DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.

Darling Ingredients Inc. produces natural ingredients and specialty solutions from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. The company operates across three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients. Its operations include recycling animal by-products, used cooking oil, and bakery residuals into animal meals, fats, collagen, natural casings, crude heparin, and organic fertilizers. In addition, through its Diamond Green Diesel joint venture, the company refines recycled greases and oils into renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, while also providing commercial grease trap cleaning services. Its customer base includes producers of animal feed, pet food, biofuels, food, pharmaceuticals, and fertilizers, as well as industrial oleo-chemical manufacturers and food service establishments.

The company maintains a global footprint spanning five continents, including North America, Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia. Its physical operations encompass over 150 processing and transfer facilities in the United States, six facilities in Canada, and an international network of 81 production sites. In the United States, it gathers used cooking oil from approximately 158,300 locations. The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Summary of the business section of Darling Ingredients's latest annual report, written by StockData.

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“We have approximately 15,000 employees world-wide and are subject to a wide range of local, provincial and national laws and regulations governing the health and safety of workers, including, for example, OSHA in the United States.”