IRVING, Texas, July 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling
Ingredients Inc. (NYSE:DAR) announces the opening on July 1, 2019 of its third organic fertilizer
production facility in Fremont,
NE. The facility is located on a 10-acre site with the
ability to produce 35,000 tons of Nature Safe Natural & Organic
Fertilizers® annually. The new plant and finished product
storage is designed to meet the needs of organic growers operating
in the central region of the United
States. Darling has operated Nature Safe out of its
original Henderson, Kentucky plant
since the early 1990s, where it will continue to produce premium
fertilizer for customers in the midwest, northeast, and southeast
regions of the country. Darling announced the opening of a
new organic fertilizer plant in Turlock,
CA on January 2nd
of this year to serve the west.
"The company is focused on a US growth strategy where it could
leverage Darling's diverse supply of animal ingredients into the
organic fertilizer market," says Mike
Manning, Darling's VP of Organic Fertilizer and
Innovation. With long-established US rendering facilities
that produce feather meal, blood meal, and meat and bone meal, the
company's Nature Safe brand produces the highest quality organic
fertilizers on the market with cost-effective proficiency. The
Nebraska organic fertilizer
facility will utilize product from several nearby Darling rendering
plants.
The Fremont plant began
production July 1st, and
brought on a new management team. Pat
Wiegert joins Darling Ingredients as Plant Manager and
Kirk Carls, Central Regional
Commercial Business Manager, will execute Nature Safe's central
region go-to-market strategies.
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 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.
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