The Future of the Corn Wet Milling Industry Looks Bright According to New Report

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84073) has announced the
addition of Global Corn Wet Milling industry Analysis & Review Starch,
Sweeteners & Co-products 2008 to their offering.

This report is a comprehensive effort to document the industry
data along with a description of how global corn wet milling plants
are managed. It is a comprehensive review of several areas that cannot
be found in other publications. The Report offers many details of
production, markets, products, costs, capacity, players in the US and
data sets of sweeteners, starch derivatives, co-products including the
impact of trade regulations. None of this is available in a reports
format as we have attempted to compile in this report. In the last
section of the report is a complete list of global players of this
industry.

The corn processing industry has undergone many evolutionary
changes and is currently under tremendous pressure to maintain/improve
margins. The industry has experienced consolidation in the past few
years and this trend will continue to restructure and streamline scale
and efficiencies. In 2007,

SPI expanded its presence out side corn processing by acquiring
SPI Polyols of Delaware a major poylols processor. Recent demand on
starch from ethanol has greatly enhanced the margins including HFCS.
The HFCS demands have flattened due to concerns of obesity and
glycemic trends.

The total utilization of starch in the world in 2006 was 62
million tons (USDA, EU Commission).

The Carbohydrate economy is moving forward in several fronts to
create new products and technologies including bio-based products from
corn using the corn refining industry and other similar bioprocess
technologies from the renewable plant and ocean sources are most
promising growth areas globally. The most striking examples are
ethanol for fuel and food sweeteners, HFCS and range of corn syrups.
Besides these high volume commodity products corn wet milling and
refining plants are highly sophisticated bioprocess operations that
produce a range of products such as citric acids, lactic acids,
lysine, threoninie, xanthan gums, erithrytol, sorbitol, xylitol,
mannitol, hydrogenated starch hydrolyzates, maltodextrins, glucose
hydrolyzates and the most recent nutritional products Sucromalt.

During the last century petroleum-based industrial products
gradually replaced bio-based products once made from biological
materials. During the past almost 100 years the petrochemical business
model has been built on very efficient conversion of hydrocarbon feed
to produce very diver's products for numerous industrial applications.
Now, biobased industrial products are beginning to compete with
petroleum-derived products that once displaced them. We are now back
to a carbohydrate economy where the carbohydrates starch and
cellulosics are utilized to produce the material where the petroleum
based energy, fine chemicals and the intermediates are starting to
replace the fossil material.

This report offers comprehensive description and insight into the
corn wet milling and starch industry. Our comprehensive global,
technical and commercial experience is invaluable in providing the
information submitted in this report. This report also provides an
in-depth summary of the starch industry's players, their capabilities,
strengths and weaknesses. ADM and Cargill continue to be the leaders
in this industry in terms of volume.

There remain excellent opportunities for global, multinational
organizations to move forward and create a positive impact on the
global economical and technological fronts. With the appropriate
vision and strategy, the future for the corn wet milling industry, and
its customers, remains bright.

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Research and Markets
Laura Wood
Senior Manager
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Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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