Ua hoʻolaha aku nei ʻo Western Polymer Corporation (WPC) i ke kūʻai ʻana mai i nā mea kanu hana a me nā pono hana o Aroostook Starch Company, LLC, ma Fort Fairfield, Maine. ʻO kēia loaʻa ʻana ke kolu o ka hana ʻana i ka starch no ka Hui.
E hoʻomau ka Western Polymer i ka hoʻomaʻamaʻa ʻana i ka papa ʻai ka uala starch ma kēia wahi ma hope o kekahi hoʻomaikaʻi i ka mea kanu a me nā pono hana. ʻO ka loaʻa ʻana i ka wahi Maine e hoʻololi ʻokoʻa ana ka ʻoihana, e hoʻonui ana i kāna ʻoihana ma waena o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Townsend-White ua hana nā mea hana ʻuala i ke kalana ʻo Aroostook i ka hui i ia wahi, a me ka poʻe hana.
"Ua loaʻa ka ʻoihana i ka loaʻa ʻana mai Mei a ʻo mākou nā mea koho kūleʻa," ʻo Lynn Townsend-White, pelekikena a me CEO o Western Polymer, i ʻōlelo ʻia i ka Poalua. ʻO ka hale ʻo Fort Fairfield "ua pani ʻia mai ka hopena o Mei, a ua hoʻolimalima mākou i ka hapa nui o nā limahana, a haʻalele iā mākou me 10 mau kānaka ma luna o nā limahana. Hoʻolālā mākou e wehe i ka lā 8 o Iulai e hana i kahi hoʻoponopono a hoʻomaka i ka hana. "
Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ʻo Aroostook Starch i ka makahiki 2001 e Nivoba, kahi kūpaʻa mai Netherlands, e hana i ka starch mai nā koena a me nā ʻuala i kāpae ʻia. I ka wehe mua ʻana o ka mea kanu, aia nā limahana he 35 ma luna o nā limahana e kōkua i ka hana ʻana he 50,000 a 60,000 mau tona o ka māno o ka makahiki. I kekahi mau makahiki ma hope mai, ua loaʻa ka hui e Emsland i hoʻokumu ʻia i Kelemania, nāna i pani ka hale ma 2005 ma hope o ka hoʻomaka ʻana o ka lilo ʻana o ke kālā i ka mea kanu. Ua lilo ʻo Starch Partners LLC i kuleana ma 2006.
Ke hana nei ka mea kanu ʻo West Polymer's Moses Lake mai 1952 a ke hana nei i kēia manawa i nā huahana starch ʻoihana i hoʻohana nui ʻia i ka ʻoihana pepa. Aia ke keʻena nui ʻo Moses Lake, Wakinekona i ka ʻāina mahiʻai ʻo Columbia Basin waiwai o ka mokuʻāina. ʻO kā WPC pā kanu māno lua, kūkulu ʻia ma 2001, aia ia ma Grand Forks, North Dakota a hana i nā huahana o nā starch like me ka wahi ʻo Moses Lake. ʻO ISO Poly9001 ka Western Polymer: 2008 i hōʻoia ʻia a hōʻoia ʻia ʻo Kosher.