American firm DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences recently opened a new manufacturing plant in Wuxi, China to support its Animal Nutrition business in the country, the company announced in a release.

“This facility will improve the flexibility of our offerings to the Chinese animal nutrition market,” Aart Mateboer, business unit director, Animal Nutrition, said in a statement. “We look forward to providing our key accounts a more customized offering, as well as a larger range of packaging sizes to better meet our customers’ needs. It provides us enhanced capabilities to launch many new products out of our global R&D pipeline to support the evolving needs of our customers in China.”

The company said recently expanded capabilities at its Shanghai Animal Nutrition Applications & Technical Service Laboratory will complement the new facility in Wuxi.

DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences develops and manufactures solutions used in the food and beverage, dietary supplement, and pharmaceutical industries.