RenderThe International Magazine of Rendering April 2016 Market Report Prices are down but demand remains strong Food Waste Recycling Challenges West Coast Renderers Policy Matters to California Biodiesel Haarslev Business Areas tProtein tEnvironment tAfter-Sales and Service Haarslev Industries Replacement Rotors Haarslev Industries is the world’s largest manufacturer of equipment for the rendering industry. Our replacement rotors are built to the highest standard and the performance will in many cases exceed the original factory specifications. Haarslev Inc. 9700 NW Conant Avenue, Kansas City, MO 64153 Tel. (816) 799-0808 tFax (816) 799-0812 E-mail: [email protected] tWeb: www.haarslev.com (SFFOTCPSP /$t#FMMFWJMMF ,4 1FSIBN ./t4IFMMNBO (" APPLIED KNOWLEDGE At Kemin, we know what works and how to apply it. Best of all, we can prove it. Through our knowledge and experience, we have built valuable relationships that allow us to provide unique product solutions and services to the rendering industry. From our Naturox® and PET-OX® Brand Antioxidants to custom application equipment to our Customer Service Laboratory, you can trust the Kemin brand to go above and beyond. Contact a Kemin rendering expert for more information. 1-877-890-1462 WWW.KEMIN.COM © Kemin Industries, Inc. and its group of companies 2014. All rights reserved. ® ™ Trademarks of Kemin Industries, Inc., U.S.A. Contents April 2016 Volume 45, Number 2 Features 10 Market Report Prices are down but demand remains strong. 16 Food Waste Recycling Challenges West Coast renderers. 18 Battle for Meat Products In the Golden State. On the Cover A look at how the US rendering 20 Focus Shifting Away industry fared in 2015. p. 10 From biofuels in Europe? Photo by Don Schimmel www.donschimmelphotography.com 42 Policy Matters To California biodiesel. Departments 6 View from Washington Editorial Offices More of the same in an election year. 1621 Glen Dr. Placerville, CA 95667 8 Newsline Phone: (530) 306-6792 Training in preparation for FSMA compliance. Fax: (530) 644-8429 [email protected] 23 National Renderers Association www.rendermagazine.com Membership directory. Editor and Publisher Tina Caparella 46 From the Association Associate Editor Lindsay O’Connor Rendering and politics: NRA’s yearly fly-in. 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Periodical postage paid for at 58 People, Places, and... Camino, CA, and additional mailing offices. © 2016 All rights reserved. 60 Classifieds Printed in USA POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Render, P.O. Box 1319, Camino, CA 95709-1319. 4 April 2016 Render www.rendermagazine.com Rendertorial A leer sent by “snail mail” brought a flash from the past recently – a copy of the December 1975 cover of Render. The individual who sent it received the magazine 40 years ago as an employee of a large rendering company and he wished to restart his subscription all these years later. Of course we signed him right up! The feature in that parcular issue so long ago was “economic review,” which today is called the “market report” and highlighted in every April issue. The cover image of an old calculator and handwrien bank checks piqued this editor’s interest about what the industry was facing four decades earlier. Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult to unearth a copy here at Render’s offices. Editor Frank Burnham’s words depicted 1975 as “perhaps the most tumultuous and trying in the history of the US rendering industry.” Adjecves used by industry insiders to describe that year included “uncertain,” “disappoinng,” and “dismal.” Besides a struggling consumer economy, the cost of doing business for renderers jumped 20 to 30 percent – mostly due to new air and water regulaons – Asian markets “went to pot” while other foreign markets floundered, and production dropped significantly. Prices for tallow were as low as 11½ cents per pound while meat and bone meal dropped to $125 per ton. On the plus side, domesc consumpon of tallow was the highest it had been in almost 30 years. Fast forward 40 years and renderers seemed to be challenged once again. Fat prices are down 50 percent from their highs just four years ago, export markets have declined, and West Coast renderers are losing fat and bone material to a new “food waste” movement. Average prices for tallow were 26 cents per pound while meat and bone meal was $368 per ton. On the bright side, demand for rendered products remains high, raw material supplies are on the upswing due to heavier livestock animals, and renderers remain united to bale the challenges coming their way. So whether it is 1975 or 2015, the trials and tribulaons of rendering will continue and Render will be here to cover it all. R www.rendermagazine.com Render April 2016 5 View from Washington By Steve Kopperud, SLK Strategies More of the Same in an Election Year As you read this, a July 18, 2016, deadline is looming. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), chair of the Budget Commiee, That is when the United States (US) Congress will effecvely admitted he will continue to play with the numbers this disappear for most of the summer and a good chunk of the summer but will not be producing a formal Senate budget. autumn to tend to the business of polical party nominang On the House side, the conservave wing of the Republican convenons and November elecons. The common “wisdom” membership is pushing to hold the line on any increase in in Washington, DC, is that if legislative business is not discreonary spending unless lawmakers are willing to cut concluded by the me lawmakers flee the city in July, most entlement programs – Medicare, Social Security, veterans’ of the unfinished business will be punted into either the post- benefits, and so forth – by an equal amount over the next two elecon lame duck session or the 115th Congress convening years. However, the far-right House Freedom Caucus opposes in January 2017. the move and wants to simply reduce overall discreonary For the full House of Representaves and one-third of the spending rather than hold the line at FY 2016 levels in exchange Senate, the primary goal is reelecon in November, meaning for cuts elsewhere. to the extent polically possible, all controversial issues must As to the actual spending bills, House and Senate be avoided. For 100 percent of Congress and five White House leadership have vowed to return to “regular order” in their aspirants, it comes down to who is in polical charge of the handling of FY 2017 appropriaons. This means the respecve federal government when the dust seles in November. In appropriations committees have begun the conventional a perfect GOP world – and based on the numbers – control process of listening to various secretaries and agency heads translates to a Republican president and a Republican- explain why they need more money, and these commiees controlled Congress. To the Democrats, the numbers tell the will then go through the process of approving the dozen party its goal is to take back the Senate while pung one of bills. History tells us “regular order” is at best aspiraonal. their own in the White House for another four years. Congress has enacted all 12 appropriaons bills only four mes However, while 535 lawmakers and one former Secretary since 1977, and the last me lawmakers did what they were of State chase votes, industry broadly is increasingly concerned supposed to do was in 1997. about just how much legislave work will get done this year. While some of the spending measures – military and Among issues hanging fire are several closely watched by the homeland security for instance – may see a floor vote in both rendering industry. chambers, most will not. What Congress will inevitably wind At the top of the list is fiscal year (FY) 2017 federal up doing, because it is an elecon year and lawmakers hate spending and whether Congress will fully fund the Market explaining spending in an elecon year, is cobble together yet Access Program and the Foreign Market Development another connuing resoluon that will keep the government program. Second on the spending list is how much money the operang past September 30, the end of the fiscal year, and Food and Drug Administraon, US Department of Agriculture likely well into December. That means the heavy li ing – the FY (USDA), and Environmental Protecon Agency (EPA) will get 2017 omnibus spending bill – will be slapped together during and how Congress will tell them to spend it. The answer to the post-elecon/end-of-session lame duck. The spending the first concern is “yes,” but the answer to the second is numbers will look remarkably like the omnibus spending bill unknown. enacted last December. On the money side, in a perfect procedural world, first House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) sll dreams of doing Congress enacts a FY 2017 budget resoluon and then it enacts some form of federal tax reform this year.