Kemin Industries is celebrating ‘61 since 61‘ this year. Starting in 61 from an old wool barn where R.W. Nelson mixed his first lot for agriculture and animal production markets of the Midwest Kemin has come a long way where thousands of its Team serve more than 500 products in over 120 countries.
In India, the celebrations are being held at ‘The Leela Palace,’ Chennai today. Dr. Chris Nelson, President & CEO, Kemin Industries Inc. USA delivered the welcome note.
Dr. Nelson talked about How Kemin today is serving a wide range of industries from animal feed production, aquaculture, vaccines, pet foods, food ingredients, health, and nutraceuticals to textiles and biofuels.
A common ingredient for this diverse service is thoroughly knowing the molecule. First, a molecule is studied completely and then the experts at Kemin relate it to various industries and it’s application in those fields. Hence come the returns 22:1.
Service to the customers is the key. Supply chain that has been nurtured for the last 60 years was visible during the past 2 years of covid when Kemin was able to manage a steady supply to its customers.
Kemin has always had this feeling of responsibility towards the communities where they work. They are the principal partner with the World Food Programme in their efforts to be able to solve hunger problems in war-torn areas of the world. They also helped in rebuilding schools in China after the Schezwan earthquake and in India after the tsunami. Through the World Food Programme, they have helped serve millions of people and kept them from starvation. This is a part of them giving back to the community.
Sustainability is another key concern efforts are being made to reduce the carbon footprint. The roof of the corporate headquarters in US is covered with solar panels and the same goes for all their manufacturing locations. Their dedicated sustainability program aims to achieve carbon Net Zero by the year 2050.
At Kemin, we are transforming lives by reaching out to a billion people on a daily basis and the vision is to be able to reach eight billion people by the middle of 2040s and for this, we have to act in a partnership which is the overall theme of our presentation.
With our team of people and the partnerships that we are able to forge with you that we promise to get the returns on investment of 22:1.
Finally, he stated that Kemin in future will focus on remaining a family owned company which already has 3 members of the third generation active within the company with the probability of two more out of twelve joining in the near future.
