IRVING, Texas,
Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) announces the opening
on January 2, 2019, of its second
organic fertilizer production facility in Turlock, CA. The new state-of-the-art
facility is located on a 21-acre site and will have the ability to
annually produce 35,000 tons of Nature Safe Natural & Organic
Fertilizer®. The new plant will also provide 4,500 tons of
storage capacity to meet the needs of organic growers operating in
California and the entire western
region of the United States.
Darling has operated Nature Safe out of its original
Henderson, Kentucky plant since
the early 1990's, where it will continue to produce its premium
fertilizer for customers in the rest of the country. The
strength of the organic fertilizer market in the western U.S. has
Nature Safe already working on plans to double the new Turlock plant's production capacity by end of
year 2019.
Mike Manning, Darling's Vice
President of Organic Fertilizer and Innovation, states that
recently the company has become focused on a growth strategy in
California where it could leverage
Darling's diverse supply of animal feed ingredients. With
long-established rendering facilities in Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Fresno and
Turlock that produce feather meal,
blood meal, and meat & bone meal, the company's Nature Safe
brand is able to produce the highest quality organic fertilizers on
the market with cost-effective proficiency.
When the new Turlock plant
begins production in January, it will bring on a new management
team. Dan Rodriguez,
West Regional Commercial Business Manager, will develop Nature
Safe's go-to-market strategies. Kevin Van Dewark has joined Darling
Ingredients as Plant Manager for the new Turlock fertilizer plant, and Mayra Pena will be its new Office
Manager.
Darling Ingredients is a global leader in the production of
sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible
bio-nutrients used by the food, feed, pharmaceutical, pet food,
fertilizer and fuel markets. Nature Safe is the company's
organic fertilizer brand serving customers throughout the U.S.
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 specialty
solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food,
feed, technical, 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. The Company sells its
products domestically and internationally. For additional
information, visit the Company's website at
http://www.darlingii.com.
Contact:
Rick Geise, Director, Fertilizer
Division
859-572-2558
rgeise@darlingii.com
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