Ulster Farm By-Products

Originally established in 1952 by a group of local farmers, Ulster Farm By-Products Ltd (UFBP) was formed to create a farmer owned and controlled company to process fallen livestock in Northern Ireland. As part of the Board of Directors' plans to develop the organisation the co-operative was renamed Glenfarm Holdings Limited. The collection, rendering and processing facilities where transferred into a subsidiary limited company and took the co-operative's original name, Ulster Farm By-Products Ltd which is well known to the agri-food sector. The initial production process commissioned in 1956 was established to process just 50 tonnes per week. There have been many changes and expansions to this processing facility over the last fifty years, with the company's commitment to sector shown with an investment in two state of the art rendering plants; built in 2004, with a capacity to process over 3,600 tonnes per week. The original business was formed to provide an outlet for fallen stock on farms; today UFBP provides a collection and disposal service to the entire food production cycle, maintaining this service of fallen stock collection but with an expanded service to cover abattoir collections, carcase de-boning and retail packaging operations, right through to butchers shops, independent retailers and large supermarkets chains.