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The media already heralded the news in May: Lynx spotted in Belgium… and how right they were! Not only was one of the actual predators seen prowling in Flanders, but AVR was ...

The warm and dry weather of recent months has caused a commotion in the potato sector in Northern Europe.Many growers suffered damages due to the heat and dry weather, resulting in plots ...

The North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) report that by now it is clear that the potato production this year in North-Western Europe will be much lower than average and that quality issues ...

In Belgium, the continuing drought and especially the extreme heat is increasingly disastrous for the upcoming potato harvest and threatens to cause havoc for processors as well. Chips manufacturer Roger&Roger (Croky): already ...

The 19th edition of INTERPOM PRIMEURS will be held on Sunday 25 to Tuesday 27 November 2018 in Kortrijk Xpo (Belgium). INTERPOM PRIMEURS is the most sharply focused indoor trade fair in ...

Based upon the latest NEPG (North-Western European Potato Growers) calculations the consumption potato area in the combined 5 North-Western European countries is 595.587 ha, an increase of 1% compared to last season. ...

The annual general meeting of Belgapom, the Belgian potato trade and processing industry association, has appointed Marc Van Herreweghe as its chairman. He succeeds Marc Seru who in accordance with the articles ...

Today, McDonald’s announced a phased rollout of paper straws in all 1,361 McDonald’s restaurants in the UK and Ireland with completion set for 2019 as well as plans to test alternatives to ...

The NEPG (North-Western European Potato Growers) estimate that the growers in the 5 leading potato growing countries will plant 0,4% more potatoes than last year. There is still a large amount of ...

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, announces the completion of its facility expansion in Beusichem, the Netherlands. The upgrade increases Key’s production capacity at this location by ...

Organisations representing potato farmers in Belgium and France, ABS (Algemeen Boerensyndicaat, Flanders), FWA (Walloon Federation of Agriculture) and UNPT (National Union of Potato Producers, France), jointly started Interreg project GEPOS to look ...

United Kingdom potato trade saw strong performance from its processed potato sectors in the first seven months of the 2017/18 marketing season. Trade of frozen potato products (*HS200410), by far the largest ...

The EuroBlight project is examining the ongoing evolution of the potato late blight pathogen (Phytophthora infestans).In 2017, almost 1500 samples from 16 countries in Europe were genotyped.The results indicate that new clones ...

Potato processor Agristo has invested EUR200m in a new French fry factory in Wielsbeke, Belgium, hoping to enter the top five processors, following this strategic move. “This is the most innovative French ...

The demand for complete potato processing lines has increased over the past few years and with an unprecedented amount of new lines installed including green-field projects. Worldwide, a lot of new potato ...

McCain Foods Limited has announced plans to expand its capacity at its plant in Coaldale, Alberta, Canada. This investment will bring additional production capacity to the French fry manufacturing facility, helping to ...

Key Technology has been selected to equip a new production line at Lutosa, a subsidiary of McCain Foods Limited, with a complete solution of their optical inspection and material handling equipment that ...

Fifteen percent of Brussels’ friteries surveyed selling potato fries with high levels of known carcinogen acrylamide, according to a snapshot survey of potato fries sold in twenty shops. A joint investigation conducted ...

Global demand for products from processed potatoes, particularly frozen fries, leads to the necessity of building a plant in France, said Arnaud Delacour, president of Union Nationale des Producteurs de Pommes de ...

The UK’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union has dominated the headlines since the end of June, but what will the effect on the potato industry be?  By Cedric Porter of World ...

Tong Engineering is set to showcase its latest vegetable barrel washer at this year’s Interpom potato, fruit and vegetable event in Belgium. The company will be displaying a high capacity stainless steel ...

Dutch equipment specialist Sormac made its name as an expert in solutions for potato peeling. The company has been building on this knowhow for almost a century, leading to a portfolio that ...

Processed potatoes (mainly frozen chips and crisps) were worth EUR10b or 1.2% of the overall value of EU food and beverage industry output in 2014, while processing is concentrated in five countries, ...

 The Nedato is a cooperative of 500 farmers, which has been producing quality potatoes to customers across the world for over 50 year. Recently the company chose to implement a sorting solution ...

The potato was domesticated together with sweet potato and other Andean crops, possibly up to 7000 years ago, although the natives of South America had already been eating the wild potatoes for ...