Anchor Ingredients Co

Founded in 1969, Dakota Specialty Milling is one of the largest suppliers of whole grain blends in North America. It is a family-owned business that serves various clients in the bread baking industry. The company offers a variety of edible seeds and nuts, including oats, almonds, barley, rye, and poppy and sesame seeds. Dakota Specialty Milling also provides granolas, batters, toasted products and doughnut toppings. It offers organic flakes and whole grain flours. The company provides wheat germ, soy, corn, millet, sunflower seeds and wheat bran. In addition, Dakota Specialty Milling serves the bread, cracker, cereal, granola and food coating industries.

Founded in 1899, American Crystal Sugar Company is a world-class agricultural cooperative that specializes in the production of sugar. It is owned by more than 2,500 shareholders who raise over 400,000 acres of sugar beet in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and northern Dakota. The company features products under the Sidney Sugars brand. It serves the retail and industrial markets. American Crystal Sugar Company products include sugar beet pulp, betaine and molasses. It maintains sugar beet processing plants in Minnesota and North Dakota. The company manages Midwest Agri-Commodities, which markets nearly 1 million tons of agricultural products every year in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. It employs a work force of approximately 250 people.

Founded in 1998, Aldevron creates, develops, manufactures and markets a full line of non-Good Manufacturing Process contract plasmid Deoxyribonucleic acid products and provides numerous related services. The company can also manufacture plasmid DNA under state-of-the-art GMP conditions for clinical applications. The company s core technology is a proprietary method to produce and purify plasmid DNA developed by the company s founders, John Ballantyne and Michael Chambers. Its products include research-and clinical-grade plasmid DNA, GMP-source plasmid DNA, gene therapy plasmids, genetic immunizations and antibodies, HBsAg products, UMVC gene therapy plasmids, gWIZ Reporter plasmids and a complete range of OEM and contract protein services. Aldevron maintains its corporate offices, research and production facilities in Fargo, N.D. and has additional operations in Friedberg, Germany.