Nieuws uit Europa

De aardappeltermijnmarkt beleefde een stormachtig einde van de week. Met een zeer hoge omzet van 942 contracten zakte de termijnprijs terug naar 24,70 euro.

Met de ‘shop in shop’ van Stamppot to go in het tankstation van Berkman Energie Service in Barendrecht kunnen klanten in plaats van een vette hap nu ook kiezen voor stamppot.

Met 6.843.529 ton pakte de afgelopen totale aardappeloogst 337.452 ton lager uit dan vorig seizoen (4,7 procent). Dat blijkt uit opbrengstcijfers van het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS). Het areaal was in 2010 zo’n 3.000 hectare groter dan he...

Scientists at East Malling Research (EMR) - recognised as world experts on water management - have found a way to significantly reduce the amount of water used to grow potatoes commercially, after transferring the knowledge from early work with strawberries.

Bosch Packaging Technology, a leading supplier of holistic packaging and process technology, is changing the company names of its subsidiaries Sigpack Systems AG and Paal Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH

United Biscuits is celebrating another success in its bid to cut waste by eliminating landfill from four of its factories.

Avebe announces the introduction of ETENIA™ NT is a new potato based specialty starch for confectionery.

It’s not every day a new crisp company is born. You tend to think that the market has long ago been sewn up by the likes of Walkers and Kettles, but, make way for Corkers.

Diamond Foods, Inc. today announced a $10 million expansion of its production facility in Norwich, UK to meet increasing demand.

BASF Plant Science has concluded its Amflora cultivation plans for the 2011 season. Amflora, the genetically enhanced potato for use in the starch industry, will this year be cultivated on two hectares of land in Üplingen (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany).

Emsland Group has developed a new range of clean label potato and pea starches that can be used in a range of food applications in place of modified starch.

Net als een aantal weken geleden in België zijn er nu ook aaltjes gevonden in partijen aardappelen afkomstig uit Frankrijk.

Johannes Diepers Landwirtschaft in Sevelen, Germany grows and processes potatoes that are supplied peeled to customers including institutional kitchens, hotels and restaurants. Diepers has been working with Sormac machines for fifteen years.

One of the most prestigious contracts awarded to Kiremko last year was the supply of a turnkey roots vegetable line for the brand new processing and packaging plant for Ultracongelados Virto S.A. in Funes, Navarra, Spain.

In Nederland gebruiken steeds meer cafetaria’s gezond vloeibaar vet voor het bakken van friet.

Yesterday Europatat’s Seed Potato Commission held its first official meeting since the adoption of the new structure of the association.