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Serving the food industry since 1979

Highest food safety standards across the globe

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Our production facilities

Serving the food industry since 1969, we understand the importance of delivering products to you on time and at the quality level you expect from us.  That is why all our raw materials are sourced from different locations and manufactured at multiple sites, ensuring you receive your order regardless of any production issues in one specific place.

Having multiples production sites in both Europe and the Americas ensures the flexibility demanded by global food producers today.

Being a highly accountable supplier, we are exceptionally committed to delivering full traceability and being able to ensure consistent quality. We deploy globally acknowledged QA and food safety systems in accordance with the highest standards. Apart from mandatory documentation, our QA and regulatory specialists offer valuable advice on declaration issues and import/export restrictions in order to ensure the fastest time-to-market for our customers.

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Harlan, Iowa

Harlan, Iowa

The production site in Harlan, Iowa, has two separate facilities - a stocks and broths plant and functional protein plant - where we produce functional proteins. Construction of a new soup stock plant began in 2013 with production starting in 2014. The protein extraction plant also underwent a major modernization in 2012. The original plant dates back to 1962 and was taken over by LGI in 1994.

This facility has a state-of-the-art waste water treatment system.

 

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Lytton, Iowa

Lytton, Iowa

In Lytton, Iowa, we produce stocks, broths, extracts, fats and flavors for culinary applications like soups, sauces and prepared foods. Since it was purchased in 1980, the plant has undergone continuous modernization. 

 

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Dalton, GA

Dalton, GA

COMING SOON IN LATE 2024!

New broth manufacturing plant being built in Dalton, Georgia, with the ability to meet the growing opportunities in the market for food-grade chicken broth solutions.