A. E. Staley

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Primient (Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC)

Formerly	A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company (1906–1985) Staley Continental Inc. (1985–1993) A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company (1993–2005) Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas LLC (2005–2022)
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Process manufacturing Food processing
Founded	1906 (incorporated as A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company)
Headquarters	Decatur, Illinois, United States
Key people	Jim Stutelberg (CEO)
Products	Starches Sweeteners
Parent	KPS Capital Partners
Website	www.primient.com

Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC (founded as A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company), also formerly known as Tate & Lyle Primary Products, is an American company that produces a range of starch products for the food, paper and other industries; high fructose corn syrup; crystalline fructose; and other agro-industrial products. The company was incorporated in 1906 as A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company by Augustus Eugene Staley.

In July 2021, Tate & Lyle announced it was spinning off Tate & Lyle Primary Products (formerly, A. E. Staley) into a new company to be known as Primary Products Ingredients Americas LLC (Primient). Tate & Lyle will maintain 50% ownership of Primient and the remaining 50% will be owned by KPS Capital Partners (including board and management control). The transaction was completed by the end of the first quarter of 2022.^[1][2] On May 23, 2024, Tate & Lyle announced that it has agreed to sell its remaining interest of Primient to KPS Capital Partners for $350 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close by end of July 2024.^[3]