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FEATURE: EXECS SEE BRIGHT FUTURE FOR ADM MILLING UNIT
or wheat or soy, whether you're
in the textured protein business
or you're in barge freight, everything
that we do happens in this
building, " Cuddy said.
Beyond the value the collective
expertise of the company's professionals
bring to the business,
Cuddy spoke with passion about
intangible benefits to the physical
setup.
" The fact that there are no
walls and no cubicles helps that
connectivity, and it's super powerful, "
he said. " The energy out
there is incredible, and it's addictive.
For me, it's what brings
me to work every day for the last
24 years. It's like a shot of adrenaline coming here
and seeing what's going on. "
I truly believe that we
as ADM are the clear
leaders when it comes
to sustainability, when
it comes to regen
ag, when it comes to
carbon neutral and
the initiatives that we
have around that.
Tedd Kruse, president,
Milling and Baking Solutions
ity to procure their ingredients
from a single ADM salesperson.
" For example, our sweetener
business, " Cuddy said. " If it's
being sold into the milling and
baking area, Tedd's group carries
the water for them, so they're our
face to the market. We lean on
Tedd's team to be our experts in
the milling and baking space. "
Kruse added, " We're
talking
basic baking ingredients, that bakery
pantry. Our team oversees the
large bakery focused accounts.
So, you could have a salesperson,
and they could be selling sweeteners,
could be selling starches,
could be selling flour. Could be
Part of the growth engine
As ADM has intensified its focus around corporatewide
strategies targeting food security, sustainability
and health and well-being, the importance of having
brought milling into the fold increased, Cuddy said.
" Tedd's business, milling - sustainability is a big
part of what he's doing, " Cuddy said. " Health and
well-being is a big part of what he's doing, and obviously
food security is a big part of what he's doing.
" We're growing fast, and I wanted milling to
be part of this ADM growth engine. They
needed to breathe the air we breathe.
It's not just one business that has the
excitement, it's all of them collectively
that drives this machine. "
Flour
milling
er
with
under Carbohydrate
at ADM falls
Solutions,
one of three business segments
at
the company togethAgricultural
Services
and
Oilseeds and Nutrition.
Agricultural Services and Oilseeds
includes grain merchandising and
oilseed processing while Carbohydrate
Solutions includes wet and dry corn milling
together with wheat milling around the
Cuddy
world (beyond North America and the Caribbean,
ADM operates mills in the United Kingdom and has a
mill in Central America). Falling within the Nutrition
segment are two units, one focused on human nutrition
and the second on animal nutrition.
The integration of milling in Decatur has given ADM
the opportunity to offer many baking customers the abil44
selling
bakery mixes, whatever it might be. "
He explained, " To Chris' point, one of the great
things of getting milling and baking solutions based in
Decatur is the connectivity that we do have now and
the access to subject matter experts who are more familiar
with some of the newer and more complex nutrition
solutions in that portfolio right now. "
Emphasizing sustainability
Layering ADM's priorities over flour milling, Cuddy
particularly emphasized sustainability.
" This journey of sustainability is long and complicated
and multifaceted, " he said. " The first step that
Tedd took was deciding we're going to have a carbon
neutral milling footprint. It's certainly very important
for us, and we're proud of that. "
The carbon neutral designation for the company's
mills was first announced in August 2021 and was described
at the time by Cuddy as an " industry first of
its kind and scale. " Covered by the designation are
ADM's wheat flour mills, dry corn milling facilities
and its sorghum mill in the United States.
Going forward on the journey, Cuddy said partnering
with ADM's Agricultural Services and Oilseeds group
has been and will be crucial, especially related to regenerative
agriculture.
" Agricultural Services and Oilseeds has complete
touch points throughout the entire supply chain, starting
with the growers all the way to the finished solutions
we're providing to the customers, " he said. " What
I think is a true differentiator, we are able to leverage at
a scale that others just aren't able to replicate. "
The carbon neutrality status was achieved with
company-wide carbon capture and sequestration with
credits going to the milling group, together with what
Cuddy called " big energy treasure hunts. "
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