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NatureWorks company history timeline

2002

In 2002, a manufacturing facility in Blair, Nebraska began operations.

2007

In 2007 Cargill, the parent company, entered into a joint venture with Japan's Teijin, which acquired a 50% stake in NatureWorks.

2009

The partnership was dissolved in July 2009 when Teijin faced corporate restructuring in the wake of the Great Recession.

2013

In 2013 NatureWorks sold 1 billion pounds of Ingeo.

2014

NatureWorks is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, but its main manufacturing facility is in Blair, Nebraska, with additional offices Naarden, the Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; and Bangkok, Thailand. It was considering building an additional manufacturing plant in Thailand but due to the 2014 Thai coup d'état and related turmoil it had not committed.

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Founded
1997
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Minnetonka, MN
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Christopher Ryan,Patrick Gruber
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