Investor Facts

The Company

Key Advantages

Recognized Leader in Modified Specialty Starches

• Compete within the broad global starch industry by focusing on modified starches where we are one of the leading developers and marketers of specialty starches.
• Offer the broadest portfolio in North America of modified starches for paper, and the largest capacity for the top-of-the-line ethylated starches for high print resolution papers.
• Only food-grade modified potato starch manufacturer in North America.
• Ability to provide natural, customized formulations from a broad array of substrates separates us from the competition.
• 100+ years of product development and manufacturing experience, with a widely recognized reputation for providing exceptional quality, technology and service.

Diverse Base of Premier Customers and Sustainable End Markets

• Strong relationships with industry-leading food, paper and chemical sectors — built on high quality products, unsurpassed service and trust.
• Valued supplier to most segments in the food industry: leading quick service and casual dining restaurants, potato and meat processors, food manufacturers, custom blenders retailers and private label.
• Penford products are incorporated in core menu items in most restaurants, and in branded and private label products through retail grocery stores.
• Supply specialty starch blends and finished retail-ready products with value added wellness ingredients to numerous companion pet food and treat companies.
• Serve a broad range of large and diversified end markets: food, paper, packaging, bio-fuels, bio-chemicals, companion pet and animal feed.

Commitment to Sustainable Operations and Products

• Implement continuous improvement programs in all plants to reduce our carbon footprint.
• Utilize sustainable alternative in logistics and packaging.
• Zero landfill impact from by-products.
• Operate one of two corn wet mills that have received an Energy Star Award.
• Potato starch manufacturing process is the greenest in the world by using by-product streams as opposed to grinding potatoes.
• All of our food and industrial ingredients are based on natural, renewable resources.
• Offer several technologies and applications that contribute to sustainable wellness — proprietary lines of gluten-free and resistant starch formulas, and a range of safe, wellness-based pet products.

Strategic Locations and Alliances

• Strategically located product sites in some of the most agriculturally rich regions in the world, ensuring an abundant supply of the core carbohydrate materials.
• Decreases the cost of sourcing and transportation.
• Two R&D Centers of Excellence with scientists working to solve tomorrow's challenges and finding new opportunites to grow your business.
• On-site quality control lab at each production site.
• Strategic alliances with plants in Thailand, Sweden and the Czech Republic.