[Raw material availability and the erection of regional public rendering plants in the Socialist Republic of Croatia (author's transl)].

The raw-material basis of the rendering plants in Croatia is very solid. The lower average volume of material which is being processed anually in the 7 existing plants of the closed and semi-open type is estimated at 57000 tons roughly. This estimate is too low under the present circumstances and the more so in view of the future because of the constant expansion of the cattle-breeding and the meat industry. During the first phase, two rendering plants, one in the macro-area of Zagreb and another at Osijek, were erected and organised in keeping with the prevailing technological principles (dry system) and laid out for a capacity of 100 tons a day. The future erection of a third plant between the macro-area of Rijeka and Split is under study.