POTATO PROCESSING Digital digest
he start of a new year always brings with it a mixture of anticipation and trepidation. Hopefully, however, after
the past few bad years, 2012 will be a more positive year for all of us in this interesting industry. Many might see this as wishful thinking
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Volume 1 - 2012
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Changing business conditions justify a
break from tradition, says Reardon. “The best practice last year may not be the
but there are features in this issue of Potato Processing International which highlight optimism from industry leaders like Key Technology’s Tim Reardon and the British Potato Council’s Rob Clayton. Reardon, in his look-ahead guest column,
actively encourages the development of creative new solutions. This, he says, will give forward-thinking processors and equipment manufacturers the edge over their competitors. He advises that as water, energy and
labour become scarcer and the costs of these limited resources rise, agile processors who change with the times will be able to create competitive advantages.
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best practice next year. New threats arise and new solutions are developed... agile, forward-leaning potato processors constantly search for ways to address problems.” And Clayton, on the other side of ‘the
pond’, says sustainable, profitable business for its members is the aim of Britain’s Potato Council over the next three years and it is charting the course for long-term success in the potato industry, wherever they are in the supply chain. Besides the early expos this year, plans are
in full swing for the 2012 International Potato Processing and Storage Convention which takes place in Riga, Latvia, at the end of June. Prior to this there is the World Potato
Congress in Edinburgh – another important milestone for the industry.
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why its capital Riga is our International Potato Processing and Storage Convention venue for this
year.The convention dates are June 26-28, with a slight change to the tried-and-tested format. We are planning two days of
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presentations – with Tuesday, June 26, being storage oriented and the next day being process focussed. The Thursday has been set aside for field trips. And again we are allowing time for networking, discussion forums and exhibits in the convention area. See www.potatobusiness for more and our earlybird deadlines.
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atvia lies at the heart of Europe’s fastest-growing region – the Baltic Sea Region – and this is one reason
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