# Case study: Meat rendering facility enhances tallow recovery process, increases revenue | Water Tech Online

> A Midwest meat processing plant lost tallow through excess fat in stick water, with more than seven percent fat returned to treatment systems. The case study describes how adding a lactic acid step and changing separation helped the plant meet the two percent free fatty acid spec for inedible tallow.

- Date: 2024-04-08 · published 2024-04-08T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/30851-case-study-meat-rendering-facility-enhances-tallow-recovery-process-increases
- Commodities: [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md)

## Why it matters

This is a plant-level processing case with no new market cause, so it has little direct effect on feed or commodity prices.

## Sources

- watertechonline.com: https://www.watertechonline.com/wastewater/article/55002238/kurita-america-case-study-meat-rendering-facility-enhances-tallow-recovery-process-increases-revenue

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