Organic Grower Meeting December
Yesterday we held this year’s grower meeting for organic farmers. Almost all our loyal organic farmers were represented.
This year’s progress in the field and final results were reviewed and at the same time we had invited a Global G.A.P. consultant to inform our suppliers about the new version coming in 2024.
We appreciate the good attendance and the commitment of the suppliers.
Yesterday we held this year’s grower meeting for ecologists. Almost all of our faithful ecologists were represented.
The year’s progress in the field and final results were reviewed and at the same time we had invited a Global G.A.P. consultant to inform our suppliers about the new version, which will come in 2024. We appreciate a good turnout and the great commitment of the suppliers.
About 3 weeks ago, the last load was loaded into our warehouse in Sunds.
All warehouses are full and the corridors have also been put into use, but only with a small amount.
Our warehouses should preferably be kept completely closed until we reach the new year.
In the coming weeks, we will have used the last Lady Britta, which is in stock at our growers, and only then will we open our warehouses.
The quality of the potatoes in storage generally looks reasonable, despite a challenging season.
We look forward to following the potatoes until summer, when the last ones are usually send out.
Again this year, we have our normal trial fields, where variety trials are carried out in both chip, edible and potato-free varieties.
This year we have incl. measuring varieties 26 varieties included in the experiment.
The pictures are from planting the varieties in one of our experimental fields in Stoholm, where our Agro team Mia and Jens helped to keep track of the big puzzle.
The weather was perfect for planting potatoes and we are excited to follow the new varieties through the growing season.
The Agro department was out last week putting our test varieties in the field, and the weather was with us.
Every year we have both mini- and large-scale trials to test new varieties, in order to constantly be at the forefront of developments
in the industry and thereby be able to optimize the finances of both suppliers and customers.
There are some exciting varieties this year and we are excited to follow their development.
We had a fantastic day for our Open House event on Friday 24 August 2018.
Our guess is that there were approx. 300 visitors from near and far during the day.
thanks to everyone who took the time to come by and celebrate the big day with us.
Below are some pictures from the day
In order to meet an increasing demand for organic potatoes for the chips and peeling industry, we are erecting a new building, containing a new warehouse and production plant with the aim of being able to handle the organic part of our production, as well as our peeling and French fries potatoes.
The storage capacity in the new warehouse will be 58,000 hkg. in boxes. The warehouse will be equipped with room cooling and pressurized ventilation between the boxes, which contain approx. 1800 kg per piece
The new production facility will be set up so that we can better handle peeled and French fries than we can in our current facility, as we will, among other things, have much better options for size sorting of both unwashed and washed products, so that we can better meet the wishes of our customers have. (2018)
So we have returned home from the variety exhibition in the Netherlands with a lot of new inspiration.
It is always fascinating to get around and meet all our customers, suppliers and business partners and hear how the market is doing.
We have carefully selected the varieties that we will test in our trial fields in 2018 and hope that there is just one of them that turns out to be the variety that we are waiting for.
It is a satisfied board and management in Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S which can announce that Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S retroactively till March 1st 2017,
have taken over all the activities in Scanax International A/S.
The two companies have throughout the last months looked at the possibilities. It has led to the purchase of all activities in Scanax.
The activities will be carried on in a new daughter company of Thorsens
Chipskartofler A/S but with the existing name Scanax International A/S and with the same staff. Erik Thorsen will though step in as director.
As the first European wholesale supplier of potatoes for the production of potato chips, Thorsens Chipskartofler A/S (Denmark) is now offering its customers access to a web-based information system containing unique data for each customer. By using the system, the customer can access detailed information regarding the quality of the potatoes under way to be delivered.
Thorsens Chipskartofler already delivers potatoes based on a “just-in-time” concept. This means that the customer can order potatoes a few days in advance, to be delivered by a specific time. Today all deliveries are quality checked and the results are sent to the customer. Now however, Thorsens Chipskartofler has invested in a new, state-of-the-art lab for quality analysis as well as an automated system for data collection for traceability and quality. The automated data collection minimizes the risk of error and allows the results from the analyses to be made available to the customers through the web-based information system.
CEO Erik Thorsen stated; “Our customers knows their potatoes before they see them”.
The new transparency of the delivery, which is unique for the industry, offers huge benefits for the manufacturers, as it will enable early planning of their production, adjusted to the actual potato quality possible. This will result in better chips and a more effective production. All data relating to deliveries are kept in a single digital repository, which makes it easy to retrieve historical data for analysis.
The investment follows just three years after Thorsens Chipskartofler spent € 3,5 mill., setting up the most advanced wash and sorting installation in Northern Europe.
CEO Erik Thorsen;”I expect that this investment will contribute substantially to continued growth in our exports, which has already grown by 60% since the investment made in 2012. In the industry there is a huge demand for information regarding the commodities used. We are the first to deliver this information online.” Thorsen adds, “quality has always been high priority for us and we have monitored quality continuously. Now we have created a digital platform to share our information.” Finally Erik Thorsen says, “Our state-of-the-art lab has been established with our corporate values in mind. We want to be an attractive workplace and our lab will improve working conditions; by among other things eliminating heavy lifts entirely.”
The new facilities will be ready October 29th and this will be celebrated with an open house event, which also marks Erik Thorsens 60th birthday.