CJ Bio America and Lygos, a sustainable specialty chemical company, have entered into a new partnership, it was announced Tuesday.

The partnership is expected to have a positive impact on the CJ Bio America plant in the ag industrial park west of Fort Dodge called Iowa’s Crossroads of Global Innovation. Full details of the partnership have not been outlined.

The agreement between the two companies was mentioned at Tuesday’s Webster County Board of Supervisors meeting.

“We are excited about the continued investment in our ag industrial park,” Supervisor Mark Campbell said Tuesday afternoon.“We look forward to learning more details.”

“We hope to know more by the end of the week or early next week,” he added.

The CJ Bio America plant produces amino acids used in feed for poultry and hogs. It also produces a liquid soil amendment.

The plant opened in 2013 and has been expanded twice since then.

Lygos Inc., based in Hayward, California, was founded in 2011.

According to the company’s website, it uses biology, chemistry and application expertise to make sustainable products which are used in agriculture, personal care products and other diverse uses.