News on Sorters (Mechanical) and Cleaners from Europe

Theme: ‘Let’s connect the potato chain in the post-coronavirus world’. 2020 will go down in history as 'the year of the coronavirus pandemic'.

TOMRA Food has appointed category expert Marco Colombo as Global Category Director Potatoes. In this role, he will strengthen the company’s relationship with the potato industry even further and consolidate its position as a thought leader in the sector.

Leading UK potato and vegetable handling equipment manufacturer Tong Engineering has announced the appointment of a new Quality Manager: Denzil Phillips

The new plant of BS Cocinados, S.L. in Funes (Navarre), Spain, produces ready-made Potato Omelettes. The new plant is an ambitious project which will significantly increase production capacity of the company.

A PERTHSHIRE farming business which supplies table and seed potatoes to the UK, Europe, North Africa and Middle East will increase throughput by up to 100 percent by modernizing operating processes after securing £1 million in support from banking giant

Web graders are used to grade different sizes when storing potatoes and onions. For the 2020 season, GRIMME has extensively upgraded the proven and very gentle web grader WG 900.

For the past 70 years, Marcelissen Venlo BV has been a family business where tradition, craftsmanship and innovation went hand in hand. Guus Treuen has been employed at Marcelissen since 1976.

TOMRA's three food sorting and grading brands exhibit industry-leading solutions at Fruit Logistica Berlin.

Haith Group, a leading designer and manufacturer of potato handling equipment, used the Fruit Logistica (5-7 February) to ramp-up its post-Brexit preparations as the company looks to continue its excellent European export levels.

Haith has strengthened a key area of its business with the appointment of Jim Bird. Mr Bird joins the leading designer and manufacturer of vegetable handling equipment as a Project Manager.

Vibratory conveyor manufacturer FoodeQ dedicates a magazine to its 10th anniversary

Michel Picandet has been appointed Executive Vice President and Head of TOMRA Food. He joined the company on January 1st, 2020 and will be based at the TOMRA Food headquarters in Leuven, Belgium.

The scale of the global food waste problem is staggering. According to reports, 1.6 billion tons of food are lost or wasted every year, equating to a total value of $1.2 trillion being wiped from the supply chain.

At LAMMA 2020, potato handling equipment manufacturer Tong Engineering will launch an online portal for customers to easily access equipment documentation: the TongHUB

By using the TOMRA 3A high-performance sorting machine Duchemin (Caen, France) are able to ensure their potatoes are a premium product.

Haith Group will be unveiling its new Store Loader PRO at LAMMA 2020. The specialist vegetable handling and processing machinery manufacturer has incorporated several innovations into its latest store loading machine.

TOMRA Food, junto a Compac y BBC Technologies, ambas pertenecientes al Grupo TOMRA Food,mostraron sus novedades en la Feria Internacional del Sector de Frutas y Hortalizas, FruitAttraction, que celebró su 11ª edición en IFEMA.

TOMRA exhibits the TOMRA 5A, its avant-garde model for potato sorting. Compac’s new UltraView inspection module maximizes Spectrim’s grading performance.