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[https://www.darlingii.com/about]\n\nIts principal businesses are Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients, including a share in the Diamond Green Diesel renewable-fuels joint venture. For fiscal 2025, the latest complete annual reporting year available as of October 2, 2026, Darling reported approximately $6.14 billion in net sales. [P11886699][P42221261][P8787098][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000119312526116070/d26898dars.pdf] The company’s official About page lists more than 260 facilities and approximately 15,000 employees; its FY2025 results release describes operations in more than 15 countries. 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The segment also provides grease-trap services to food-service businesses. [P11886699]\n\nFood Ingredients include collagen made from bones, hides, pigskins and fish skins; natural sausage casings; crude heparin; food-grade animal fat; and bone chips and bone ash. Collagen is supplied to pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, pet-food and technical markets. The company’s collagen brands include Peptan, Peptinex and Nextida™. [P42221261][P26100173]\n\nFuel Ingredients include renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable naphtha and other light-end renewable hydrocarbons, produced by Diamond Green Diesel from feedstocks such as animal fats, used cooking oil, distillers corn oil and vegetable oils. Its process combines UOP’s Ecofining™ hydroprocessing-isomerization technology with Desmet Ballestra pretreatment. DGD has reported combined renewable-fuel capacity of about 1.2 billion gallons per year; its Port Arthur facility can upgrade about half of its 470-million-gallon annual capacity to SAF. [P108748032][P18944227][P42265580]\n\nFor FY2025, segment revenue was $3,990.1 million for Feed Ingredients, $1,545.0 million for Food Ingredients and $600.8 million for Fuel Ingredients, equivalent to approximately 65.0%, 25.2% and 9.8% of total revenue, respectively (shares calculated from reported segment revenue). [T13218851]\n[P11886699][P42221261][P26100173][P108748032][P18944227][P42265580][T13218851][T13218851][T13218851]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-02T14:05:12.163652Z" }, { "type": "GEOGRAPHY", "text": "Darling Ingredients’ operating footprint spans North America, Europe, South America, China and Australia. Its Food Ingredients collagen operations span Europe, China, South America and North America, while its natural-casings activities are located in Europe and China. [P11886699][P1659343]\n\nThe company reports operating plants in locations including Amarillo, Texas; Aquiraz, Brazil; and Burgum, the Netherlands. [T33102] Darling Ingredients International reports 81 production facilities across five continents. [P62216974] The two Diamond Green Diesel facilities are in Norco, Louisiana, and Port Arthur, Texas. [P42265580] Sales are managed through trading departments in Irving, Texas; Cold Spring, Kentucky; and Son en Breugel, the Netherlands, with additional offices in Europe, Asia, South America and North America. [P20913791]\n\nFor FY2025, ended January 3, 2026, reported net sales were $6,135.9 million. Geographic sales were North America $3,455.6 million (56.3%), Europe $1,786.5 million (29.1%), South America $570.9 million (9.3%), China $261.4 million (4.3%) and Other $61.4 million (1.0%). 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Fuel Ingredients includes the bioenergy businesses and the company’s investment in Diamond Green Diesel; its reported segment net sales were bioenergy. The segment generated $600.8 million, approximately 9.8% of total net sales [P28917495][T1276391][T13218851]. Diamond Green Diesel is included in Fuel Ingredients rather than reported as a separate segment [T13218851]. Percentages are calculated from segment net sales of $6,135.9 million in total [T13218851].\n[P110298687][P5197624][T13218851][P51415390][T13218851][P28917495][T1276391][T13218851][T13218851]", "updatedAt": "2026-10-02T14:05:12.163652Z" }, { "type": "HISTORY", "text": "Founded in Chicago in 1882 by the Swift meat-packing interests and the Darling family, the company was incorporated in Delaware in 1962 as Darling-Delaware Company, Inc. It changed its name to Darling International Inc. in 1993. [P101783597][https://www.darlingii.com/about]\n\nA major expansion came in 2010, when Darling completed its merger with rendering company Griffin Industries. In 2013, it acquired Maple Leaf Foods’ Rothsay rendering business in Canada, and Diamond Green Diesel, its joint venture with Valero, began production. In 2014, Darling acquired VION Ingredients, extending its international operations, and changed its name to Darling Ingredients Inc. 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