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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-117232"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAR"
cik: "0000916540"
company_name: "DARLING INGREDIENTS INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T01:12:53.946341+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darling Ingredients and Tessenderlo to combine collagen/gelatin businesses into Nextida JV; Darling to own 85%

## Summary
- Darling to hold 85% ownership in new company Nextida; Tessenderlo 15%; no cash exchanged.
- Combined annual revenue expected ~$1.5B; total gelatin/collagen capacity ~200k metric tons across 23 facilities.
- Transaction subject to due diligence, definitive agreements, and regulatory approvals; anticipated close in 2026.
- Combines Rousselot (Darling) and PB Leiner (Tessenderlo) brands; creates platform for accelerated product development.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-117232
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAR
- cik: 0000916540
- company_name: DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000119312525117232/0001193125-25-117232-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000119312525117232/d33757d8k.htm

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