Part of Rousselot's Collagen Peptide Expansion
Strategy
IRVING, Texas, July 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling
Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR), today announced that its Rousselot
business has successfully commissioned collagen peptides production
at its Ghent Belgium location. Ghent is one of the main Rousselot
collagen production sites and is exclusively producing porcine
collagen. Ghent is also home to the Rousselot Expertise Center
combining the global R&D Center, the EMEA application labs and
the Pilot Hall opened in 2019. Rousselot Ghent is now well
positioned to serve the worldwide market for collagen peptides with
first commercial batches ready for delivery as of July.
"We are excited to announce the commissioning of this production
facility in Ghent," said Randall C.
Stuewe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Darling
Ingredients. "Expanding our global production of hydrolyzed
collagen is an important part of our strategy moving forward. Our
Rousselot business has been producing bovine collagen peptides in
Brazil and porcine collagen
peptides in Angoulême, France and
we have recently completed construction of a new state of the art
production unit dedicated to fish collagen peptides in Angoulême as
well," Stuewe added.
The first commercial batches of fish collagen peptides from the
new facility will be delivered to Rousselot worldwide customers in
August. Furthermore, to answer the rapid growth of the bovine
collagen market and to be closer to the European market, Rousselot
Angoulême has now started to produce collagen peptides of bovine
origin. Construction continues for the collagen peptides facility
in Presidente Epitacio, Brazil
which is expected to be completed in October
2020. Once completed, Darling will have four facilities
which can produce bovine, porcine and fish collagen peptides.
"It was vital to review our production and supply chain
organization and to build new production capabilities, able not
only to respond to the strong collagen market growth but also to
produce the collagens of superior quality that our customers and
the consumers demand," explains Jos Vervoort, Executive Vice
President Rousselot.
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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expectations for the development of our business. Although
management believes that the plans and objectives reflected in or
suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, all
forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and
actual future results may be materially different from the plans,
objectives and expectations expressed in this press release.
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