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RWL Holdings Ltd (PEI Potato Solutions)

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RWL Holdings - operating as PEI Potato Solutions (PPS) - is a company that offers services to local (potato) producers including: cleaning, drying, grading and load optimization.

More specifically, the company provides a full potato wash service to farmers of PEI before the potatoes are sold to Cavendish Farms. The service is provided so that farmers can achieve a higher grade when selling their product to Cavendish Farms.

This service includes washing, sorting, separating rot, as well as metal and foreign material removal.

The company is a partnership owned by Kinkora Holdings Inc., Valley Grove Enterprises Ltd and Hilltop Produce Ltd.

The facility opened in January 2014 and was used by 12 farmers in its first year of operation.

News for this Company

Potato-washing facility to pay $1,000 fine over 'regretted' waste water spill
January 25, 2021

PEI Potato washing facility fined over waste water spill

The owners of a potato facility in New Annan confirm they will not dispute a CAD 1,000 fine they received following a spill of waste water at the end of 2020.
Sherlock Separator cleans up potatoes for processing at PEI Potato Solutions
February 18, 2018

Sherlock Separator cleans up potatoes for processing at PEI Potato Solutions

Terrence McEachern of the Guardian spoke with Romana Roberts and Chris Hunt of PEI Potato Solutions on the Sherlock Separator they recently installed for the removal of foreign objects and defects, such as surface scabs or rot.
PEI Potato Solutions receives government support as the company invests in the latest sorting equipment
January 21, 2018

PEI Potato Solutions receives government support as the company invests in the latest sorting technology

The Government of Canada supports the investment in a Sherlock Separator potato sorter by RWL Holdings LTD (PEI Potato Solutions), a potato washing and sorting facility to optimize potatoes for processing prior to delivery to Cavendish Farms.
From left to right: Austin Roberts, co-owner of RWL Holdings Ltd, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea and Agriculture and Forestry Minister George Webster (Courtesy Journal Pioneer).
July 30, 2014

PEI Dept of Environment shuts down potato wash plant RWL Holdings Ltd.

Concerns over the quality of the waste water from a potato wash facility has resulted in the P.E.I. Department of Environment shutting down the operation.