Darling International Inc.

Exporter
251 OConnor Ridge Blvd., Ste. 300, Irving, TX 75038-6510, United States
(972)717-0300, (972)717-1588 fax, http://www.darlingii.com

Primary SIC: Edible Fat,nec, Primary NAICS: Fats and Oils Refining and Blending
Description: The Swift meat packing interests and the Darling family founded Darling International Inc. in 1882. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Darling International is a provider of rendering, recycling and recovery services to the U.S. food industry and is organized into two segments: rendering, which is its core business of collecting and turning used meat and poultry by-products (bones, fat, feathers and offal) or used cooking oil into ingredients for feed and other industrial uses; and restaurant services, which focuses on increasing Darling International's grease collection business and equipment sales. The primary markets for these services include: restaurants, meat packers, grocery stores and meat markets. Darling International recycles 100 percent of all the oil it collects and the resulting products are used in the production of jet fuels, tires and other commercial products. With new changes in technology, the company is working on creating bio-fuels and it is researching bio-plastics. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Darling International has a very large network of facilities throughout the United States.Manufacturing: Protein, tallow and animal by-products for feed.