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A passion for customer experience and delivering best-in-class service with integrity and trust is why Nutra Blend has been a key customer and supplier of Bill Barr & Company for over 35 years. They are dedicated to ensuring superior quality in every aspect of their business, providing customers with consistently safe and nutritionally sound products. Here we focus on Nutra Blend’s pet food services, illustrating why they are a leading player in the pet food industry.
In the past 50 years, Nutra Blend has grown from a small, poultry-focused company to one of the largest micro-ingredient distributors and premix blenders in the U.S. Now a major force in the pet food industry, Nutra Blend specializes in developing custom formulations and sourcing and assessing high-quality ingredients while providing unparalleled quality and service.
Nutra Blend has created strong relationships with the largest animal nutrition ingredient companies across the globe, and they are one of the largest vitamin and amino acid purchasers in the U.S. They source high-quality, sustainable ingredients from over 350 vendors to provide a marketplace for their animal nutrition customers while maintaining the highest quality and safety standards.
Headquartered in Neosho, Missouri, Nutra Blend services the contiguous U.S. from coast to coast. They have two additional manufacturing plants and distribution centers in Madera, California, and St. Albans, Vermont, as well as distribution centers in Hubbard, Oregon, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. These strategically located facilities, a 24/7 production capability and a top of line fleet, provide unmatched manufacturing and transportation flexibility and reliable transport options for seamless delivery.
Data analytics, automation and blockchain technology are all used to track ingredient sourcing, monitor production processes and ensure traceability and transparency throughout the supply chain.
Nutra Blend has a dedicated pet food team as well as an extensive team of experts across quality assurance, nutrition and formulation, and regulatory compliance that provide unrivaled technical support and customer service. They also have numerous quality personnel on location at their manufacturing sites.
The nutrition and formulation team includes three nutritionists with in-depth knowledge of customer products, premix attributes and manufacturing capabilities, and quality assurance requirements.
The relationship between food quality and animal performance is invaluable. The quality team at Nutra Blend ensures every batch of premix exceeds industry standards, giving customers peace of mind and confidence in their products.
The entire company uses the Enterprise Quality Management System (EQMS), which undergoes an annual audit. All pet food sites are SQF FSC 34 certified and the Neosho site is also FAMI-QS certified. Customers and vendor partners are welcome to conduct audits, and quarterly key performance indicators are established between Nutra Blend and their pet food customers.
Nutra Blend has an unwavering commitment to safe and superior ingredients. They require any organization that supplies ingredients, packaging or finished product to be part of their ingredient supplier quality program. This ensures they only procure from approved supplier locations and all ingredients are FDA-approved feed additives (FAP, GRAS).
They use routine wet chemistry testing of inbound vitamins and minerals to verify supplier guarantees and use near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) for verification of conformity on ingredients. They also have robust biosecurity measures implemented.
As one of the largest purchaser of vitamins and amino acids in the U.S., Nutra Blend is well equipped to handle your pet food premix blending and micro ingredient needs. This scale, leveraged through our partnership with them, provides a valuable asset for the pet food industry. Additionally, Nutra Blend’s dedicated pet food team and robust quality assurance program ensures their products are safe, nutritionally sound and delivered on time. Learn more on the Nutra Blend website or give us a call if you have any questions.
