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Coast Reduction Ltd. is a Vancouver based, family
owned and operated business with its roots extending
back over seventy years to a time when its founder owned
and operated a butcher shop.
Now the largest independent
renderer in Western Canada,
West Coast Reduction conducts operations from
facilities in Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary,
Lethbridge, Vancouver and Nanaimo.
From its
facilities,
West Coast Reduction provides a
necessary service to farms, feedlots, restaurants,
butcher shops, super markets and processors of beef,
pork, poultry and fish products intended for human
consumption. This
necessary service includes:
- The provision of containers to receive meat
and fish by-products deemed unsuitable for human
consumption.
- The regular pick-up and transfer of these
by-products to the nearest rendering plant where
they are processed into useful rendered
finished products
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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
yellow 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.
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