Welcome to Venture Commodities, Inc.
Our Story
Our Process
Our Story
Venture Commodities, Inc. (VCI) was incorporated on December 2, 1991. The business was started by Paul and Penny VanNortwick.
Our Plant
Our Process
Our Story
The Canton facility located at 144 Goss Street was originally constructed in a more simplistic form by Dixie Poultry in the late 1960’s. In 1974, Adams Laboratories, Inc. acquired the facility and extensively redesigned it, making it more or less in its current design state. The facility was then acquired by Jacob Stern and Sons, Inc. i
The Canton facility located at 144 Goss Street was originally constructed in a more simplistic form by Dixie Poultry in the late 1960’s. In 1974, Adams Laboratories, Inc. acquired the facility and extensively redesigned it, making it more or less in its current design state. The facility was then acquired by Jacob Stern and Sons, Inc. in 1977, who ran its operations until December of 1991, when Paul and Penny VanNortwick acquired it. VCI, since acquiring the facility, has greatly expanded the through-put capabilities of the operation for both truck and railcar shipments, outbound and inbound. Christopher Braaksma started with Venture Commodities in 1996 and took over the business from the retiring Paul VanNortwick in 2012 .
VCI’s business and use of these facilities, like its predecessors, is in the manufacture of blended feed-fat products for use as a caloric enhancer in the preparation of farm animal feeds. The company’s customers consist of the various feed mills where all the grains (protein meals) and all the additives, including fat, are compounded into finished feeds for the farms to use.
Our Process
Our Process
Our Process
At our core - we are recyclers. VCI receives a great variety of component animal fats vegetable oils, and glycerin carefully analyzes these in our on-site wet-chem lab, and then prepares mixes or “batches” of finished blends designed to meet consistent product specifications and be uniform from shipment to shipment. Heat & gravity sepera
At our core - we are recyclers. VCI receives a great variety of component animal fats vegetable oils, and glycerin carefully analyzes these in our on-site wet-chem lab, and then prepares mixes or “batches” of finished blends designed to meet consistent product specifications and be uniform from shipment to shipment. Heat & gravity seperation, ph adjustment (acidulation), physical horizonal centrifuge separation and distillation are all used in the process to create high quality animal fats, vegetable oils and glycerin.