With more than a century of experience, Darling Ingredients Inc.* provides a global growth platform for the development and production of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. Through diverse processing operations spread over five continents, we create a wide range of products and customized specialty solutions for clients and customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, fuel, bio-energy and fertilizer industries. We are proud of our role in the innovative development of bio fuels using our rendered fats and recycled cooking oils as feedstock. We pioneered the first and continuously-producing BQ-9000 certified facility in the 1990s to convert these materials into premium biodiesel, and in June 2013, we initiated startup of our mass-scale renewable diesel facility with our partner, Valero Energy. The only publicly-traded company in our industry (NYSE/DAR), we are headquartered in Irving, Texas and operate a network of over 200 facilities worldwide, staffed by app