Darling Ingredients Inc. of Irving, Texas, announced Friday that it has acquired the assets of Triple-T Foods Arkansas Inc., including a wet pet food ingredient operation in Springdale and a cold storage operation in Rogers.
“Triple-T Foods is an excellent strategic fit with Darling’s growing specialty pet food ingredient portfolio,” Darling Chairman and CEO Randall Stuewe said in a news release.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Triple-T has established a long history of providing quality proteins into the high-end pet food markets, and we look forward to building upon that reputation,” Stuewe said. “We expect this acquisition to be accretive immediately and to add customer depth to our other wet pet food operations in Nebraska and Kentucky.”
Darling is a $3.6 billion publicly traded (NYSE: DAR) producer of ingredients and customized solutions for the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer industries.