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As the country’s fourth-largest metro area and one of its most booming economies, North Texas is home to some of the world’s highest profile companies, including telecom giants, major financial firms, and one of the U.S.’s largest health care companies.
Now D-FW is staking a claim to another rising industry: plant-based cat litter.
Lady N, a Taiwanese cat litter brand, will begin manufacturing its tofu-based litter in Dallas, the company said Monday in a news release. It’s also “actively recruiting” personnel including a plant manager and human resources manager.
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The move comes as part of the Asian company’s push into the U.S. and its roughly $150 billion pet market. Lady N first began selling products in North America in 2023 and now aims to build “a localized U.S. supply chain,” according to the release. It already operates one warehouse in Northern California.
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Representatives for the company did not immediately respond to messages from The News on Monday asking for more details about its Dallas plans, including whether Lady N has already selected a local manufacturing location.
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Lady N was founded in 2020 by veterinary and animal scientists and nutritionists who are cat lovers, the company’s website says, and quickly became one of Taiwan’s leading tofu litter brands.
Taiwan, an island nation with a population of about 23 million people and, as of 2023, over 1.3 million pet cats. The country’s cat-to-human ratio remains far lower than that in the U.S., but in recent years its cat population has been surging, and the local pet food and supplies industry has boomed in turn.
Tofu litter, whose popularity has also been rising among cat owners, is made from soybean fiber and is generally considered more eco-friendly and safer than traditional clay or silica-based litters, although it’s also more expensive.
Lady N says its version is designed to be well-suited to automatic litter boxes, which have also exploded in popularity.
“Automatic litter boxes are common in U.S. homes, but truly compatible litters are not,” Naimei Hsu, a brand manager for the company, said in a news release. “Lady N was created to fill this overlooked gap.”
This year the litter brand has projected $4 million in U.S. sales, up from about $1.5 million in 2025 and $70,000 in 2023, when it entered the North American market.
In recent years, Texas and North Texas have made a broader push to strengthen business ties with Taiwan, including by hosting tech-heavy expos and job fairs.
