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1935 |
Company founded by brothers Le Roy and Ty Zeigler as a local producer of poultry and livestock feeds |
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1955 |
Manufactured first feeds for aquaculture |
| 1967 |
Dr. Thomas Zeigler assumes leadership as President & CEO, with strategic focus toward research & development of specialty animal and aquatic feeds |
| 1975 |
Development of Open Formula Laboratory Animal Diets in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health |
| 1983 |
First to develop technology to achieve desired water stability for shrimp feeds |
| 1984 |
Development of a nutritionally complete line of Pet & Zoo Diets in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institute |
| 1986 |
Licensee operation started in Panama for manufacture of aquaculture feeds into Central America |
| 1988 |
Commercialization of Ascorbyl Tripolyphosphate (Stay C) - a stable form of
Vitamin C |
| 1989 |
New European expansion processing technology installed to produce highly digestible aquaculture feeds |
| 1992 |
Began operations of drug-free manufacturing facility in U.S. for production of Pet and Lab Research Diets |
| 1993 |
Licensee operations started in Mexico and Belize |
| 1994 |
Introduced Shrimp Hatchery Diets to provide a complete line of shrimp feed products |
| 1996 |
Developed microparticulate and microencapsulated technology for larval feeds |
| 2000 |
Granted State of Pennsylvania, Governor's Export Excellence Award |
| 2001 |
Received ISO-9001 Certification for both U.S. manufacturing facilities |
| 2002 |
Awarded Advanced Technology Program (ATP) Grant for US Shrimp Production |
| 2003 |
Development of bio-secure shrimp maturation feed to replace natural food sources |
| 2003 |
Introduced MonsterDietsT performance line of pet foods |
| 2004 |
Received Organic Certification for both U.S manufacturing facilities |
| 2005 |
Developed first aquatic diets used for biomedical research |
