Every year, industry members from around the globe travel to the National Renderers Association (NRA) annual convention to hear, discuss, and hash out pressing issues facing the rendering industry. The convention also provides the opportunity to network with colleagues and industry suppliers.
Part of the success of each convention is credited to the many sponsors and tabletop exhibitors. To bring awareness to those companies who provide this support to the industry’s yearly meeting, each was invited to provide a brief summary of the company and its products and/or services. Following is an alphabetical guide to this year’s NRA convention sponsors and exhibitors who responded to the invitation by press time.
Acatris
2770 Portland Drive
Oakville, ON, Canada L6H 6R4
(905) 829-2414
www.acatris.com
Acatris is a global supplier of quality ingredients to the food and health industries. Specialty ingredients include the Dadex line of customized antioxidant solutions. With more than 20 years experience in serving the food, pet food, and health industries, Acatris knows that companies go to great lengths to deliver high quality products and don’t need oxidation or rancidity problems to undermine their efforts. Adding Dadex antioxidant systems to food products enhances stability, extends shelf life, and delays the onset of rancidity. The Dadex family of antioxidants is available in liquid or dry form and includes synthetic and natural antioxidant systems that are customized to meet customer needs. Acatris’ high quality group of products is supported by service and performance know-how through their technical specialists and extensively equipped laboratories. The company’s motto is, “We make things better.”
Agri Stats, Inc.
6510 Mutual Drive
Ft. Wayne, IN 46825
(260) 407-2700
www.agristats.com
Agri Stats is a growing statistical research and analysis firm specializing in improving the bottom line profitability of their clients. The company collects and analyzes performance and financial data, standardizes it for comparative purposes, and creates confidential benchmarking reports for the agribusiness industry.
Agri Stats was founded in 1985 by James H. Cox as a provider of detail information, management techniques, and concepts to improve the profitability of broiler companies in the United States.
Today, the company has clients in the United States and internationally. Agri Stats’ services and products have grown to encompass benchmarking for the broiler, turkey, egg, and swine industry, including comprehensive reporting for the rendering industry. The company also has a daily price discovery service (Express Markets, Inc., at www.expressmarketsinc.com) and can perform general industry analysis and forecasting services for clients.
Alloy Hardfacing and Engineering Co., Inc.
20425 Johnson Memorial Drive (Hwy 169)
Jordan, MN 55352
(800) 328-8408
www.alloy-inc.com
Celebrating 50 years in 2004 and an associate member of the NRA for four decades, Alloy’s third generation family ownership offers a complete line of services to the rendering industry from feasibility studies and system layout through system installation.
Alloy is unique in that it offers new, full warranty, remanufactured, and used equipment for meat, feather, and blood processing using both batch and continuous technologies. In addition to rendering process equipment, the company offers wastewater treatment equipment and systems for a broad variety of industries. Alloy solutions are hard at work on five continents with an ever-expanding list of satisfied customers worldwide.
While others might consider some projects too small, Alloy works on batch cookers with as little as 145-square-feet to continuous cookers with 4,100-square-feet heat transfer area. With innovations like the mechanical seal, which is now offered for all batch and continuous cookers/hydrolyzers, Alloy continues to offer solutions for the rendering industry.
Anco-Eaglin, Inc.
120 North Chimney Rock Road
Greensboro, NC 27409
(336) 855-7800
www.ancoeaglin.com
At the NRA convention tabletop reception in New Orleans, LA, attendees can learn about Anco-Eaglin’s expanding batch cooker line with a new Super Cooker 1700 series. Rendering customers are familiar with Anco’s proven, versatile 600 series. The Super Cooker provides additional features and benefits for customers looking for more capacity and a means to expand rendering production without major building renovation. The 1700 series Super Cooker can double the available capacity when compared to smaller cooker designs without any additional processing area required.
Customers considering continuous may be better served with the Anco 1700 series. For example, two Anco 1700 series cookers can match the evaporation rate of a small continuous cooker with basically the same horsepower demand, made possible with new drive technology, series 11 Pow-R-Pak drive with higher gear efficiency, and electronic torque control. Other offerings to the Anco line include U.S. Department of Agriculture /Ag Canada 1500 sanitary design and a series 160 CE certified.
Atlas-Stord, Inc.
