IRVING, Texas, May 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling Ingredients
Inc. (NYSE: DAR) today announced that is has acquired
substantially all of the assets of Kruger Commodities, Inc.
including protein conversion facilities in Hamilton, MI and Tama, IA along with a protein blending
operation and used cooking oil collection business in Omaha, NE to support our low carbon fuel
initiative at Diamond Green Diesel.
"We are pleased to have the opportunity to add the Kruger
Commodities operations to Darling's global platform," said Mr.
Randall C. Stuewe, Darling
Ingredients Chairman and CEO. "This long established, family
owned business is a natural fit to the Darling network and will
help us to better serve our customers and growing feedstock demand
from Diamond Green Diesel, our low carbon fuel facility located in
Norco, LA."
ABOUT DARLING
Darling Ingredients Inc. is a global developer and producer of
sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible
bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized
specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical,
nutraceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy
and fertilizer industries. With operations on five
continents, the Company collects and transforms all aspects of
animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients,
such as gelatin, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and
meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow
grease, fuel feedstocks, green energy, natural casings and
hides. The Company also recovers and converts recycled oils
(used cooking oil and animal fats) into valuable feed and fuel
ingredients, and collects and processes residual bakery products
into feed ingredients. In addition, the Company provides
environmental services, such as grease trap collection and disposal
services to food service establishments and disposal services for
waste solids from the wastewater treatment systems of industrial
food processing plants. The Company sells its products domestically
and internationally and operates within three industry segments:
Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients and Fuel Ingredients. For
additional information, visit the Company's website at
http://www.darlingii.com.
For More
Information, contact:
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Melissa A. Gaither,
VP Investor
Relations
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251 O'Connor Ridge
Blvd., Suite 300
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& Global
Communications
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Irving, Texas
75038
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Phone:
972-717-0300
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