Potato News from Germany

April 06, 2011

Is ethical shopping overpowering charity?

Fair Trade, organic, sustainable and eco-friendly are making their way on to package labels across all categories, but how do consumers actually view these products?

February 17, 2011

FRUIT LOGISTICA 2011: More trade visitors and billion-euro deals

February 16, 2011

K+S KALI introduces KaliSel, Food Grade Potassium Chloride

KaliSel is high-purity potassium chloride (KCl) from natural sources.

February 08, 2011

BASF OnVu ICE labels show whether products were kept frozen

February 08, 2011

Fruit Logistica 2011 draws record attendance

The reputation of FRUIT LOGISTICA as the world's leading international fresh produce trade fair has been underlined yet again this year by the presence of all market leaders, the industry’s top decision-makers and a new attendance record.

February 08, 2011

Participación récord en la cumbre del comercio hortofrutícola en Berlín

El lugar preponderante que ocupa FRUIT LOGISTICA, el salón líder internacional del sector hortofrutícola, se corrobora una vez más este año con la presencia de los principales actores y actuadores en el mercado, los responsables del sector y una asiste...

February 07, 2011

PACK EXPO Sponsors World Packaging Organisation's Worldstar 2010 Awards Ceremony

PMMI, owner and producer of the PACK EXPO family of trade shows, is pleased to announce PACK EXPO has signed on as Platinum Sponsor of the World Packaging Organization’s (WPO) WorldStar awards ceremony.

February 01, 2011

Sigpack and Paal will be renamed Bosch Packaging Systems

Bosch Packaging Technology, a leading supplier of holistic packaging and process technology, is changing the company names of its subsidiaries Sigpack Systems AG and Paal Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH

January 31, 2011

BASF Plant Science set to cultivate Amflora potatoes in Germany and Sweden in 2011

BASF Plant Science has concluded its Amflora cultivation plans for the 2011 season. Amflora, the genetically enhanced potato for use in the starch industry, will this year be cultivated on two hectares of land in Üplingen (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany).

January 31, 2011

Clean label pea and potato starches developed by Emsland

Emsland Group has developed a new range of clean label potato and pea starches that can be used in a range of food applications in place of modified starch.

Wim Christiaens (Sormac) and Johannes Diepers (Diepers)

January 30, 2011

Diepers installs new Sormac peeling line

Johannes Diepers Landwirtschaft in Sevelen, Germany grows and processes potatoes that are supplied peeled to customers including institutional kitchens, hotels and restaurants. Diepers has been working with Sormac machines for fifteen years.

January 26, 2011

Bosch back on clear course for growth

The Bosch Group has returned to its growth course, and has already regained the level of sales seen in 2007, before the crisis.

January 24, 2011

Termijncontract voor frites in de maak

De Duitse bedrijven EWB en Hansa Terminhandel werken aan een contract voor frites dat kan worden verhandeld op de termijnmarkt.

January 21, 2011

Duitse aardappelexport breekt record

De Duitse aardappelexport draait volop, dat zegt het Duitse marktbureau AMI op basis van cijfers over november van het Statistische Bundesambt.

January 07, 2011

AMI: Tafelaardappelafzet Duitsland bleef zwak in 2010

December 17, 2010

BIOX-M kiemremmer voor aardappelen genomineerd voor Fruit Logistica Innovation Award

Tijdens de komende editie van Fruit Logistica zal een Innovation Award uitreiken worden voor de beste innovatie van het afgelopen jaar.

December 03, 2010

Duitse aardappeltelers eisen meer flexibele contracten

De Duitse federatie voor telers van frites- en chipsaardappelen eist van de verwerkende industrie flexibeler contracten

November 26, 2010

Grimme launches new two-row potato planter

Visitors to Grimme’s German Technica were treated to the first showing of a new two-row potato planter and a sneak preview of the company’s very first trailer last week.