309 Regional Road South
Greensboro, NC 27409
(336) 668-7727
www.atlas-stord.com
Atlas-Stord provides the rendering industry with innovative processing designs and rendering equipment that is reliable, wear resistant, and produces the highest quality products. The company builds all of its equipment to meet and exceed the customer’s demanding challenges and expectations.
Atlas-Stord’s process designs focus on ease of operation, the optimal utilization of energy, and high product yields from raw materials. The company provides expertise that enables the customer to maintain regulatory compliances and minimum environmental impact. Atlas-Stord has successfully deployed more processing systems utilizing waste heat than any other supplier.
Atlas-Stord designs specifically for the requirements of the application and offers processing solutions for both batch and continuous rendering systems for fish, poultry, and red meat raw materials. Whether for turnkey plants or single pieces of equipment, the rendering industry around the world has profited from Atlas-Stord’s expertise for more than 100 years.
BioDiesel International
Parkring 18
A-8074 Grambach
Graz, Austria
(43) 316-4009-100
www.biodiesel-intl.com
BioDiesel International (BDI) in Graz, Austria, is a world leader in multi-feedstock biodiesel plant technology. Not only has BDI built up its international reputation on engineering, erecting, and start-up services, but is also known for excellent customer support and after sales service.
A main focus of BDI is the rendering industry, where the company successfully realizes biodiesel plants in the United States and Europe to the full satisfaction of its customers since 1998. The key to this success is the proven BDI multi-feedstock technology, processing feedstock with up to 20 percent free fatty acids without losses to high quality biodiesel.
BDI’s current plant project for Argent Group Europe in Motherwell, Scotland, has a capacity of 50,000 tons per year and is directly connected to a rendering plant. Due to the fact that safe and effective means of disposing of animal by-products is becoming increasingly important in all European Union (EU) member states, this plant is receiving major European funding and represents the first demonstration plant within the EU for the production of biodiesel from tallow and used cooking oils.
Thus, BDI’s multi-feedstock biodiesel technology offers an integrated solution to recover a useful form of renewable energy from products previously increasingly considered as “waste.”
Bi-Pro Marketing, Ltd.
370 Speedvale Avenue, West
Guelph, ON, Canada N1H 7M7
(519) 824-2381
www.bi-pro.com
Bi-Pro Marketing has maintained steady growth by providing solutions to its broad base of clients in rendering, agriculture, and food products since 1992.
Rendered products are Bi-Pro’s core strength. In fact, the company offers the marketplace over 130 years of combined rendering experience. Their team of 60 industry-leading professionals are always looking for ways to provide ongoing support to the rendering industry while building on unique opportunities such as custom rendering.
Through the expansion of its diverse product line, Bi-Pro is now a key player in sourcing innovative and specialized ingredients and bringing new processing methods to the market. Bi-Pro’s six service areas are proteins, fats and oils; pet food ingredients; bird food and feed additives; grain and grain by-products; food ingredients; and custom services.
Bi-Pro is headquartered in Ontario, Canada, with branch offices located in Manitoba, Quebec, and Saskatchewan, Canada; a U.S. office is located in Minnesota.
Birmingham Hide and Tallow Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 1596
Birmingham, AL 35201
(205) 252-1197
www.bhtonline.com
For over 100 years, Birmingham Hide and Tallow (BHT) has been providing customers in the Southeast with rendering services and producing rendered products. While the focus of the product lines has evolved from hides and furs to waste cooking oil and inedible animal by-products, the company has not changed the focus of their commitment to their customers. From the small local diner to the national grocery store chain, each customer receives the same high level of personal service that has enabled BHT to sustain itself as a member of the rendering industry for so many years.
Bliss Industries, Inc.
P.O. Box 910
Ponca City, OK 74602-0910
(580) 765-7787
www.bliss-industries.com
Render magazine published an article in February 1987, titled, “A Hammermill You Will Love.” The rendering industry has continued to love the Bliss Eliminator hammermill.
Bliss Industries has continued to improve their hammermill design through the years. They introduced a design called the “relief” design. The company assigns an “R” in the prefix of the hammermill model to designate the relief design. This “R” originally represented the word “rendering;” therefore the “relief design” is actually the “rendering design.”
Brown Industrial, Inc.
P.O. Box 74
Botkins, OH 45306-0074
(937) 693-3838
www.brownindustrial.com
The Brown family has been involved in manufacturing mobile rendering equipment for over 50 years, spanning three generations. They have extensive experience in rendering equipment design and production, including many industry firsts throughout the years.
