Potato News from United Kingdom

Kent Crisps have won Best Savoury Snack for their Lamb and Rosemary flavour at the Great British Food Awards 2022. Having launched in late 2021, Lamb and Rosemary is the newest addition to the range of Kent Crisps.

Marc van Gerven is the Commercial Director of the Wyma offices in Europe and UK. He leads sales, service& parts, business development and marketing.

Haith Group has been presented with its second Queen's Award for Enterprise trophy by His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire, Dame Hilary Chapman.

Here’s some scary Halloween food news for you from Lamb Weston, Cambridgeshire-based producer of potato products and fries for the UK’s most popular burger chain: In the UK up to 8 million pumpkins will come to a grave end this year.

The Working Group for GB Potatoes has striven to bring the industry together to explore and develop what the industry needs following the levy payer ballots in Potatoes and Horticulture.

In the last six years, one of the UK’s leading potato growers has saved over GBP 300,000 (USD 330,000) through an unconventional but highly effective use of Stocks AG’s Rotor Meter.

With pressure mounting on farmers to measure and reduce their impact on water quality, Trinity AgTech has launched an enhanced module within their natural capital navigation tool, Sandy.

KP Snacks announced the launch of brand new, limited edition Christmas packaging for its premium snack brand Tyrrells. Rolling out from October, the fun and festive packaging will feature across sharing bags

KP Snacks has announced the launch of its newly reformulated non-HFSS (high in fat, salt and sugar) popchips portfolio. Appearing in stores as part of a phased roll-out, the entire popchips range, which includes the classic favourites Sea Salt

Leading vegetable handling equipment manufacturer Tong Engineering has announced its latest product development, which will see advanced optical sorting options available on all new models of its popular fieldloader machine, the FieldLoad PRO.

Proper Snacks, makers of ProperCorn and ProperChips, has now launched ProperCrisps. Lightly fried and ridged for extra flavour, ProperCrisps are launching in three flavours - Thai Chilli, Cheese and Onion and Flame Grilled Steak.

Visit Scotts´ stand H50 in Birmingham from 27 - 29 September to see their complete portfolio of palletising solutions and case studies, including the latest PAL 4.0 range.

Newtec Odense (UK) Ltd. will be ready to show two machines incl. a wash down trolley on this year’s PPMA Show, taking place 27-29 September.

The Net Zero Hectare project has secured GBP 2.06 million (about USD 2.36 million) in funding acquired from The Farming Innovation Programme, run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in cooperation with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

The UK's leading manufacturer of vegetable handling solutions will present its revolutionary new grading machine – the ProSort - to European farmers at Potato Europe 2022.

Gordon MP Richard Thomson has again called on the UK Government to get a deal in place that would see the resumption of exports of Scottish seed potatoes to the EU and Northern Ireland.

In the United Kingdom the price of French fries (UK: chips) is set to increase after recent high temperatures ravaged crops, potato growers have warned. Farmers said the heatwave had added to pressures caused by rising costs linked to the war in Ukraine.

Tong Engineering, manufacturer of handling equipment for potatoes - officially opened the brand-new doors of a purpose-built manufacturing facility on the edge of the company’s hometown of Spilsby in the United Kingdom.