Chick-fil-A will supply Irving-headquartered Darling Ingredients with its delicious chicken grease — not for human consumption but for fuel.
Darling Ingredients’ core business is producing specialty ingredients like blood plasma, collagen, animal hides and bone-based protein that are needed to make products including pet food, soaps, leather and other consumer products.
The company is also part of a joint venture with Valero called Diamond Green Diesel that turns waste fat into renewable fuel that releases less emissions than fossil fuels. For the last several years, Darling Ingredients has been turning hundreds of millions of pounds of food manufacturing byproducts like chicken grease and other fats into alternative fuels.
