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Kernel of Innovation

Corn is nature’s renewable building block and plays a role in our lives every day. It’s a versatile resource that can be used for just about everything – from making our food taste better and our cosmetics last longer, to making our packaging more environmentally friendly and our medicines easier to swallow.

That’s why we call corn “nature’s renewable building block.” Corn byproducts can be found in most products that comprise our everyday lives – shampoo, wallpaper, laundry detergent, yogurt, pharmaceuticals, packaging, pasta, and more!

During Ag on the Mall 2022, the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) is thrilled to feature a wide variety of products made from refined corn products. Our exhibit will highlight:

• Personal care products
• Health care products
• Bioplastics and other materials made from corn
• And more!

For over 150 years, corn refiners have been perfecting the process of separating corn into its component parts to create a myriad of value-added products. Through corn wet milling, a kernel is divided into four basic components: starch, germ, fiber, and protein. These components are used in countless innovative ways, improving our products in a sustainable way – helping develop advanced bioproducts for a sustainable future.

The term bioproducts designates a wide variety of corn-based products made from natural, renewable raw materials that are used in some of the most innovative industrial and consumer products available today, often as a petroleum substitute.

Thanks to decades of work by scientists and researchers in our industry, the contents of a simple kernel of corn are the basis for a thousand everyday products, such as pharmaceutical casings, paper goods, and automobile tires.

Robin-Bowen (002)

Robin J. Bowen 
Senior Vice President 

CORN REFINERS ASSOCIATION 
1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 400 
Washington, DC 20006-5806 

O (202) 534-3496 
C (703) 801-1344 
CORN.ORG