Martin Lishman Ltd designs and manufactures specialist equipment for the potato business, with a particular emphasis on quality control, post-harvest handling, and storage monitoring. The company's potato solutions are intended for usage at the farm, storage facilities, and processing input sites, allowing growers and processors to monitor and manage critical quality characteristics such as dry matter, glucose content, fry color, temperature, and mechanical damage.
Its product portfolio aids decision-making along the potato value chain, from harvesting and storage to processing suitability. Impact sensors, hot boxes, and dry matter testing equipment are used to evaluate bruising, storage behavior, and processing performance, while monitoring systems aid to maintain appropriate storage conditions.
Martin Lishman's potato equipment is commonly used to increase yield quality, decrease waste, optimize processing results, and assure market conformity. The solutions are appropriate for fresh market, processing (chips, fries), and seed potato businesses, and provide useful tools for routine quality testing and crop assessment.
It is a family-run company established by the late Martin Lishman in 1975, the business is now managed by Gavin and Carol Lishman. They are located in the town of Bourne, in the main arable area of the United Kingdom. Their products are sold throughout the UK and exported all over the World. Martin Lishman has pioneered several types of farm equipment such as Pile-Dry Pedestals and Fans, for cooling and drying stored crops. They have become one of the most important organisation providing methods for UK farms and is used worldwide.
Product Portfolio:
Harvesting & Packing:
- TuberLog – Electronic impact and bruise monitoring for harvested potatoes
- Harvester Mister – Dust suppression system for harvest operations
Dry Matter Measurement:
- Dry Matter Field Kit – Field-ready testing for potato dry matter,
- Zeal Manual Hydrometer – Manual dry matter measurement,
- Weltech Digital Hydrometer – Digital solution for precise dry matter testing
Quality Testing:
- Potato HotBox – Storage simulation and quality testing,
- Chip Cutter Set – Standardized cutting for fry quality tests
- Chip Fryer – Batch frying for assessing fry colour and quality
- French Fry Colour Chart – Standard reference for fry colour grading
- Potato Sizing Squares – Accurate size assessment of tubers
- Potato Temperature Monitoring – Monitoring temperature in storage and transit
- Glucolis Blue Sugar Testing – Rapid sugar content testing for processing suitability