Brown Industrial is committed to producing quality products and has been investing in equipment to increase both quality and productivity. With the addition of two computer numerical control (CNC) high-powered laser cutters and CNC press brakes, the company has the ability to produce high quality repeatable parts. While their technology and services are high tech, Brown Industrial still does business the old-fashioned way…providing one-on-one personal service to the customer with in-house engineers available to serve any need. Brown Industrial services any rendering need: container grease units; bucket bodies and trailers; deadstock bodies; and raw material trailers.
Crown Iron Works Co.
2050 West County Road C
Roseville, MN 55113
(651) 639-8900
www.crowniron.com
Crown, an NRA member for the past two years, provides complete design and supply services for the oilseed and rendering industries, specializing in solvent extraction, refining, methyl ester (biodiesel), and oleochemical technology. Specific to the rendering industry, Crown offers a complete line of dryers suitable for blood or feathers, solid/liquid extraction equipment, tallow refining plants, and complete biodiesel facilities.
Crown has offices in the United States, England, Brazil, Honduras, Russia, and China to service its worldwide customer base.
Diversified Laboratories, Inc.
3810 Concorde Parkway
Chantilly, VA 20151-1128
(703) 222-8700
www.diversifiedlaboratories.com
For over 25 years and as a long-standing member of the NRA, Diversified Laboratories has proudly served the industry by specializing in the detection of contaminates including pesticides, PCBs, and other industrial chemicals in rendered products as regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
As the laboratory of choice for some of the largest names in the industry, protecting their clients is a job taken very seriously. For Diversified’s customers, a contamination, if left undetected, can have dramatic economic impacts with costs exceeding $1 million. Other impacts include lost sales, lost customer confidence, cost to a brand’s reputation, unfavorable publicity, and increased regulatory surveillance.
As a USDA certified laboratory, the company offers comprehensive screening, same day results, round-the-clock availability, complete customer confidentiality, internal quality assurance/control practices that exceed regulatory guidelines, cost effectiveness, complete independence, and export certification.
In 25 years of operation, no client of Diversified Laboratories has ever had any regulatory intervention due to a pesticide contamination issue.
Griffin Industries, Inc.
4221 Alexandria Pike
Cold Spring, KY 41076
(859) 572-2562
www.griffinind.com
Established in 1943, Griffin Industries is privately owned and managed by the Griffin family. The company collects and recycles agricultural waste. Meat and poultry by-products, grocery scraps, restaurant grease, and waste from the bakery industry is reclaimed and recycled into usable, everyday products. These by-products are recycled into fats, oils, proteins, alternative fuels, leather goods, organic fertilizers, and methyl esters that are synonymous with quality in the pet food, animal feed, industrial/chemical, petroleum, leather, and turf industries.
Griffin Industries recycles its raw material with little or no waste to discard. This commitment to the environment extends through the company’s manufacturing practices into products such as biodiesel fuel and Nature Safe Natural and Organic Fertilizers.
Griffin has certified over 20 of its plant locations through Audubon International’s Cooperative Sanctuary System’s Corporate and Business Certification Program and believes that sustainable resource management is not only an environmental responsibility, but also sound business.
International Dioxcide, Inc.
554 Ten Rod Road
North Kingstown, RI 02852
(401) 295-8800
www.idiclo2.com
International Dioxcide, a DuPont company, is a world leader in chlorine dioxide (ClO2) for odor scrubbing applications. They offer a variety of advanced chlorine dioxide generation systems with two- and three-part reactions. Patented pH control and five-point safety protocol without pre-reaction or dangerous ClO2 concentrations. Experienced field technicians provide full service programs, site evaluations, and technical assistance.
Jenkins Centrifuge Co., LLC
1123 Swift Street
North Kansas City, MO 64116-4194
(800) 635-1431
www.jenkinscentrifuge.com
Jenkins Centrifuge has been rebuilding centrifuges for the rendering industry since 1973 and knows that a centrifuge is a critical machine in any plant; therefore, they are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and will provide the turnaround time to meet the customer’s requirements. The company manufactures its own centrifuge and can supply quality, reconditioned centrifuges from most manufacturers.
In April 2003, Jenkins became a stocking distributor for Rosedowns’ presser wear parts including the new Rosie-D assembly that can increase throughput up to 40 percent.
