The company produces various finished products, such as animal blood meal, porcine meal, poultry by-product meal, feather meal, meat and bone meal, mixed fish meal, herring meal, fish oil, poultry fat, yellow grease, bleachable fancy tallow, extra fancy tallow, technical tallow, and top white tallow. Biodiesel is also available from recycled cooking oils and animal feed fat or yell
ow grease. West Coast Reduction provides storage and shipping services to producers of bulk oils, as well as storage, shipping, refining, and blending services to packer renderers. Used cooking oil pickup services are available year round in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Finished products are offered for sale to feed mills, pet food manufacturers, fish feed manufacturers, soap manufacturers, and the industrial users of tallow in North America, Central America, and Asia. Animal hides are also available through dealers in North America, Europe, and Asia. Each week, West Coast Reduction renders a combined total of more than 10,000 tonnes of beef, pork, poultry and fish by-products, referred to as raw materials. This volume of raw materials is enough to fill 1,000 trucks each week and is rendered without delay to limit odour and decay. Rendering reduces raw material volume by approximately 50% and the finished products resulting from rendering are inert, stable and safe for a variety of uses. Land filling of raw materials is generally not permitted and is, in any event, not feasible because land filling does not reduce volume except by decomposition and decay. Decomposing materials, unless buried, smell and have the potential to attract vermin and spread disease. Rendering is a recycling process which involves converting raw materials into useful finished products by first cooking the raw materials and then pressing oil (tallow) out of rendered products before milling them. The cooking or reduction process is done at high temperatures in large, enclosed continuous plants designed to minimize cooking odours while inactivating pathogens and evaporating moisture. Cooking odours, emitted from the rendering process are scrubbed or passed through a thermal oxidizer before being discharged to the environment. Evaporated moisture is subject to municipally monitored waste water treatment procedures designed to remove undissolved organic matter before being discharged as water into city sewers. West Coast Reduction's plants operate under permits issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and each plant is required to comply with local, provincial and federal health, safety and environmental standards. Quality assurance is achieved through the universal implementation of a custom designed hazard analysis quality assurance program (HACCP). HACCP is designed to monitor and provide regular daily feedback on operating standards and procedures and serves to meet finished product customer standards and verify compliance with regulatory requirements.
