The Belarusian National Biotechnological Corporation (BNBC) plans to add capacities for amino acid production, building the third stage of its feed additive complex, the company revealed without disclosing targeted production capacities. The investments are part of a “comprehensive development plan through to 2032,” BNBC said.
According to Expana's Feed Additives Supply & Demand Database, BNBC's current amino acid production capacities amount to 65,000 tonnes/year (lysine HCl and lysine sulfate), 6,000 tonnes/year (threonine), and 1,300 tonnes/year (tryptophan).
According to Lubov Savkina, head of the Savkina Expert Group, a Moscow-based consultancy firm, in 2024, the former BNBC general director, Daniil Uritskiy, said in a private conversation that BNBC was planning to expand amino acid production by around 57,000 tonnes (40,000 tonnes of threonine, 5,000 tonnes of tryptophan, 10,000 tonnes of valine, 1,000 tonnes of isoleucine, and 1,000 tonnes of leucine).
"I don't know how much their plans have changed now, but these volumes can almost completely cover Russia's needs," Savkina commented.
Based on existing agreements, BNBC needs to coordinate its development plans with the Russian side, a source in the Russian feed additive industry commented.
Despite the original hope to establish feed additive exports to Europe and some Asian countries, BNBC almost entirely sells its product to Russia, so any production rise would be reflected in the local market situation, the source explained.
According to this same source, BNBC needs to speed up its development plans, as quite a few projects for amino acids production are being kicked off in Russia, where feed additive production will be subject to state aid from the federal budget from 2027.
"They [BNBC] already have a plant, and we [Russia] are still thinking about whether to build [new plants]. Of course, taking into account logistics, it is more profitable to bring [feed additives] from Belarus than from China. But taking into account the country's food security, we need to build [production capacities] in Russia," Savkina added.
