About NatureWorks® LLC
NatureWorks LLC is a joint venture of Cargill and Teijin Limited of Japan. Dedicated to meeting the world’s needs today without compromising the earth’s ability to meet the needs of tomorrow, NatureWorks LLC is the first company to offer a family of commercially available polymers, with significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions, derived from 100 percent annually renewable resources with cost and performance that compete with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers. The company applies its unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to create a proprietary polylactide polymer, which is marketed under the NatureWorks® polymer and Ingeo™ fibers brand names.