Penford Food Ingredients Co.

Penford Food Ingredients is the premier carbohydrate company providing the processed food industry with specialty starches, dextrose and dextrin. PFI is the only North American manufacturer of food grade potato starch, and has extensive capabilities for processing other value-added starches from corn and tapioca. PFI has developed a family of unique starches that deliver meaningful benefits for specific processing conditions. We also make spherical dextrose products that meet the demands of the nutritional and confectionary tableting industry.

PFI is committed to being your best technical solutions partner. To accomplish this, we continue to invest heavily in Research & Development. At a time when the food industry is pulling back, we spend 10 times the food industry average (as a percent of sales) on leading edge ingredient technology and applications research. Half of our R&D staff, which has doubled in the past few years, have the highest degrees in their fields. The result is an R&D effort that provides products that are true solutions for your applications, not merely an off-the-shelf ingredient.

In just the last few years, we've also broadened our product line with particular emphasis on developing starches that meet market needs in specific applications. Today, our broad range of potato, tapioca and corn starches solve a myriad of processing and marketplace challenges. Our R&D application focus also has lead to several patents and partnering opportunities with several Fortune 100 food companies.

Today's Penford Food Ingredients is your very best resource for ingredient and application research support. With our experienced technical and sales staff, we stand ready to be put to the toughest test in your product development efforts.