News on Chips and Snacks from Oceania

Choosing the right accumulation system for your application

July 25, 2017

Choosing the right accumulation system for your production line

Accumulation systems let your processing line run without interruption, while delivering the steady flow of product your packaging equipment needs for peak efficiency. But with a range of different accumulation systems available, which is the right one?

June 13, 2017

Potato Product Fryers 101: Selecting the right Fryer Design

Potato Product Fryers 101: Selecting the right fryer design is one of the most critical decisions in potato processing. Don Giles, Director of Sales, Processing Systems at Heat and Control explains how specialised fryer designs improve productivity and quality.

April 20, 2017

Get Uniform Chip Size with a Heat and Control Potato Grader-Halver

The Heat and Control all-in-one Grader-Halver is designed to grade potatoes according to size and halve the product sorted if it is larger than the predetermined size.

Heartland Potato Chips (NZ) expands range with Premium Crafted Crisps

February 28, 2017

Heartland Potato Chips (NZ) expands product range with Premium Crafted Crisps

New Zealand potato chip manufacturer Heartland Potato Chips just launched a range of premium crafted kettle chips in four flavours.

February 13, 2017

Heat and Control fryers on their way to double snack manufacturer’s capacity

Processing and packaging equipment manufacturer Heat and Control has recently helped another snack food processing company increase their production capacities with the delivery of a ‘snack’ product processing system.

January 15, 2017

DK Potatoes Purple Potato Chips get rave reviews

Potato Farmer Peter Scott from the Otways region in Victoria, Australia expects to make up to a million packages of purple potato chips this year.

New Zealand Potato Chips market grows 15 percent, driven by premium segment

October 27, 2016

New Zealand Potato Chips market is growing 15 percent annually, driven by premium segment

According to Potatoes New Zealand, domestic sales of potato chips have grown by about 15 percent each year over the past three. New Zealanders spent NZD 157 million (USD 112 million ) on potato chips in 2015

September 13, 2016

Make healthier, better tasting potato chips with this Pulsed Electric Field unit

Using the process of Pulse Electric Field (PEF) technology, the E-FLO™ Electroporation processing system by Heat and Control makes it possible for chips manufacturers to produce healthier and crunchier potato chips.

August 30, 2016

Snack Brands Australia to be acquired by Universal Robina Corporation of the Phillipines

Universal Robina Corporation (URC), one of the largest branded consumer food and beverage product companies in the Philippines, is to buy Snack Brands Australia, according to a Snack Brands Australia statement dated August 17.

Australian customers unhappy with smaller Pringles Packing from Malaysian Plant

June 18, 2016

Australian customers unhappy with smaller Pringles Packing from new Malaysian Plant

The Daily Mail Australia reports that Pringles chips - sold in cardboard cylinders - have shrunk in size in Australia and are being sold in a deceptively similar package of the same height but with a smaller diameter.

March 02, 2016

Growing demand for Vacuum Fryer Technology in the Snack Industry

Heat and Control has helped a snack manufacturer take processing capabilities to a new level with another delivery of the
company’s innovative vacuum fryer technology, the Unitized Vacuum Fryer (UVF)

September 30, 2015

The Smith's Snackfood Company is to close its Western Australian chips plant

Smith's Snackfood Company said it will close the its chip manufacturing plant in Canning Vale (Western Australia) next year.

August 23, 2015

Heartland potato chips a family affair

Raymond Bowan's passion for potatoes and chips has seen Heartland Potato Chips take on the big boys at their own game. The company has just launched a new product range - flat cut chips, and has in New Zealand an 8 per cent market share.

August 19, 2015

British Tyrrells Crisps acquired Australian Yarra Valley Snack Foods

UK chip brand, Tyrrells Potato Crisps Ltd, has acquired the Australian company Yarra Valley Snack Foods, producer of the Thomas Chipman Organic Chips range.

July 14, 2015

Bluebird Foods (New Zealand) is recalling batches of its Original Cut Potato Chips

Bluebird Foods (New Zealand) is recalling batches of its bags of potato chips after finding some may contain plastic pieces.

January 25, 2015

Heartland Potato Chips benefits from potato shortage New Zealand.

Timaru's Heartland Potato Chips is benefiting from the nationwide potato shortage in New Zealand.

Potatoes New Zealand chief executive Champak Mehta (Courtesy Nigel Moffiet)

November 30, 2014

Potato shortage in New Zealand shuts down chip producers

There's a major potato shortage in New Zealand and it's big enough that it's forced chip producers to temporarily stop production in the countdown to Christmas.

Skinns (75 % less fat than regular chips)

August 07, 2014

Potato Magic faces liquidation

Administrators of the New South Wales potato chip business Potato Magic Australia recommend winding the company up and placing it into liquidation.

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