News On French Fries and Potato Specialties from Europe

McCain is growing its range of frozen potato productsin the United Kingdom by launching microwaveable baby baked potatoes and the UK's first branded retail sweet potato fries.

With a value chain wide approach, McCain, PepsiCo, SCA, Sodexo, Ardo, Unilever Food Solutions and WWF have joined forces to fight against food waste in the food services sector starting in Europe.

Experts from TOMRA Sorting Food will be advising potato processors about the benefits of an effective product sort at British Potato 2015.

McDonald’s in the United Kingdom is to start sourcing potatoes from British farmers only, as the fast food giant looks to appeal to customers more conscious about where their meals come from.

The improved separator made by Hoegger ensures better quality and yield when separating boiled potatoes and vegetables. In addition, the new technology results in low operating costs, reliable cleaning and straightforward operation.

Last Friday, the expansion of Lamb Weston / Meijer's French Fry factory in Kruiningen was inaugurated by Royal Commissioner Han Polman

La compañía holandesa Caenator puso en marcha, en colaboración con StartLife y la Universidad de Wageningen y Centro de Investigación, una nueva generación de máquinas automáticas expendedoras de papas (o patatas).

Dutch start-up Caenator, in collaboration with StartLife and Wageningen University & Research Centre, presented a new fully automatic french fry vending machine.

Monday morning, the production plant of Clarebout Potatoes in Nieuwkerke (Belgium) was totally destroyed by a major fire.

The AHDB Potatoes ‘Next Generation’ tour kicked off in Yorkshire last month, visiting two progressive Yorkshire based potato processing businesses.

Lamb Weston® has announced the launch of a new global brand identity expressed by the tagline 'Seeing Possibilities in Potatoes'.

As the 2014 crop year is coming to an end, Dutch potato processor Aviko is taking a look at the 2015 potato crop

McCain Foods (GB) selected the Quin Systems Versapack case erector and case packaging machine for its Ready Baked Jackets production in Scarborough.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its Scientific Opinion on Acrylamide in Food

TOMRA Sorting Solutions has installed a brand new 56 square meter cold room in its test and demonstration center in Leuven, Belgium to facilitate sorting tests and demonstrations of frozen products.

Permira announces today that a company backed by Permira Europe III has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Iglo Foods Holdings Limited (“Iglo Group”, or the “Group”), Europe’s largest frozen food business, to Nomad Holdings Limited (“Nomad”) for €2.6 billion.

BrandOpus, a strategic design agency specialising in brands, has worked with McCain Foods (GB) , the best selling frozen potato brand in the United Kingdom, to create a new range of Fries designed to appeal to an adult audience.

Bayer CropScience en Farm Frites zijn onlangs in een Food Chain Partnership gestapt, met als doel duurzame landbouwmethoden te implementeren in de aardappelteelt in België en Nederland.