Industrial rendering

Industrial rendering is a factory-scale process that uses slaughterhouse waste, restaurant grease, and butcher shop trimmings as its raw materials. This material can include the fatty tissue, heads, bones, offal, and other waste animal parts. The rendering process simultaneously dries the material and separates the fat from the bone and protein. After rendering, the materials are much more resistant to spoiling. The fat can be used in animal feed, in soap-making, in candles, as a raw material for biodiesel production, and as a feed-stock for the oleochemical industry. The bone and protein becomes dry particles known as meat and bone meal.

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Rendering companies

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• Darling International
• Baker Commodities
• PDM Group

Industry organizations

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• Australian Renderers' Association Inc.
• National Renderer?s Association (US)
• Fats and Proteins Research Foundation (US)
• Animal Protein Producers Industry (US)
• United Kingdom Renderers' Association (UK)

Industry publication

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• Render magazine