More than forty years ago, well before the concept of circular economy was coined, some visionary businessmen started to think how to take advantage of the products “rejected” by the food supply chain as a new source of material. This was how the rendering industry was born: to transform slaughterhouses by-products into products that would be useful to other industries. The business translation of the old saying: “We use everything but the oink”.
In ECB we still use poultry waste (everything but the cluck) and transform it into raw material for petfood, aquaculture feed and biodiesel.
The plant in Treviglio (BG) produces meal and fat from poultry waste. Every year our trucks take more than 13,000 trips to collect animal waste and deliver freshly slaughtered raw material to Treviglio, in order for it to be processed within 24 hours from the time of slaughter. The plant can transform 110,000 tons/year of poultry viscera and carcasses into standard poultry meal, special meal with low ash content and poultry fat. In Treviglio, at the company’s headquarters, more than 60 people of 8 different nationalities are employed as factory workers, office employees and truck drivers of the subsidiary transport company that handles the transportation of raw material.
The plant in Sorgà (VR) processes poultry feathers and can transform approximately 100,000 tons/year of product. 20 people of 3 different nationalities work in the production plant of Sorgà. Female employment in ECB, excluding production and logistic departments, reaches 40%.
We produce poultry meal with different levels of protein, up to the Low Ash meal with 70% protein level, particularly suited for first class petfood kibbles.
Poultry meal Poultry meal Low Ash
Commonly used in aquaculture, this kind of meal brings the advantage of a very high level of protein with an excellent quality/price ratio.
Poultry blood meal
The hydrolization process breaks the bonds in the keratin of the feathers and allows for the creation of high percentages of protein. ECB uses a vertical hydrolizer, a true guarantee of high quality.
Feather meal
The fat produced by a plant using wet rendering technology has a very low acidity level and is among the preferred ones for animal feed and for all the industries that require sustainable fat.
Poultry fat
