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February 02, 2021 | News

DOWNS CropVision nominated for SIMA Innovation Award

With over a year to go before the SIMA mechanization exhibition will take place in Paris in November 2022, the event organisation held a press day on January 28.

November 30, 2020 | Blogs

Washing, weighing, packing and palletizing potatoes

Washing of tubers to remove adhering dust, soil and clay caps usually takes place in the processing factory prior to peeling. Moreover, packers generally wash the tubers and subsequently dry them before they are packed in supermarket ready wrapping.

November 24, 2020 | News

Custom-built Tong potato solution increases US processor’s sizing potential

Potato processor Skone & Connors Produce, Inc. chose a custom-built potato grading and washing solution from Tong Engineering.

November 23, 2020 | Blogs

Mechanical potato graders

Tuber grading takes place when the tubers enter the store or when they leave the store. Processing companies for chips production take in the whole crop and grade it at their facilities. They produce various end-products for which there are specifications of the raw material. Crisps makers only make crisps (and flakes of the unusable…

November 16, 2020 | Blogs

Visually estimating potato size grades

Potatoes are graded according to sizes as required by the users. Smaller seed sizes fetch higher prices than large one per kg because per kilogram they yield more stems in the field when planted. Larger ware potatoes fetch a higher price than small ones because they yield more kg of chips and crisps per ton…

November 09, 2020 | Blogs

Sorting potatoes

Potato sorting involves the removal of unwanted rotten or odd-shaped tubers, clods, stones and other foreign bodies such as crop remains or pieces of wood. In subsistence and semi-mechanized systems, sorting is done while hand-picking the wanted hand-dug or windrowed tubers from the ground and leaving unwanted ones behind.