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- Qingdao Vland Biotech Inc. (603739.SS) engages in the research, development, production and sale of enzyme preparations, microecological preparations, animal health products and marine aquaculture solutions principally in China and internationally. The company offers a broad portfolio of products including feed enzymes, industrial enzymes and food enzymes; probiotics such as aquaculture premixes, health products, animal probiotics and plant probiotics; animal vaccines and biological products encompassing live and inactivated poultry and swine vaccines as well as egg yolk antibodies; poultry drugs comprising antiparasitic, antiviral and nutritional drugs together with disinfectants; and traditional Chinese veterinary medicines for livestock, scale, avian breeding and laying hens. It operates across industries such as agriculture, animal husbandry, textile, pulp and paper, health care, laundry, biofuel, household cleaning, detergents, food, animal feed, environmental protection and washing. Founded in 2005 and headquartered at Vland Innovation Park, No. 596-1 Jiushui East Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao, Shandong, China, the company maintains 33 subsidiary companies, nine production bases and nine technology centers with over 1,500 employees worldwide. Qingdao Vland Biotech Inc. listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange A-shares main board in 2019. Recent developments include the January 2024 operational launch of Evonik Vland Biotech (Shandong) Co., Ltd., a joint venture with Evonik based in Qingdao and utilizing production facilities in Huimin to expand market presence with probiotics and solutions for livestock gut health, complemented by Evonik's distribution outside Greater China. The company established Vland Biotechnology Ho Chi Minh Company Limited in Vietnam in 2018 and the Vland-ADM Joint Enzyme R&D Center in California, US, in 2017, while forming an ADM joint venture in 2021 to address growing Chinese demand for human probiotics; in 2022, it created ADM-Vland Biotech (Shandong) Co., Ltd.