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Everyone makes mistakes. If you’re a print magazine editor, however, your mistakes are immortalized in the archives forever. Working on a magazine can be a humbling experience because there has never been a perfect the words, a typo will invariably slip past details that go into publishing a magazine.
in the December issue of Render. This was the kind of mistake you find at If you follow Render on social media, you got the news that our longtime former editor, Tina Caparella, was recognized during the North American service to the industry. Unfortunately, that news did not make the jump to our
Tina is known throughout the inter- national rendering industry for her stewardship of this magazine and love for the rendering community. You can read about her remarkable career and why NARA honored her with the 2025 Don Franco Award on page 23. She was gracious both in her acceptance of the honor and my sincere apology about the oversight.
In this issue featuring biofuels content, Ron Kotrba, our associate editor, takes on the challenge of uncovering the mysteries around feedstock traceability supply chain.
You’ll also find our first in a regular series on leadership, which is a topic that was suggested by NARA’s experience working with Fortune 500 companies, discusses what empathy is and is not, and why she believes it is a crucial skill in modern leadership.
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