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四月 28, 2025
SIAL Canada 2025: Celebrating Canadian Leadership and Innovation in the Global Food Industry
SIAL Canada 2025 highlights Canada as the Country of Honour, celebrating its leadership in food innovation. The event will feature over 1,000 exhibitors, 70+ conferences, and expert-led sessions, shaping the future of the agri-food industry.
一月 18, 2025
Lamb Weston's US foodservice customers can now get their frozen French fries in a recyclable paper bag
Lamb Weston is now offering its US foodservice customers the option to get their frozen French fries in a recyclable paper bag. The new package is the result of several years’ work by its packaging engineers to develop a format with a more sustainable end-of-life solution than exists for the company’s polyethylene bags.
四月 05, 2022
Launching Conscious Consumption™ line of potatoes at CPMA show
Following last week’s USDA announcement that potatoes from Prince Edward Island will soon be able to resume exporting into the U.S. after a multi-month ban on exports, in turn, that should positively impact the Ontario potato market.
十一月 05, 2021
Nova Scotia Couple Heeds the Call of The Family Farm, Sets Down New Brunswick Roots
The Covid-19 pandemic moment was a 'now or never' moment for Jonathan Kummer and Emily Ryan. The couple was living well and working in Halifax with an organizational design firm called Symplicity Design – until Covid-19 happened. Sponsored Content
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十二月 08, 2016
Italian Snack Manufacturer Preziosi Food expands potato chip portfolio with tna start-to-finish solution
Italian snack manufacturer Preziosi Food (Mitica) integrated new frying, seasoning and packaging systems from leading processing and packaging solutions provider, tna, to launch a new line of batch-fried potato chips.
六月 22, 2015
Prince Edward Island Potato Growers receive 2 million additional support for Metal Detection
The Province of Prince Edward Island is providing additional funding support of $500,000 to the Prince Edward Island potato industry, while the federal government also offers $1.5 million additional financial assistance for the purchase and installation of foreign material detection equipment.
十一月 07, 2011
Private labels, paper bags among packaging trends for potato
Private labels and a switch back to paper bags are among the packaging trends cited by Prince Edward Island potato grower-shippers. In packaging, Gary Linkletter, president and co-owner of Summerside-based Linkletter Farms Ltd., cited a trend toward p...
八月 11, 2011
tna appoints first sales manager specifically for Canada
tna, the food packaging solutions specialist, has appointed Sekhar Chakkingal as regional sales manager for Canada. An accomplished sales professional, Sekhar will strengthen tna’s presence in a market earmarked for substantial growth. This appointment...
十一月 03, 2010
Frito-Lay replaces noisy Sunchips packaging in the US, but not in Canada
In the last PotatoPro Newsletter 'Chips bags from potato peel? Biodegradable snack packaging' we focused on the changes Frito-Lay was making to the 'noisy'biodegradable Sunchips bags. Sunchips original will continue to be sold in the 'noisy'compostable bags, but all other Sunchips versions will be packed in regular (non-compostable) packaging until an improved biodegradable packaging is developed.
十一月 03, 2010
New Research Chair in Materials and films for safe, smart & sustainable packaging at Polytechnique Montréal
This morning, with its partners and several guests from the food and packaging fields in attendance, Polytechnique Montréal inaugurated the NSERC/Saputo/Excel Pac Industrial Research Chair in Materials and films for safe, smart and sustainable (3S) packaging.