NEWS 14 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE September 2022 Darling Ingredients Inc., the world's premier company repurposing animal and food byproducts into specialty food and feed ingredients and a leader in decarbonization solutions, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Brazil’s largest independent rendering company, FASA Group. The company first announced the acquisition in May 2022 for a purchase price of approximately R$2.8 billion Brazilian Real in cash ($542.6 million USD at today's exchange rate), plus or minus various closing adjustments and a contingent payment based on future earnings growth. As part of the transaction, Darling Ingredients has acquired 14 plants that process more than 1.3 million metric tons annually, with an additional two plants under construction. FASA Group has approximately 2,400 employees. Darling Ingredients operates 250 plants in 17 countries and repurposes nearly 10% of the world's meat industry waste streams into value-added products, such as green energy, renewable diesel, collagen, fertilizer, animal proteins and meals and pet food ingredients. Darling Ingredients completes acquisition of Brazil’s FASA Group Stellar technology boosts efficiency of microalgae processing The Stellar technology will be used to increase the efficiency of microalgae processing at SEC’s Urban Microalgae Protein project laboratory in Singapore. Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) and Swiss Bühler Group announce the deployment of Bühler’s state-of-the-art Stellar Gemini system at SEC’s Urban Microalgae Protein project laboratory in Singapore. The Stellar technology, a world first developed by Bühler, is based on nanosecond pulsed electric fields. It will be used to increase the efficiency of microalgae processing. With its installation, the Urban Microalgae Protein project reaches a new milestone. The SEC’s Urban Microalgae Protein project aims to develop a sustainable, urban single-cell protein production platform and microalgae-based food concepts with taste and nutrition profiles that meet consumer preferences. This three-year project is based in Singapore, and is supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program. “The Stellar technology will enable us to deliver industry relevant results to improve the eco-efficiency and productivity of microalgae supply chains by establishing a pulsed electric field (PEF)-based biorefinery as part of the Urban Microalgae Protein project,” says Dr Iris Haberkorn, project lead and senior scientist at SEC. The first of its kind, Stellar technology uses nanosecond pulsed electric field processing to grow single-cell cultures, like microalgae, at a faster rate without biologically altering them. Stellar Gemini is the name of the device that enables the application of these pulses.
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