Around 1955, Mr. Bruno Mini and his wife Mrs. Luigia Crespi, Italian immigrants who had lived in Venezuela for eight years, establish the first rendering operation in Caracas, setting up equipment to turn animal by-products into useful products for industry.

Back then, the city of Caracas had a population of under half a million people. The meat sold in butcher shops and markets came from the city’s two existing slaughterhouses: the Coche and the Caracas slaughterhouses.

Mr. and Mrs. Mini themselves would gather the animal by-products from these two slaughterhouses on a daily basis. This raw material was processed in cookers with heat produced by burning firewood. The fat was thus separated from the rest of the material, and the resulting white tallow was sold to the soap industry. The remaining material (made up of bone and muscle) had no industrial use then and was therefore discarded.

During the ensuing decade, the industry spawned the birth of suppliers who would gather the animal by-products at their source (butcher shops, markets and slaughterhouses) and sell them to processing companies. These suppliers thus provided highly useful sanitation and transport services.

With time and much hard work, Mini Bruno’s human and financial resources grew. New processing plants were built; new raw materials began to be processed; new end products were obtained and sold; a truck fleet was acquired for raw material collection and end product distribution; and a laboratory was set up to ensure quality and analyze the target physical and chemical properties of the products sold.

Today, Mini Bruno Sucesores processes several hundred metric tons of animal by-product every day. The company employs state-of-the-art processing plants and produces raw material for the animal-feed and pet food industry, the soap industry, and the fats and lubricants industry.