Darling Ingredients Inc. announced Oct. 5 that it has acquired substantially all assets of Triple-T Foods Arkansas Inc., including a wet pet food ingredient operation in Springdale, Ark., along with a cold storage operation in Rogers, Ark.
According to the announcement, the acquisition further expands Darling's premium protein business for the growing pet food industry.
"Triple-T Foods is an excellent strategic fit with Darling's growing specialty pet food ingredient portfolio," Darling chairman and chief executive officer Randall C. Stuewe said. "Triple-T has established a long history of providing quality proteins into the high-end pet food markets, and we look forward to building upon that reputation. We expect this acquisition to be accretive immediately and to add customer depth to our other wet pet food operations in Nebraska and Kentucky."
Darling Ingredients is a global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer industries.
With operations on five continents, the company collects and transforms all aspects of animal byproduct streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as gelatin, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstocks, green energy, natural casings and hides. Darling also recovers and converts recycled oils (used cooking oil and animal fats) into feed and fuel ingredients and collects and processes residual bakery products into feed ingredients.
