late 1990s of both natural and synthetic forms of vitamin E is estimated at 22,000 metric tons and growth is expected to keep pace with increasing need. The 1993 U.S. production was 14,096 metric tons (47) with an additional 1080 metric tons from imports. The principal U.S. producers of the natural form are Eastman Chemical Company, Archer Daniels Midland Company, and Henkel, and of synthetic vitamin E, Hoffmaim-La Roche and BASE. International producers include Hoffmaim-La Roche, BASE, Eisai, and Rhc ne-Poulenc. 

Arcadian Corporation, See Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan hic. (Canada), 217 Arch Chemicals hic., 217 Arch Coal hic., 217 Archer Daniels Midland Company, 217 Archiniica, 206... 

L. Steven Young, Greg A. Taylor, and Alexander T. Bonkowski Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Chicago, IL 60639... 

Ingredient Update 1985, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company,... 

ADM, Archer Daniels Midland Company Stockholder s Report, November 28, 1983. Affleck, R., et al Enzymatic Catalysis and Dynamics in Low-Water Environments , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 89. 1100 1101 (1992). 

Fuel Ethanol—Technical Bulletin, September 1993 Archer Daniels Midland Company P.O. Box 1470 Decatur, Illinois 62525... 

Finally, it should be noted that commercial production of ethanol by continuous fermentation of grain mash has reportedly been achieved at Archer-Daniels-Midland Company and that National Distillers researchers have also developed such a process. Although continuous fermentation, per se, is not new there is some skepticism concerning the degree to which this represents a real technical and economic advance. ... 

Archer Daniels Midland Company and Cargill, Inc. both entered the starch industry through purchase of plants that were originally built by entrepreneurs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Corn Starch Syrup Company was acquired by Cargill in 1967... 

ADM Com Processing (a division of Archer Daniels Midland Company) has plants in Decatur, Illinois Cedar Rapids, Iowa Clinton, Iowa and Montezuma, New York. 

Fig. 34.7. Photograph of an operating soybean extraction plant. (Courtesy of Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, IL.)...

The first domestic crushing of soybean occurred in Seattle, Washington, in 1910, using seed imported from Manchuria.152 Domestically produced soybean was crushed at cottonseed oil mills in the South and linseed (flaxseed) oil mills in the Midwest during the 1910-1920 era.152,156 The first commercially successful domestic soybean solvent continuous extraction plants were installed by Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and the Glidden Company in Chicago in 1934, both using 100 tpd Hildebrandt U-tube extractors and commercial hexane as solvent. They also were equipped to produce phosphatides.153... 

The yield is based on a linseed oil containing approximately 45 per cent of linolenic acid. Because of the formation of stereoisomers, only 25 per cent of the bromoacid is precipitated in the solid form. By using water-white distilled linseed fatty acids, obtained from Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the yield of solid bromoacid may be increased to 48-53 g. 

Archer Daniels Midland Company Decatur, Illinois Kao Corporation Tochigi, Japan... 

The Energy Independent (1997). From the Field to the Future, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Vol. 2 (6), 1, March. 

Table 7.3 Archer-Daniels-Midland Company Financial Performance...

At present, Metabolix Inc (Cambridge, MA) andTepha Inc (Lexington, MA) are most probably the most advanced companies in this area. Metabolix has build together with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) a new plant in Clinton (Iowa) to produce about 50000 tons per year of various PHAScl for bulk applications. Tepha is focusing on the production of various sophisticated medical devices like sutures, cardiovascular tissues, meshes etc. 

A riboflavin production process based on Candida famata, another natural riboflavin-overproducing fungus growing as yeast, was developed and used for commercial riboflavin production by Coors Brewing Company, USA. Later, Archer Daniels Midland Company, USA, acquired the process and produced riboflavin from hydrolyzed corn starch. Meanwhile, the process is not used at the industrial scale anymore. 

Archer Daniels Midland Company 4666 Faries Parkway Decatur, IL62526 1-800-637-5843 www.admwnriri com... 

The principles of extrusion were described by Mercier et al. (1989) and. the processing of proteins by Stanley (1989) and Rokey et al. (1993). Texturized Vegetable Protein and TVP are registered trademarks of the Archer Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Illinois, and the generic terms texturized soy protein, TSP, or texturized vegetable foodprotein are used. Two types of products are made (i) extrusion-cooked meat extenders, which are made from SF or flakes or SPC and are rehydrated to 60 to 65% moisture before blending with meats or meat emulsions at levels of 20 to 30% and... 

Metabolix, MetaboUx, Inc. and Archer Daniels Midland Company Enter Strategic Alliance to Commercialize PHA Natural Polymers, press release, Nov. 4, 2004. 

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