More than $1.6 billion has been invested by businesses like Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) across Northwest Ohio’s food/ag sector over the last five years.

LDC’s soybean processing plant in Upper Sandusky will include integrated crushing, vegetable oil refining and lecithin production and packaging capabilities.

Soybeans are Ohio’s top exported agricultural product with more than 26,000 soybean farmers across the state producing an annual economic impact of $5.3 billion – a major factor which played a significant role in LDC’s decision to locate here.

“(Northwest Ohio) makes sense because the soybeans are grown here. There’s also a lot of feed demand. Eighty percent of the soybean is made up of feed for animals. The other 20 percent is oil we make in the food. There’s a significant amount of feed mills right in this area.”

–  Jeremy Mullins, Commercial Manager, LDC

Mullins also highlighted the area’s extensive transportation network and solid, committed workforce.

“We have wonderful highway access here with U.S. 30 and great rail access as well,” he said. “People here work hard – they’re rural people who know how to work, how to get dirty. They don’t mind being outside in bad weather, and they don’t mind being inside doing the hard work it takes to run these facilities.”

The company will employ more than 100 people at the new facility which will have annual soy crushing capacity of 1,500,000 MT, annual edible (RBD) soybean oil production capacity of 320,000 MT and annual lecithin production capacity of 7,500 MT.

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