Legacy

Founded in 1968

CTH was founded in 1968 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, when two businesses managed by the Teijsen and Van den Hengel families decided to join forces. Over the years that followed, this ‘Combinatie Teijsen v.d. Hengel’, CTH for short, steadily grew and became a trusted specialist in collecting, processing, and selling premium natural casings for the sausage industry as well as tasty and nutritional meat by-products.

In the 1980s, CTH moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility in the city of Almere, about 30 km northeast of Amsterdam. Over the years, subsidiaries were launched in Germany, Belgium, Poland, Spain, Portugal, China, the USA, and Brazil. CTH developed into a global company with a strong focus on exports and an extensive network of suppliers and customers all over Europe and on other continents.

Today, CTH is a flexible organization with a complete portfolio of high-quality products to suit a wide range of different products. As a market leader, CTH is always on the move trying to find new opportunities and new products to fulfill the role of a turnkey supplier that today’s markets require.

A part of Darling Ingredients

In 2014, CTH became a part of Darling Ingredients, the world’s largest producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible & inedible organic residuals, as well as being a respected global leader in repurposing. The roots of Darling Ingredients go back to 1882 and the founding of rendering company Ira C. Darling & Company in Chicago, Illinois, which over the years was to evolve into today’s Darling Ingredients.

Over the years, Darling Ingredients has expanded its business from traditional rendering operations to building up a wide range of products and services around the world. Darling now offers a global portfolio of over 400 products and services for the food, feed, fuel, and pharmaceutical industries that are used in businesses and homes across the world every day. In January of 2014, Darling Ingredients expanded its operations to span five continents.

A global leader and innovator

With a legacy over a hundred years old, Darling Ingredients has emerged as a global leader and innovator in the field of sustainable organic ingredients, providing high quality products and services to processing industries around the world. Our critical and environmentally safe solutions for the removal and sustainable use of agricultural, industrial and food by-products help protect the food and feed chains, keep people and animals safe, and benefit people, businesses and the environment.

Learn more about our parent company Darling Ingredients’ 100-year journey of innovation.

Products and a supplier you can trust

At CTH, we carefully select and process all fresh raw materials ourselves. Unlike other producers, we source our materials directly from the slaughter line before processing them at our own facilities. By thus managing the entire supply chain, we can offer you maximum freshness, outstanding quality, full traceability, and sustainability – all at a competitive price. By choosing us as your supplier, you can count on reliable and value-adding natural products from a trusted processor and supplier.

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