Four delicious potato chip flavours, inspired by the Tastes of Canada, took the chip aisle by storm this summer hoping to be named the next great Lay’s potato chip flavour. ...
The winner of this year’s British Potato Industry Award not only has an illustrious and successful career in potatoes but has worked tirelessly on the industry’s behalf over many years. ...
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is very disappointed by the decision of the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries to completely discontinue disinfection services effective December 31st, 2015. The Board ...
TOMRA Sorting Food has launched a French version of its website to showcase to French-speaking countries the sorting and peeling solutions the company offers. The website has all the features ...
China’s commitment to the potato was very publicly and internationally demonstrated when it hosted the World Potato Congress, July 28-30. There were more than 900 delegates at the congress, two ...
Lamb Weston / Meijer, one of the top-3 producers of processed potato products in Europe and the Middle East and Africa, recently published its third sustainability report. The report highlighted ...
Potato chips industry in Denmark, Norway and Sweden started with the direct influence of the United States of America. Some of the first manufacturers in this region started producing chips ...
Food processing equipment manufacturer JBT has expanded its UK customer service division by recruiting five additional engineers at its Broxburn site to support its continually expanding range of freezing and ...
Utz Quality Foods, Inc. has recently announced the culmination of strategic development work to launch the Utz Specialty Division, which will provide retailers with a range of brands and products ...
Key Technology announces the expansion of its global customer service and support, helping food processors reduce costs, increase uptime, and improve equipment performance with the addition of a new online ...
Uganda has registered a first value addition factory, being the first in potato processing not only in the country, but also in the region. The processing plant built cost more than ...
ConAgra Foods Inc.(CAG), one of North America’s largest packaged food companies,joined with local and regional government dignitaries to celebrate the grand opening of its Lamb Weston potato processing facility in Shangdu, ...
Greenvale, the UK’s leading supplier of fresh potatoes, and renewable energy company, Triodos Renewables Plc, announced the completion of a deal to build a wind turbine. The project developed by ...
Complete and non-destructive inspection at full production volumes is achieved by ensuring optimum functionality of all factors and equipment components involved, from the feed to the optical system, through image ...
Kellogg Company announced that it will build a new snacks manufacturing facility in Malaysia, as part of its recently announced Project K four-year efficiency and effectiveness program. Project K is ...
Take the Baker Perkins Innovation Centre in Peterborough, UK, for example. As well as product development, customers use Baker Perkins’ Innovation Centre facilities to evaluate process technologies for existing products. ...
A new report from PCI Films Consulting forecasts that flexible packaging demand in the Middle East and Africa will grow by around 5% p.a. over the next five years as ...
Being so versatile, potatoes can be processed in numerous ways. Because health is an increasingly important factor regarding food choices, baked potatoes are a popular option. (Guest post) Fully automated ...
Nora Olsen is The Potato Association of America president for 2013-2014. Olsen is a professor and Extension potato specialist at the University of Idaho’s Kimberly Research and Extension Center. Olsen ...
McCain Foods' Aug. 7 announcement that it will invest more than $100 million to expand its Burley potato processing plant was exciting news to Idaho potato farmers. "It's extremely good news ...
The price of potatoes in Brazil reached the highest level in the last 10 years. Farmers say that this increase is due to the reduction in the planted area and ...
McCain Foods USA has announced plans to expand its Burley, Idaho manufacturing plant with the addition of a third production line. “There is an increasing demand for potato products from ...
The Council of Agriculture and Water of the Spanish Region of Murcia estimates this year's potato production to reach 100,027 tonnes;an increase of 27% compared to the previous campaign, according ...
The United States Potato Board (USPB), the nation’s potato marketing organization and the central organizing force in implementing programs that will increase demand for potatoes, named produce industry veteran, Blair ...
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 ...