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六月 07, 2011

Northern Star potato processing plant facing noise complaints from neighbours

The new Northern Star Co. potato processing plant and its 400 jobs were received in Chaska with open arms 18 months ago, but the town didn't expect loud flushing sounds in the middle of the night.

六月 03, 2011

Washington potato production among the most sustainable on the planet

Washington potatoes are not only good for you, their production is highly sustainable.

五月 30, 2011

Frito-Lay Modesto Facility California’s First Existing Food Manufacturing Site to Achieve LEED Gold

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Modesto, Calif., facility has become the state’s first food manufacturing site to be awarded LEED® Gold existing building

Taterware utensils made out of potato starch after composting

五月 18, 2011

Bioplastics based on potato starch not necessarily compostable

You may assume that bioplastics made from potato starch can be composted. However, that is not necessarily the case.

五月 12, 2011

Potatopak wins New Zealand's Best Packaging Award

A compostable take-away container made by Potatopak from waste potato starch has won the 2011 Unpackit Award for New Zealand’s best packaging.

五月 12, 2011

Potatopak gana premio en Nueva Zelanda por el mejor envase

Un envase para comida producido por Potatopak y elaborado con almidón de papa ganó el Premio Unpackit 2011 al mejor empaque en Nueva Zelanda. El premio fue otorgado luego de revisar más de 9.000 votos del público. Así mismo se premió al peor de los en...

五月 10, 2011

Frito-Lay Killingly Facility awarded LEED® Gold existing building status

epsiCo’s Frito-Lay Killingly, Conn., facility today became the state’s first manufacturing site to be awarded LEED® Gold existing building

四月 18, 2011

Cavendish Farms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with move to natural gas

Cavendish Farms will invest in new technology to use more cost-effective natural gas and achieve a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions at the New Annan plant.

四月 13, 2011

ConAgra Foods Recognizes Sustainable Business Practices

ConAgra Foods announced today the winners of its 2011 Sustainable Development Awards, an internal awards program intended to drive and reward innovative approaches to sustainability that produce tangible business results.

四月 11, 2011

Potato Chips labeled organic taste better

四月 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?

四月 01, 2011

Cargill completes acquisition of Royal Nedalco

Cargill today completed its acquisition of Royal Nedalco's alcohol business from its parent company Royal Cosun, including its production sites in the Netherlands and the UK.

三月 29, 2011

Americold Achieves 90 Percent Energy Reduction With Lighting Upgrade From Groom Energy and Digital Lumens

Groom Energy and Digital Lumens today announced the installation of Digital Lumens' Intelligent LED Lighting Systems at Americold facilities located in Massachusetts, Utah and Wisconsin.

三月 22, 2011

March 22 is World Water Day: Eat potatoes!

March 22 is 'world water day’ and a diversity of organisations are making use of this day to check the water use in the production of a wide variety of food stuffs.

Quieter biodegradable sunchips packaging explained

三月 08, 2011

A Quieter biodegradable SunChips bag

In October last year we wrote in a PotatoPro Newsletter about biodegradable snack bags and addressed the noise issues Frito-lay had with their SunChips packaging. Now Frito-lay has reduced the noise of the biodegradable SunChips packaging and are now introducing Quieter 100% compostable SunChips bags.

三月 01, 2011

Americold Announces Grand Opening of Cold Storage Facility in Delhi, Louisiana

Americold today announced the grand opening of a new temperature-controlled storage facility in Delhi, Louisiana.

二月 28, 2011

Peka Kroef en waterschap Aa en Maas zoeken oplossing voor afvalwater

Aardappelverwerkingsbedrijf Peka Kroef in het Brabantse Odiliapeel en waterschap Aa en Maas gaan samenwerken aan schoon water.

二月 26, 2011

Lamb Weston Richland plant, Lamb Weston/RDO Frozen Foods Plant in Park Rapids earn Energy Star

Both the ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston Richland processing facility and the ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston/RDO Frozen Foods Plant in Park Rapids have earned ENERGY STAR® designation for 2010 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).