17 May, 2021

3 Upgrade Steps for Potato Sticks

Rediscovering a classic snack product is made easy with Rosenqvists Food Technologies

Potato Sticks is a classic snack product. It is loved and consumed as a stand-alone snack or as a condiment to your grilled barbecue dinner. Why not rediscover this product, a perfect complement to your range of potato chips.

Check out this short film on how to produce Potato Sticks.

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Patrik Kjell from the service team at Rosenqvists Food Technologies summarizes the three upgrade steps needed in your processing line to produce potato sticks. Click on the full article below to find out what you need to do.

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3 May, 2021

Connectivity in the Factory of the Future

The challenges we face due to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to new ways of cooperating with our clients. A need to work efficient and smart has always been important, but now – when travelling is a challenge, we are forced to find new remote support and communication solutions. “In a way, the pandemic, have brought us even closer to our clients”, says Sales Manager Fredrik Rönnberg at Rosenqvists Food Technologies.

Find out how we can help you with remote support and optimizing your process in this new article. The article was first published in Potato Business Dossier 1/2021 – Factory of the Future, page 24.

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12 April, 2021

Acrylamide Mitigation – It is Possible!

With the right actions in place to control build-up of Acrylamide, it is possible to maintain a stable and low level well within the recommended benchmark level at 750 microgram/kg. Your control program should ideally address the important factors which are:

  • Raw material quality (low levels of reducing sugars)
  • Possible pre-treatment (Pulse Electric Field or other)
  • Blanching
  • Temperature profile in the frying system (lower temperature in the end zone of the fryer)
  • Moisture content of final product
  • Optimize process control (never over fry)
  • Remove all dark brown chips or french fries (possible optical sorting)

Plan and control the factors of importance above, but remember that the final product has to still be of top quality and loved by your consumer.

We have summarized some basic facts about acrylamide and information to consider in a new article. Other important help on the subject is the Acrylamide Toolbox from FoodDrinkEurope and educational videos from European Snacks Association, ESA. ESA has now supporting data from 2002 to 2019 confirming that low levels of Acrylamide is possible.

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19 March, 2021

New Article: The World’s Thinnest Potato Chips

When project manager Peter Wedenell got to hear about the clients plan of producing the worlds thinnest potato chips, he was sceptical, at first. He feared the challenge of separating the slices enough to avoid lumps of potato chips in the fryer would be difficult. In the end, the team from the client and Rosenqvists Food Technologies succeeded in making history with a potato chips with only 0,8 mm thickness.

Read the article here

Read the article here

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8 March, 2021

The Potato – the Importance of the Raw Material

The secret to produce high quality potato products is to control the raw material. In the attached article Jörgen Andersson walks you through a presentation of the potato as a raw material, the variations in internal and external quality, as well as how a processing line should be able to handle these variations. Enjoy!

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8 February, 2021

Expand Snack Pellets in Salt

In the article “Product Opportunities with RoastR!”, Jakob Alftén walks you through what products can be produced in the new snack innnovation RoastR, that utilizes the heat transfer capability in salt to expand snack pellets.

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20 January, 2021

New Partnership Announcement

Rosenqvist Food Technologies thrives to further expand their market presence around the world, and therefore we are delighted to announce the new strategic partnership with the company Luciano Aguilar for the Spanish and Portuguese snack and potato processing industry.

Luciano Aguilar S.A.  is a family owned company founded in 1876 whose core activity is the exclusive representation and distribution of industrial machinery for Spain and Portugal. Its activity is mainly focused on equipment for processing, packaging and inspection in the food sector

www.laguilar.es/en

Rosenqvists Food Technologies designs and manufactures complete processing lines for all styles of potato chips, snack pellets, nuts, French fries, coated French fries and potato specialities.

Speaking of the partnership, Fredrik Rönnberg at Rosenqvist Food Technologies says, “We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of technology, and as a machine manufacturer, we are constantly looking for innovative solutions to assist our customers in enhancing their productivity and growing their businesses. We felt a natural fit with the company Luciano Aguilar and the owners company values. Together with Luciano Aguilar’s local market knowledge and our latest solutions for the snack and potato processing industry we are convinced that this partnership will provide our customers an even better overall support”.

To find out more about Rosenqvist Food Technologies and Luciano Aguilar, get in touch with Dries De Block or Dan Tous.

Dries De Block: dries.deblock@rosenqvists.com

Dan Tous: dan.tous@laguilar.es

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12 January, 2021

Exploring a new snack application

Construction is under way for a new snacks processing line at STRIPS CHIPS in Czech Republic. It is very exciting to be part of this project where we, in partnership with customer, is taking the handcraft snack product into industrial scale. The snack product is an extruded snack made from beans, chick peas and lentils and fried in the Rosenqvists star wheel fryer. The end product is crunchy and hot in flavour profiles inspired from Mexico, Asia and the Mediterranean. Another excellent example of the plant based trend among snacks products.

Working hard on the programming

From a processing point of view, an interesting challenge to make sure we balance the right moisture levels and frying times in the best possible way. We congratulate STRIPS CHIPS on a great looking new factory site and hope for success in the market place.

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11 January, 2021

New article: Why Do We Blanch Cut Potato Slices?

In this new article by Göran Wadsten, he explains why it is important to blanch potato slices aimed for potato chips. Hopefully, blanching is not needed all year around, but it is a crucial step in the processing to achieve crispy and bright coloured potato chips.

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9 December, 2020

New Area Sales Manager in the sales team

We are pleased to inform you that we continue to build an even stronger team to support our clients around the world.

Dries De Block who is Belgium based has joined our sales team as Area Sales Manager responsible for the markets in Benelux, France, Spain and Portugal.

Dries has over 8 years of global experience within the food processing industry, he worked for Best, Tomra and Optimum Sorting who are industry leaders providing optical sorting solutions for the food industry.

We look forward to work together with Dries and we feel confident he will be a strong support for our client base. 

 

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