Animal Nutrition

Evonik is a worldwide leader in essential amino acids for sustainable animal nutrition. It combines feed amino acid expertise with precision livestock farming, gut health, and advanced feed ingredients. Its science-based products and services help improve efficiency and sustainability in agriculture and food. The portfolio includes lysine, methionine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine solutions for all species. It also supports hatchery performance, nutrient analysis, gut health, and pathogen control across livestock farming and aquaculture.

Evonik is a worldwide leader in essential amino acids for sustainable animal nutrition.

It combines feed amino acid expertise with precision livestock farming, gut health, and advanced feed ingredients.

Its science-based products and services help improve efficiency and sustainability in agriculture and food.

The portfolio includes lysine, methionine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine solutions for all species.

It also supports hatchery performance, nutrient analysis, gut health, and pathogen control across livestock farming and aquaculture.

We are sciencing the global food challenge

Because it's all about life

At Evonik Animal Nutrition, we are experts in the field of animal nutrition and health. We have a strong desire to improve current practices in livestock farming across the globe – to achieve more with less.

Our knowledge is based on science and many decades of experience. Based on our amino acids, functional feed additives and feed quality services, we can supply our customers with customized solutions for the sustainable and efficient production of animal protein.

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Evonik’s portfolio of products and services helps livestock producers meet the key challenges of today and tomorrow.

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Different species have different needs. Find out more about our solutions for poultry, swine, ruminants and other industries.

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July 16, 2026

Animal Nutrition

Evonik completes backward integration of its global MetAMINO® production network

Evonik has completed the backward integration of its world-scale MetAMINO® (DL-methionine) production hub in Mobile, Alabama. With on-site production of the key intermediate methyl mercaptan in Europe (Antwerp), Asia (Singapore), and now the Americas (Mobile), the company has fully integrated its global methionine production network, further strengthening efficiency, supply security, and sustainability.

June 23, 2026

Animal Nutrition

Evonik optimiert Methanol-Versorgung für den Methionin-Verbund in Europa

Essen. Zur langfristigen Stärkung der Rohstoffsicherheit hat Evonik eine neue Lösung für die Methanol-Versorgung des Standortes Wesseling entwickelt. Sie wurde gemeinsam mit den ebenfalls im Kölner Süden ansässigen Chemiefirmen Lülsdorf Functional Solutions GmbH, Röhm GmbH und den Infrastrukturexperten von SYNEQT Pipelines realisiert.

June 23, 2026

Animal Nutrition

Evonik optimizes methanol supply for its methionine production network in Europe

Essen, Germany. As part of strengthening its long-term raw material strategy, Evonik has developed a new solution to secure the methanol supply needed for producing a methionine precursor at its Wesseling site.

June 10, 2026

Company

Probiotics instead of antibiotics in livestock production

Evonik is making an important contribution to reducing antibiotic use in livestock and, consequently, combating the growing spread of antibiotic resistance.

March 05, 2026

Animal Nutrition

Evonik to increase its global price for MetAMINO®

Essen, Germany. Evonik hereby announces a net price increase of 10% for MetAMINO® (DL-methionine 99%, feed grade), effective immediately for all markets.

MetAMINO® ATLAS Edition 2 – out now

The new MetAMINO® ATLAS presents 19 performance trials conducted in 12 countries on 4 continents with more than 2 million animals. It shows that the 65% bioeﬃcacy concept is universally applicable. Click here to view the paper in other languages or editions.

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