Potato News from United Kingdom

Jeremy Barraclough, Director of Operations at Biofresh Safestore

June 15, 2024

Storeguard sprout inhibitor now available to the UK Potato Industry

The UK's exclusive distributor of a new method of maintaining the fry colour of potatoes stored in ethylene-applied stores is preparing for its first full season.

HarvestEye secures distributorship in Scotland with Agricar

June 09, 2024

Potato harvest sensor provider HarvestEye appoints new distributor in Scotland

Accelerating its national ambitions within the grower, packer and processor market, machine-learning driven crop insights tool HarvestEye has secured a distributorship in Scotland – teaming with agricultural and machinery supplier Agricar.

John Sedgwick, new Board Chair of the UK Potato Processors’ Association (PPA).

May 23, 2024

Leadership change at the UK Potato Processors Association: John Sedgwick takes helm as Chair

John Sedgwick, the UK Potato Supply Manager at Lamb Weston, has been officially named the new Board Chair of the UK Potato Processors’ Association (PPA).

May 20, 2024

Scorched by foliar fertilization in the past… reasons to try again

The concept of foliar applied preparations is based on science, but when they were initially introduced in the late 1990’s many of the initial products had drawbacks, such as leaf scorch, low active volumes per application, poor uptake and even phytotoxicity.

The latest model of Tong Engineering's UniFill big bag and box filler

May 06, 2024

Worldwide demand for updated UniFill Big Bag and Box Filler by Tong

The latest model of Tong’s popular UniFill big bag and box filler has seen record demand in the first quarter of 2024. The advanced UniFill offers the gentlest filling of both big bags and boxes, resulting in a high capacity and versatile crop filling machine.

Jeremy Barraclough, operations director of Biofresh Safestore

May 06, 2024

Biofresh Safestore to exhibit at SPot Store potato storage event

The UK's leading potato sprout control technology provider has confirmed it is exhibiting at SPot Store on 14th May.

(LR) Trevor Howard, managing director of Fabcon Food Systems and Tomás Vallés, CEO and representing the third generation of TJF

March 20, 2024

Snack equipment manufacturers Fabcon Food Systems and TJF seal partnership deal

British food processing equipment manufacturer Fabcon Food Systems has entered into a partnership with Spanish specialist TJF

Potato supplier seeks alternatives to Maris Piper after floods pushes prices up

March 04, 2024

UK Potato supplier seeks alternatives to Maris Piper after floods push prices up

One of the UK's top potato suppliers is looking for alternatives to the popular Maris Piper due to rising costs and unreliable crops during extreme weather.

Duane Hill with HRH Princess Royal at Haith Group

February 22, 2024

Haith Group honoured with a royal visit

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal was in South Yorkshire and visited equipment manufacturer Haith Group

The 3D layout of the installation, showing the buffer area where it accumulates the cases before palletization.

February 01, 2024

End-of-line automation: Burts Snacks Take the 'Multi-line' Decision

Premium Snacks manufacturer in the United Kingdom, Burts Snacks Ltd, completed one of their single largest investments, with the installation of a complete end of line pack handling and palletising solution from Scott.

January 28, 2024

Pace looks to accelerate growth by targeting USA Potato Packers

A specialist UK manufacturer of automated potato packaging and palletising solutions is targeting the United States as it prepares for growth in 2024.

January 22, 2024

Pringles make a major change to its tube packaging - and says it will prevent crisps from breaking too

Pringles make a major change to its tube packaging - and says it will prevent crisps. Most Britons will be familiar with the famous Pringles tube - but the crisp brand is now making a huge change to its packaging.

January 18, 2024

Calbee UK invests in Fabcon pellet frying and distribution equipment

Global snack producer Calbee has invested in new frying, seasoning and distribution machinery for its Deeside plant.

January 15, 2024

Tong set to showcase handling advancements alongside Verbruggen at LAMMA 2024

Tong Engineering is set to exhibit once again at the UK’s largest farm machinery show LAMMA on January 17 and 18 2024 at the NEC Birmingham.

Farmers will use special rigs to help train the robot AI

January 07, 2024

Farmers are being called on to help train robots to spot slugs and the damage they cause to arable crops.

The ground-breaking trial, set to start in the spring, will equip the 'Slug Sleuths' with special rigs designed to improve the complex machine-learning algorithms used to identify the slimy pests.