On September 28 and 29, Darling Ingredients in Son (Netherlands) hosted an internal meeting with a unique purpose – welcoming and integrating 80 newly hired employees in Europe, across all the brands under the Darling Ingredients umbrella. This gathering served as an essential event to facilitate learning, network building, and alignment with the core values that are at the heart of the company's success.

Catarina Ferreira Da Silva explains her job title switch at Rousselot.

Gelatin has a long and varied history in medicine, going back as far as 1834. Nowadays it’s a common material used in a number of pharmaceutical and biomedical applications around the world. With its well-established track record of versatility and reliability, it’s no surprise that gelatin is now playing an important role in groundbreaking regenerative medicine where, for example, it is used to produce hydrogels that support cell growth. In this article, we’re going to cover some of the key moments in gelatin’s pharma-medical history and take a look at how it’s used in pharma and medical applications.

Type the word ‘innovation’ into any search engine and the number of hits you get, within seconds, will exceed several billion. Innovation is a buzzword. So, if you’re as serious about it as we are, how do you take innovation to the next level? What does innovating innovation look like? How can we harness its power to add value in areas and in ways we are not yet today?