Metex Nutrition Animale - Eurolysine: The latest figures, news and market research on Metex Nutrition Animale

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Country: France

Manufacturer of animal feed for pigs, aquaculture and pet animals,

Sustainable chemistry: Metex slows down in Amiens 20/01/2024

Metex: 280 employees at the Amiens site, nearly 450 employees overall.
36-hectare plant in Amiens with a production capacity of 100,000 tonnes of ingredients per year.
Severe competition from China, which sells its surplus lysine in Europe at ultra-competitive prices.

Amino acid specialist Metex hopes to pull itself out of the doldrums 25/11/2023

Metex's share price peaked at almost 7 euros in early 2022 and remains below 50 cents less than two years later.
Metex sales halved to 69 million euros in the first half of 2023.
In 2020, 50% of the Old Continent's lysine requirements would be supplied by China, compared with 82% today.
The cost of selling lysine has fallen from almost €3 to €1.3 over a certain period.
The Metex group posted a loss of over €50 million last year.

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