Des Plaines, Illinois – Ingredients International, a division of Chicago Sweeteners Inc., is pleased to announce that on March 2, 2009, it will be merging its operations with those of LSI Specialty Products, San Leandro, CA. LSI Specialty Products, founded by Al Saroni, Jr. and Warren Mooney in 1962, is the premier processor and distributor of corn sweeteners, sugar, molasses and liquid invert sugar in the West.