Potato News from Germany

February 28, 2013

Strong year for Bayer CropScience

The following is a part of Friday's Bayer presentations pertaining to Bayer CropScience. Read the full press release. “We were particularly successful in our agriculture business – our second life-science area – in 2012,” Dekkers said. CropScience inc...

February 28, 2013

Fruit Logistica 2013 highly successful

FRUIT LOGISTICA, the leading event for the international fresh produce trade sector, fully lived up to the high expectations.

February 28, 2013

Eima Maschinen- und Förderanlagen GmbH and Wintech Taparia Ltd. are joining hands

Eima Maschinen- und Förderanlagen GmbH (Germany) and Wintech Taparia Ltd. (India) are joining hands

February 28, 2013

Emsland Group to acquire dehy manufacturer Mecklenburger Kartoffelveredlung GmbH

Emsland Group, a manufacturer of potato starch and dehydrated potato products, will acquire Mecklenburger Kartoffelveredlung GmbH, a manufacturer of dehydrated potato products.

February 07, 2013

Fruit Logistica goes into second day

From 6 to 8 February 2013, a total of 2,543 exhibitors from 78 countries will be presenting not only the entire product and service range that so amply supplies consumers with fresh fruit and vegetables (and potatoes!) , but also numerous interesting i...

February 07, 2013

Industrial accident at Emsland-Stärke GmbH, Emlichheim

On 28 January a cloud of Nitric acid escaped from the chemical plant of Emsland-Stärke GmbH, Emlichheim, Germany.

TOMRA Sorting Solutions Food - Odenberg and BEST

February 05, 2013

ODENBERG and BEST at Fruit Logistica 2013

ODENBERG and BEST, part of TOMRA Sorting Solutions, will showcase different systems from their market-leading sensor-based optical sorters. The newly formed company exhibits for the first time together in Germany.

December 14, 2012

Aumenta el consumo de 'snacks' salados en el mercado alemán

Entre los principales snacks consumidos por los alemanes destacan las patatas fritas, con un aumento del 14% respecto a los ocho primeros meses de 2011 y unas ventas de 356,5 millones de euros;seguido de los frutos secos, que también presentan una evol...

October 31, 2012

110,000 tons of potatoes processed in the Emsland starch factory Kyritz

The processing campaign of potatoes in the Emsland-starch factory in German Kyritz is going well. Now at the half way period of the campaign already about 110,000 tons have been processed in the meantime. That is 50 percent of the contract quantity. &q...

October 10, 2012

Fruit Logistica 2013 is looking for innovators

Fresh produce industry companies with innovative products or services are invited to apply for the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award (FLIA) An official award ceremony on 8 February 2013 will be held to announce the winners.

August 16, 2012

Bayer CropScience Completes Acquisition of AgraQuest

Bayer CropScience announced today the completion of its purchase of AgraQuest, Inc., a global supplier of innovative biological pest management solutions.All required transaction waiting periods have expired without objection from the relevant competit...

Fortuna GM potato with resistancy against phytophthora

April 05, 2012

BASF continues field trials with GM potatoes in Europe

BASF Plant Science will again conduct field trials this year with genetically optimized potatoes which are undergoing the EU approval process.

April 02, 2012

Trends op de Anuga Foodtec

Verhoging van de productiviteit en daarmee of tegelijkertijd kostenreductie realiseren. Dat is een belangrijke trend en drijfveer voor innovatie, zo bleek op de Anuga FoodTec in Keulen. VMT noemt als tweede trend "duurzaamheid"en de derde on...

March 27, 2012

Potato starch supplier Solam sets its sights on growth

Solam, the distribution joint venture between the starch manufacturers Emsland and Lyckeby, has set itself a target of raising sales volumes by 3-5% this year.

March 16, 2012

Duitsland: Omzet aardappelverwerking flink gestegen

De omzet van aardappelverwerkingsbedrijven in Duitsland is het afgelopen jaar opnieuw flink gestegen, namelijk met 8,4%. De aardappelen waren in de tweede helft van het jaar voordelig beschikbaar. Deze omzetstijging zal in de cijfers over de aardappel...

March 11, 2012

Eerste aardappelen in de grond in Duitsland

In Duitsland zijn de eerste vroege aardappelen geplant. In de Pfalz, traditioneel het vroegste teeltgebied van Noord West Europa waar de aardappelen de eerste periode onder plastic worden geteeld, was men al eind februari gestart met de aanplant . Mo...

March 01, 2012

Phosphate in food is ‘health risk’ that should be labelled, claim researchers

Food products with high phosphate contents are damaging to the health of the general public, and as such should be labelled, say researchers behind a new study. The report – published in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International – selectively reviewed resear...

March 01, 2012

Germany: Bintje potato of the year 2012

Bintje, a classic amongst the potato varieties was chosen to be potato of the year by a panel of judges consisting of eight representatives of various environment, consumer and grower organisations. Gert Lindemann, the minister of Food, Agriculture, Co...