Darling Ingredients Inc. Overview
Company Headquarters: Texas, U.S.
Founded: 1882
Workforce: ~9,900
Company Working: Darling Ingredients Inc. (Darling Ingredients) is a global company involved in the manufacturing and development of sustainable natural ingredients. The company’s product segments include food ingredients, feed ingredients, and fuel ingredients for a plethora of end-use industries comprising food (including pet food), animal feed, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, fertilizer, leather goods, fuel, and bioenergy. The company’s major product types comprise fats, proteins, bakery, used cooking oil, bioenergy, and biofuels, among others. In addition, it is also involved in environmental services including waste disposal of food service stores like restaurants, grocery stores, and supermarkets.
Gelatin products of the company are marketed under its health brand Rousselot and are manufactured in the eleven production plants. The consumer base of the brand is spread across 75 countries with six sales locations. The key-end use industries of Rouseelot’s gelatin include food, pharma, and other technical applications. The recent acquisition of Gelnex strengthens the gelatin product portfolio of the company. Gelnex (Brazil) is one of the leading gelatin and collagen manufacturer in South America and has six production sites operated with a workforce of 1,000 employees
Strategy
Darling Ingredient’s key strategy is optimized process excellence which helps them in processing the raw material to the finished product in a shorter time which ultimately reduces the cost involved in the operation. The constant product innovation that suits the key industrial needs and trends plays a major role in their product positioning among the competitors. For instance, they produce research-grade gelatin that can help achieve the same results if scaled to mass production as well, X-Pure Gelatin Desaminotyrosine (GelDAT) is one such product apart from SiMoGel,
Another strategic initiative of the company is the partnership with research institutes like TIBI (California) for gaining practical insights into gelatin performance. This helps in further product innovation and boosts its credibility among its clientele. In addition, the company’s participation in trade events like Vitafoods, Bio Convention, Food Ingredients Europe, etc. helps them in better customer acquisition and relationship management.
