Cargill (Blair Wet‑Mill)

Cargill’s Blair, Nebraska facility stands as North America’s largest integrated wet-milling operation, exemplifying industrial scale, process efficiency, and sustainability leadership in agricultural processing. With a daily capacity of 340,000 bushels of corn, the campus converts raw inputs into high-value outputs including starch, glucose, and ethanol for diverse food and industrial applications.

At the core of its offering is Corn Starch B‑875, a food-grade native starch produced through a combination of ion-exchange purification and hydrocyclone separation technologies. The final product is dried to below 12% moisture and packaged in 1-ton flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs), ensuring safe handling and global transportability. Each lot is traceable via Julian-day mill codes and railcar identifiers, supporting robust supply chain transparency and quality control.

Certified to FSSC 22000 food safety standards, the site integrates advanced energy infrastructure including a 200 MW cogeneration unit, enabling a notably low scope 2 carbon intensity of 0.29 kg CO₂e per kg of starch. This positions the Blair campus as a model for low-carbon, high-efficiency ingredient manufacturing within the bioindustrial and food sectors.