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Recycled Gelatin and Adhesives

One raw material that LD Davis uses in its animal glue products is pharmaceutical scrap gelatin. Before the 1970’s, most gelatin used in animal glue, or protein adhesive, was extracted from the bones and hides of pigs and cattle. Today, a significant portion of the gelatin used in protein adhesives is from pharmaceutical and nutritional scrap gelatin, either in soft gel netting or hard capsule form.

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Happy Valentine's Day from LD Davis

It’s Valentine’s Day…. what do you love?

(Well, tomorrow is at least!)

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Animal Glue Manufacturing Safety- Part Two

Big congratulations to our Monroe, NC animal glue manufacturing plant! When we wrapped up the 2011 Hazard Communication Report (with no recordable incidents for the past year) we also hit a milestone of 8.5 years at LD Davis’s manufacturing plant without any lost time accidents in the workplace. Safety protocol at our animal glue manufacturing plant is key to keeping everything running smoothly. The responsibility (and congratulations) for this mostly falls with Barry Barto, our Operations Manager of 17 years. Meet Barry here on our YouTube Channel!

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Animal Glue Manufacturing Plant Safety

Big congratulations to our Monroe, NC animal glue manufacturing plant!

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Groundhog Day!

It’s Groundhog Day!

Reports say that good old Phil saw his shadow, predicting six more weeks of winter….we’ll see!

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