News on Processing Equipment from Europe

From 8 to 10 February 2023, thirty-two Belgian suppliers of fruit and vegetables, potatoes and fruit trees, together with three trade associations and four fruit and vegetable auctions, will present themselves at the joint stand of Flanders’ Agricultural Marketing Board, VLAM, at Fruit Logistica in hall 27, at stand A 22.

Haith, a leading manufacturer of vegetable handling solutions in the United Kingdom will be promoting its innovative mobile optical sorter at Fruit Logistica next month (February 8-10 ).

BP (British Potato), the key calendar date for all those operating in or supplying to the British potato industry, will have a new owner/organiser for its next event in November 2023.

Como líder europeo en el diseño y producción de máquinas de corte industrial de alimentos, FAM Stumabo estará presente para mostrar las últimas innovaciones de corte en la industria de frutas y verduras en la feria ‘Fruit Logistica’ (Berlín, Alemania).

Dutch palletising solutions manufacturer Verbruggen has appointed Tong Engineering, leading UK vegetable handling equipment manufacturer, as distributor for the United Kingdom.

La empresa italiana Bulltec ha suministrado al consorcio de productores de patata PPAS, de la localidad de Camigliatello Silano, provincia de Cosenza, un sistema electrónico de clasificación por peso para batatas, con un sistema de transporte de dos canales con 8+1 salidas.

As the European leader in the field of industrial cutting machines, FAM Stumabo will be present to showcase our latest cutting innovations for the vegetable and fruit industry at Fruit Logistica (Berlin, Germany).

TOMRA Food continues to sharpen its focus on sorting and peeling solutions precisely tailored to food categories. TOMRA Food's Processed Food business area has appointed its first Global Category Director for Vegetables and Fruit.

Zweifel Pomy-Chips AG has been the leading potato chip manufacturer in Switzerland for many years. Every day, tons of raw material from Swiss fields are processed into high-quality, crispy chips for the food retail trade throughout Switzerland.

Maatschap Bouthoorn llevaba tiempo buscando una clasificadora de patatas adecuada. Durante mucho tiempo, este proveedor holandés de patatas de siembra no consideró que las máquinas hubieran demostrado suficientemente su eficacia; hasta que descubrió la U-Vision.

The 35th project to be completed by Haith for Greenvale AP delivered the perfect Christmas present. Commissioned in June 2022, two new Haith wash lines allowed Greenvale's Cambridgeshire facility to handle the busy festive period easily.

La compañía patatera ha querido mostrar la nueva fábrica que entrará en funcionamiento a principios del próximo año.

Key Technology, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, announces VERYX® digital sorters are now being manufactured at their Beusichem facility in the Netherlands for food processors in the EMEA and Asia regions.

A sustainable food service concept and new processing center for the production of thousands of meals for the Santander Group City in Madrid. Healthier, fresher and more regional: Sodexo provides the employees of the Santander Group

Food waste is financial waste, yet when processing lines peel vegetables, they often let huge amounts of raw material get thrown away. Food losses can be as high as 30% during mechanical peeling and 20% with low-tech steam peelers.

Frozen potato giant McCain is investing GBP 2.5 million in its site in Montrose, Scotland, to install a new optical sorting seed potato grading system.

Over the past few days, a large number of people involved in the potato sector attended this record-breaking edition of Interpom held in Kortrijk Xpo (B).

TOMRA Food has appointed Christian Tougaard to Regional Sales Director EMEA for TOMRA Processed Food, part of TOMRA Food. Christian’s appointment follows the reorganization earlier this year of TOMRA Food into two business areas