Rendering companies have always been Jenkins’ primary business and will always be. The company thanks the industry for its past and continued business and will provide a personal thank you to all who visit them at the tabletop exhibit at the NRA convention.
Kemin Nutrisurance, Inc.
600 East Court Avenue, Suite 600-D
Des Moines, IA 50309
(877) 890-1462
www.nutrisurance.com
As specialists in the pet food industry, Kemin Nutrisurance provides valuable assistance to rendering companies striving to meet changing demands for high-quality pet food ingredients.
Pet owners want safe, fresh, nutritious, and good-tasting food for their pets. Pet food manufacturers demand safe, fresh, high-quality ingredients from their ingredient suppliers. The Kemin Nutrisurance complete line of natural and synthetic antioxidants is designed to help renderers meet customer demands. The company’s experts in freshness protection can prescribe the right antioxidant products in the right program with the right application equipment to deliver the value expected from a leader.
Kemin Nutrisurance programs are backed by the indus-try’s best analytical services so that well-informed business decisions can be made. The company is also there when help is needed, whether it’s responding to a custom order from a pet food manufacturer or solving a quality issue.
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
200 Commerce Street
Smithfield, VA 23430
(757) 365-3000
www.smithfieldfoods.com
With annualized sales of $10 billion, Smithfield Foods is the leading processor and marketer of fresh pork and processed meats in the United States, as well as the largest producer of hogs.
The Dupps Co.
P.O. Box 189
Germantown, OH 45327-0189
(937) 855-6555
www.dupps.com
Dupps has been a member and active supporter of the NRA since its founding. They specialize in rendering processes, providing everything from individual pieces of equipment to complete turnkey plants. Full engineering and design services are available and all Dupps products are backed by the industry’s largest field service staff and parts inventory.
New to Dupps this year is the innovative Airless Dryer. This advanced technology uses superheated water vapor as the drying medium rather than directly heated air. The benefits to renderers include higher product quality, reduced odor control expense, reduced fire risk, and no visible plume of exhaust.
Titus, Inc.
9887 6B Road
Plymouth, IN 46563
(800) 647-6891
www.titusinc.com
Located in the heartland of the Midwest, Titus is the manufacturing home of the Titus II and Titus II-SS grinders. The original machine was produced from mil steel and based upon and produced to function as a horizontal, free-swinging style hammermill for use in the rendering industry for grinding and particle sizing. This year, Titus celebrates 10 years of production, refinements, and added safety features and have Titus II grinders operating all over the world.
More recently, the company’s Titus II-SS machine is being produced from stainless steel and is being used for processing edible and waste food products such as onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and chicken.
Wellens and Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 24627
Minneapolis, MN 55424-0627
(952) 925-4600
Wellens and Co. is a family owned and operated agri-business firm based in Minneapolis, MN. Their mission has always been clear – to provide the best possible service to its suppliers and customers. Wellens and Co. achieves this by adhering to the ethical principles that have guided them over the years. Their extensive experience in all phases of the feed industry permits them to trade a variety of feed ingredients. Wellens and Co. purchases products such as white grease, animal/vegetable blended fat, yellow grease, meat and bone meal, ring-dried blood, and feather meal.
Wellens and Co. has been an active member and participant of the NRA since the mid-1960s. They support the NRA through their membership and at regional and national conventions each year. This affiliation facilitates problem solving with leaders in the industry. With change accelerating in agri-business, Wellens and Co. remains totally committed to the rendering industry.
W.W.S., Inc.
4032 Shoreline Drive 2
Spring Park, MN 55384
(888) 645-6328
W.W.S. is not a brokerage firm but a commodity merchandising company that guarantees its service in marketing mostly fats and oils and some proteins. They find suppliers for new buyers and find buyers for new suppliers of fats, oils, and proteins. Their goal is to be fair and honest to their customers. Services that W.W.S. provides include market prices, scheduling, transportation, guarantees on service and quality, all claims and problems handled precisely and professionally according to industry trade rules and standards, and honest advice on market pricing and quality issues.
For a complete listing of the sponsors and exhibitors for the 2004 National Renderers Association (NRA) convention in New Orleans, CA, October 18-23, 2004, visit www.renderers.org and click on “conventions.”
The NRA wishes to thank all the sponsors and exhibitors who so generously contributed to the success of this year’s convention. The continual support of the industry is much appreciated.
October 2004 Render