Alto Ingredients, Inc.
Alto Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq Capital Market: ALTO) operates as a leading producer and distributor of specialty alcohols, renewable fuels, and essential ingredients in the United States. The company maintains its website at http://www.altoingredients.com. From the company’s description.
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What Alto Ingredients, Inc. does
In the company’s own words
Alto Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq Capital Market: ALTO) operates as a leading producer and distributor of specialty alcohols, renewable fuels, and essential ingredients in the United States. The company maintains its website at http://www.altoingredients.com.
Alto Ingredients operates five alcohol production facilities strategically located across the country: three integrated facilities at its Pekin Campus in Illinois, one facility in Oregon, and one facility in Idaho. The company maintains an annual alcohol production capacity of 330 million gallons, with the ability to produce up to 110 million gallons annually of specialty alcohols depending on product mix. Additionally, Alto operates a liquid carbon dioxide production facility adjacent to its Oregon plant.
The company's business is organized into three reportable segments. The Pekin production segment encompasses alcohol and essential ingredient production at the Illinois facilities. The Western production segment includes renewable fuel and essential ingredient production at the Oregon and Idaho facilities. The marketing and distribution segment handles sales of company-produced alcohols and essential ingredients alongside fuel-grade ethanol sourced from third parties.
Alto's product portfolio spans five key markets: Health, Home & Beauty; Food & Beverage; Industry & Agriculture; Essential Ingredients; and Renewable Fuels. Specialty alcohol products serve applications in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, hand sanitizers, and beverages. Essential ingredients include dried yeast, corn protein meal, distillers grains, and liquid carbon dioxide. The company markets approximately 350 million gallons of alcohols annually and over 1.2 million tons of essential ingredients.
The company employs approximately 390 full-time employees, with roughly 51 percent represented by labor unions. Alto maintains extensive customer relationships domestically and internationally, serving producers of consumer health products, distilled spirits manufacturers, food companies, and integrated oil companies. The company's largest customer, Chevron Products USA, represented approximately 9 percent of net sales in 2025.
Alto's competitive strengths include strong customer and supplier relationships, diverse product offerings across multiple quality grades, significant barriers to entry through specialized equipment and quality certifications, experienced management, and advantageous logistics access via rail, truck, and barge from its Midwest location.
Company details
- Sector
- Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals
- Headquarters
- SACRAMENTO, CA
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 778164
- SIC
- 2860
Financial performance, year by year
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Who owns Alto Ingredients, Inc. — and what changed
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