News on Chips and Snacks from Europe

Novozymes announced the launch of Acrylaway® HighT, the first thermostable solution that reduces acrylamide levels in food products that are typically processed at extremely high temperatures.

Seabrook Crisps has become the official crisps sponsor of the O2 Arena in London.

The Grocer reports that Pepsico's Red Sky potato chips brand has lost nearly all its supermarket listings.

Walkers is increasing the size of its Grab Bags by 20%. The size increase is taking place across both the Walkers core range and the brands Doritos, Monster Munch and Quavers, offering shoppers better value and making them more appealing for sharing.

Sixty firefighters tackled a blaze which started at a Walkers food processing factory in Leicester Wednesday morning.

A small British potato chip/crisp manufacturer – Corkers Crisps of Ely, Cambridgeshire has set a new Guiness record for the largest bag of potato chips ever lifted. The bag measured 5.5 metres high and had to be strong enough to support over a tonne.

Mikel López Iturriaga, periodista y bloguero español, describe cómo se hacen las papas (o patatas) fritas, desde que se recogen en los campos de cultivos hasta que son empacadas para su posterior venta.

English Chips maker Tyrrells is expanding its range of high end snacks with the launch of its new Apple Crisps.

Burts Chips has announced it is extending its range of hand-cooked premium crisps with the launch of Guinness Rich Beef Chilli flavour.

La freiduría TAS (León, España) acaba de celebrar sus bodas de oro y mantiene la esencia artesanal y familiar con la que abrió sus puertas en el año 1963. Leonnoticias.com acaba de publicar un reportaje en conmemoración de esos 50 años de trabajo.

The Cornish Crisp has been chosen by Qantas Airways to be the crisp for business passengers on flights from London to Dubai from 1 September.

Swedish chip brand Estrella are going to replace the Union Jack with an Irish tricolour following a request from an Irishman based in Sweden to correctly illustrate the history of salt and vinegar flavoured snacks.

¿Cómo se hace una papa chip adictiva? Este es el tema central del artículo escrito por Andy Robinson para el diario español La Vanguardia.

Mackie’s Crisps hosted almost 200 hundred guests at the opening of their new crisp factory in Errol, Perthshire earlier this month.

Similar a un expendedor de bebidas, el primero de estos distribuidores está ya en funcionamiento en Bruselas, según recoge el diario La Dernière Heure en su edición digital.

Ishida Europe is introducing an enhancement to its market-leading Atlas range of snack food bagmakers which the company says will increase its already-high speeds on Potato Chips by a further 35% to a performance leading 150 bags per minute.

The Highlander crisps plant at Bathgate, West Lothian, closed on July 31 with the loss of 28 jobs.

Potato Chips Manufacturer Tyrrells Potato Crisps in the United Kingdom will get new ownership. Investcorp announced today that it has agreed to acquire Tyrrells Potato Crisps from Langholm Capital for £100 million.