Malteurop North America is a part of Malteurop, which is one of the world s leading malt producers. With more than 20 production plants, the company has operations in the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany and New Zealand. It has a production capacity of nearly 2 million tons. Malteurop specializes in a variety of human and technical resources for developing malting-barley varieties. The parent company organizes the sowing and monitoring of trial fields to evaluate and characterize different barley species. In addition, it specializes in varietal selection technologies to optimize the performances of barley varieties for meeting specific brewing and malting needs. Malteurop also identifies genes that define specific technical and agronomic characteristics.