West Coast Rendering

Cargill Dressings, Sauces & Oils refines vegetable and tropical oil and animal fat for a range of food and nonfood manufacturers. It also makes shortenings, frying oil, mayonnaise, dressings, and sauces for the foodservice industry. The business operates a dressing plant, refineries, shortening and oil packaging plants, mayonnaise production and culinary sauce facilities in the United States. It also operates an oil refinery in Mexico. The company s clients include food manufacturers and quick-service and casual-dining restaurant chains. Cargill Dressings, Sauces & Oils is a business unit of Cargill, Incorporated, which is an international provider of food, agricultural and risk management products and services. It employs more than 149,000 employees in over 63 countries. The company maintains an office in Fullerton, Calif.

Darling International provides recycling and rendering services in which animal and food waste products are turned into useful commercial goods, including tallow; protein meals, meat and bone meal; and yellow grease. These products are primarily sold to animal feed and oleo-chemical manufacturers throughout the world. The company offers rendering, recycling and recovery solutions to the United States food industry. Darling also serves the restaurant industry by removing used cooking oil and pumping grease traps. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Darling International consists of more than 40 facilities throughout the United States. Darling International was founded when the Darling family joined forces with the Swift & Co. meatpacking firm in 1882.