Darling International

With our roots dating back to the late 19th century, we have evolved from a small rendering company into the world's leading innovative developer and producer of sustainable organic ingredients. Our unique broad product and service portfolio is active all over the world, customized for high end markets and local needs. February: Randall C. Stuewe appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Darling International has approximately 80 locations in the U.S., with -1870 employees. Acquires GRIFFIN INDUSTRIES, INC., a provider of rendering, bakery residual and used cooking oil recycling services in Southeast United States.

One of the challenges faced by supermarkets is how to safely and efficiently handle their used cooking oil and inedible meat co-products in a clean, cost-effective way. Our restaurant services division provides our industry's most diverse lineup of state-of-the-art used cooking oil storage equipment in North America, making us the ideal partner to both national chains and independent operators. We are also a grease trap cleaning company, that collects sanitary fat and bone collection as well for North America.

Our industry is often referred to as the "original recycler." We are committed to carrying on that legacy well into the future. Through our diverse global family of producers, we collect and repurpose millions of metric tons of inedible materials annually. Beef, poultry and pork by-product streams are converted into usable and specialty ingredients, such as gelatin, tallow, feed-grade fats, meat and bone meal, poultry meal, yellow grease, fuel feedstocks, green energy, natural casings and hides, which are sold to the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, fuel, bio-energy and fertilizer industries around the world.

These values define us as a business. They are drive us and are responsible for Darling Ingredients' success. But these values were not only drawn from business acumen, they were also lessons learned from our cohabitation with the community and the environment. Darling Ingredients models after the United Nations' initiatives to organize and address the world's needs. Darling is working to achieve safer food and feed, better communities and workplaces, and cleaner air and water. Applying our resources to specific sustainable development goals takes our work from mere philosophy to clean water for a child to drink.