Alto Ingredients Inc

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Business Description

Sector

Materials

Industry

Chemicals

Headquarters

United States of America US

Employees

390

IPO date

Mar 24, 2005

Alto Ingredients makes and sells renewable fuels and specialty alcohols. Its main products include fuel ethanol, high-purity alcohols used in food, beverage, industrial, and pharmaceutical applications, and co-products such as distillers grains and corn oil. The company also produces ingredients for animal feed and other industrial uses, so it sits between agricultural processing and downstream manufacturing.

Its customers include fuel blenders and distributors, food and beverage companies, industrial buyers, pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturers, and livestock producers. Alto earns money by selling the ethanol and alcohol it manufactures, along with the byproducts created in the production process. That means its business depends on both commodity-style fuel markets and more specialized alcohol markets.

What makes Alto’s business different is that it is a processor of corn and other feedstocks, not just a pure fuel maker. It turns agricultural inputs into multiple saleable products, which helps it serve several end markets from the same production system. That gives it a role as a supplier of both renewable fuel ingredients and high-purity alcohols used in products people buy every day.