# Enhancing customer technical support for expanded sales of feed additive methionine in Central and South America | Business & Products | SUMITOMO CHEMICAL

> Sumitomo Chemical will add animal feed analysis services, covering corn and soybean meal, at its Latin America Research Center in Brazil, starting in the first quarter of FY2018. The company sells methionine in more than 70 countries and says methionine demand is growing quickly in Central and South America. The service is meant to support feed millers and expand sales in the region.

- Date: 2017-10-17 · published 2017-10-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Central and South America · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/68807-enhancing-customer-technical-support-for-expanded-sales-of-feed-additive
- Commodities: [Methionine](https://feedsoft.ai/c/METH.md)

## Why it matters

Stronger methionine demand in Latin American poultry feed could firm methionine prices and support sales of synthetic amino acids. The impact on grain and meal prices is small.

## Read by commodity

- METH: bullish ▲

## Sources

- sumitomo-chem.co.jp: https://www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp/english/news/detail/20171017.html

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