![(Left to Right) Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey; Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds; Alltech Director of North America Dr. Mark Lyons; Iowa Governor Terry Branstad and Alltech President and Founder Dr. Pearse Lyons cut the ribbon at Alltech’s new Ames, Iowa, facility.](https://img.wattagnet.com/files/base/wattglobalmedia/all/image/2015/04/an.1104FMalltechribboncutting.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&q=70&w=400)
Global animal health and nutrition company Alltech has expanded with a sixteenth North America office in Ames, Iowa.
The new facility will support sales in Iowa, offer a local support site for its growing customer base and help the company to develop a closer partnership with Iowa State University. “We will have sales, marketing and administration working out of this office to support Iowa, and we expect Iowa to be a significant part of our goal of being a $250 million region by 2015,” said Dr. Mark Lyons, director of Alltech North America.