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Key Technology announces its new potato strips Sort-to-Grade feature for all belt-driven G6 optical sorters: Manta, Optyx, and Tegra. The feature was presented at the NWFPA exhibition in January. The patented, software-driven ...

A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech potatoes.  In May, tuber processing giant J R Simplot asked ...

Fries are undeniably one of the most important food products in the word. As health-conscious consumers are continuously increasing in numbers, the producers are focusing more and more on providing healthy fries. ...

The number of people who prefer snacks rather than meals is increasing and producers are turning to consumers in order to develop new flavours and products. Evie Serventi reports. The biggest change ...

Invisible inefficiencies, says Heat and Control’s Clark Hicks, can severely hamper the productivity of a packaging operation. In this article for Potato Processing International, he examines ways to improve efficiency. In this ...

Over 35,000 finished pounds/hour (16,000 kg/hr) of crispy batter-coated french fries will be produced for fast-food lovers using Heat and Control’s latest batter applicator and multi-zone fryer system. The batter applicator applies ...

Ishida Europe is introducing an enhancement to its market-leading Atlas range of snack food bagmakers which the company says will increase its already-high speeds on Potato Chips by a further 35% to ...

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 205.9 points in July 2013, 4 points (nearly 2 percent) below its revised value for June and 7 points (or 3.3 percent) lower than in July 2012. The ...

Heat and Control’s new FastBack FDXM Force Displacement drives are now 40 per cent smaller than comparable inertia drive horizontal motion conveyors and convey up to 2,500 pounds This, says the company,  makes ...

Potato Council’s summer ‘Many Faces of Potatoes’ campaign has been hailed a major success, following positive industry and consumer feedback. The impact of activity, which included national TV advertising and a consumer-facing ...

The North-Western European Potato Growers (NEPG) has issued an updated estimate of planted area for the 2013 crop (at the start of July). Based on first estimates and survey work the NEPG ...

It may surprise many people to learn that China has been the world's largest producer of potatoes since 1993. But it should not be entirely unexpected. The Chinese diet has changed drastically ...