This past June, Archer Daniels Midland Co., Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., and Matsutani America Inc. formed a joint venture to support the worldwide sales and marketing of the food ingredient Fibersol-2™. The partnership combines ADM’s production facilities and transportation network and Matsutani’s technical and scientific expertise.
These companies are far from the only ones forming such alliances as a way to leverage products in the marketplace, combine research and development resour…