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Potato Processing Weekly
A free weekly potato industry newsletter from Potatopedia, sent every Tuesday. It covers plant openings and expansions; capacity; technology: sorting, peeling, frying, acrylamide, energy; raw-material supply; company results; people moves, worldwide, with the primary source linked for every story.
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Who it is for
Plant and technical managers, buyers and R&D teams in fries, chips, flakes, starch and dehydrated potato.
What it covers
- Plant openings and expansions
- Capacity
- Technology: sorting, peeling, frying, acrylamide, energy
- Raw-material supply
- Company results
- People moves
Coverage is global, with regular space for Asia, Africa and Latin America as well as Europe and North America. Read alongside the evergreen pages it feeds: How potatoes are processed, Potato chip production and Problems processors pay to solve.
Latest issue
Issue 01 · 14 Nov 2026
Utz stockholders approve USD 2.9 billion sale to IntersnackUtz stockholders have approved the USD 2.9 billion sale to Intersnack, with closing expected around 20 Nov, even as third-quarter adjusted EBITDA fell 30.3%. In Europe, Lorenz and Lyckeby show plants working on transport and emissions, while a new review puts India's processed share of its potato crop near 7%.
Recent stories
- Trial on three South African cultivars links water, potassium to tuber quality
Researchers tested how irrigation at 40%, 70% and 100% of crop evapotranspiration and potassium at 0 to 200 kg per hectare shape tuber quality in Mondial, Markies and Panamera, three cultivars sold in South Africa. Deficit irrigation raised dry matter and ascorbic acid, while sucrose responded to both water and potassium, a paper published 11 Nov 2026 reports.
- Serbian trial links irrigation and N-K fertilizer choices to chip potato quality
Researchers at the Universities of Novi Sad and Belgrade report in the American Journal of Potato Research, published 28 Oct 2026, how drip versus sprinkler irrigation and nitrogen-potassium fertilizer strategies affected the chip-processing quality of three potato cultivars grown in Serbia from 2021 to 2023 and tested under commercial factory conditions.
- Study tunes image AI to tell six potato cultivars apart with 90% accuracy
A study in Potato Research, published online on 30 Oct 2026, reports that tuning a VGG-19 image-classification network with meta-heuristic algorithms improved how well it told six potato cultivars apart. The best method, Artificial Bee Colony, reached 90% accuracy on the test set, a 23% gain over the untuned standard approach.
- Review puts India's potato processing share near 7%, with frozen fries in the lead
A review by scientists at ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, published in Potato Research on 6 Nov 2026, finds India processes only about 7% of its potato crop, though that share is rising. Frozen fries make up 35-50% of the processed market, ahead of chips and dehydrated products, the authors report.
- US fry processors grade candidate varieties at NFPT field day in Minnesota
Potatoes USA gathered breeders, processors and growers in Oct 2026 at the USDA-ARS Potato Research Station in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, to grade candidate frozen-fry varieties in the National Fry Processors Trial. Their ratings decide which selections move toward commercial use. Since 2011 the trial has released nine russet varieties.
Archive
- Issue 01 · 14 Nov 2026Utz stockholders approve USD 2.9 billion sale to Intersnack
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