Branston Ltd.

The anaerobic digestion plant at Branston's headquarters in Lincoln will use low value potatoes and peelings to produce enough electricity to cut the firm's reliance on grid electricity by 40%.Work started on the plant last week, project director Vee G...

Main crop potato planting is well under way across the UK, with many areas nearing completion.Rob Burrow of the Potato Council says: "Despite a slow start, due to low soil temperatures in some areas, planting has gone very well and has been proble...

You can boil them, mash them and roast them but rarely are potatoes burned to a cinder to generate electricity - but that's what one Lincolnshire company is going to do.Branston Ltd has been given permission to build an energy from waste plant at its M...

Branston Ltd, the UK’s largest supplier of potatoes, is now fully ISO 14001 accredited.The company, which has a handling capacity in excess of 400,000 tonnes a year, secured the standard at its South West operation earlier this month, which means all o...