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Darling International Inc.
Refined Petroleum Pipelines TX, United States
Company Description
Darling International Inc. is America's leading provider of rendering, recycling, and recovery solutions to the nation's food industry. Through its two operating segments, Rendering and Bakery Services, the Company operates more than 120 processing and transfer facilities, located throughout the United States to process raw materials into finished products. The Rendering segment engages in the collection and processing of animal by-products, including hides, from butcher shops, grocery stores, food service industry, and meat and poultry processors. It converts these products principally into useable oils and proteins utilized by the agricultural, leather, and oleo-chemical industries. This segment also includes Restaurant Services, which involves the collection of used cooking oils from food service establishments, recycling them into similar products, such as high-energy animal feed ingredients and industrial oils. It also provides grease trap collection services and sells equipment to restaurants. The Bakery feed division collects bakery waste materials and processess the raw material into bakery by-products (BBP), including Cookie Meal, an animal feed ingredient primarily used in poultry rations. Founded in 1882, Darling is headquartered in Irving, Texas.
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Darling International Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Listing rings the NYSE Closing Bell
Darling International Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Listing
On Thursday, December 6, executives and guests of Darling International Inc.(NYSE: DAR), will visit the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to mark the company's 5th anniversary of listing. The company's common stock began trading on the NYSE on October 24, 2007.
In honor of the occasion, Chairman and CEO, Randall Stuewe will ring the NYSE Closing Bell.
About Darling International Inc:
Darling International Inc. is America's oldest, largest and most innovative recycling solutions company serving the nation's food industry. The company collects and recycles animal by-products, bakery residuals and used cooking oil from poultry and meat processors, commercial bakeries, grocery stores, butcher shops, and food service establishments and provides grease trap cleaning services to many of the same establishments. The company then transforms these waste streams into useable feed ingredients such as tallow, feed-grade fats, meat and bone meal, poultry meal, and bakery by-products.
For over 130 years, Darling's legacy as a recycling pioneer continues to drive its focus on innovation and sustainability, creating new markets for its products, such as its 50/50 joint venture partnership with Valero Energy to build a renewable diesel plant. The new facility, Diamond Green Diesel, located on a site adjacent to Valero's St. Charles refinery near Norco, Louisiana, will convert used cooking oil and animal fats primarily supplied by Darling, along with other available fats, into renewable diesel. Designed to produce approximately 9,300 barrels of renewable diesel per day, or 137 million gallons per year, the plant is slated for completion in early 2013.
Executives
- Randall C. Stuewe, Chief Executive Officer
- Mr. Randall C. Stuewe, Randy has been Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Darling International Inc., since February, 3, 2003. Mr. Stuewe served as President of ConAgra Foods, Inc. and its Executive Vice President from 1996 to 2002. He served as President of Gilroy Foods Inc. He served for twelve years in management, sales and trading positions at Cargill, Inc. He serves as Director of Darling International Inc.
- Robert A. Griffin, President - Griffin Industries
- Mr. Robert A. Griffin is President - Griffin Industries of Darling International Inc., since December 17, 2010. Mr. Griffin served as President of Griffin Industries, Inc. from 2006 until its merger with the company on December 17, 2010. He has experience in the areas of raw material procurement and plant operations. Mr. Griffin is also actively involved with the National Renderers Association and the Fats and Proteins Research Foundation.
- Colin Stevenson, CFO, Executive Vice President
- Mr. Colin Stevenson has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Darling International Inc., effective September 1, 2012. He has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP since 1999, where he became a partner in 2002 and most recently served as leader of its Dallas Financial Services Tax Group. During his career at PwC, he served a diversified group of publicly-traded and private companies in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, real estate, private equity, technology and services. Prior to PwC, Mr. Stevenson spent approximately 8 years in industry holding a variety of positions including CFO and division president for privately held construction and land development entities, as well as regional vice president of financial operations for the Ryland Group, a publicly-traded company on the NYSE.
- John O. Muse, Executive Vice President
- Mr. John O. Muse is the Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer of Darling International Inc., effective as of September 1, 2012. From October 1997 to February 2000, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he was Vice President and General Manager at Consolidated Nutrition, L.C. from 1994 to 1997. He also held the position of Vice President of Premiere Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Archer-Daniels Midland Company from 1992 to 1994. From 1971 to 1992, Mr. Muse was Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Secretary at Central Soya Company, Inc.
- Neil Katchen, Executive Vice President/Co-Chief Operations Officer
- Mr. Neil Katchen has been Co-Chief Operations Officer and Executive Vice President at Darling International Inc., since December 2010 and November 2001 respecitvely. Mr. Katchen served as Executive Vice President of Operations at Darling International Inc. since January 2010. Mr. Katchen served as Chief Operations Officer of Darling International Inc. since January 2010. Mr. Katchen served as Chief Operating Officer of Retail and Service at at Darling International Inc. ... since November 2001 until January 3, 2010. Prior thereto, He served as Vice President of Darling International Inc. He served as General Manager of Darling International Inc.'s Newark, New Jersey facility from January 1990 to October 1997.
- Martin W. Griffin, Executive Vice President/Co-Chief Operations Officer
- Mr. Martin W. Griffin is Executive Vice President, Co-Chief Operations Officer of Darling International Inc., since December 17, 2010. Mr. Griffin served as Chief Operating Officer of Griffin Industries, Inc. from 2006 until its merger with the company on December 17, 2010. He has experience in raw material procurement and plant operations. Mr. Griffin is involved in several state associations within the industry as well as the Fats and Proteins Research Foundation and the National Renderers Association.
- John F. Sterling, Executive Vice President/General Counsel and Secretary
- Mr. John F. Sterling serves as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Darling International Inc., since August 2007. From 1997 to July 2007, Mr. Sterling worked for Pillowtex Corporation, where he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since 1999. Pillowtex Corporation filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code on July 30, 2003.