Smart storage technology for potatoes

“As a potato grower or trader, you want to be able to store your potatoes in the best possible way. With minimal weight loss and as much product quality as possible. But how do you achieve this?

The outside air you use for drying and storage offers little prospect. Climate change means you have to deal with increasingly unpredictable weather conditions. Moisture and changes in temperature and CO2 can affect potatoes and cause weight loss. The risk of rotting nests, bruising and peel waste is also increasing. And the ban on the chemical sprout inhibitor Chlorprophram makes sprouting control more difficult. Once the quality of potatoes has deteriorated, they often no longer meet the increasing demands of buyers. And they yield less. This can be done better and smarter.

Equans has the ultimate solution to this problem. And offers an intelligent and proven way of mechanically storing potatoes. At each stage – drying, wound healing, cooling, storing and heating – the system selects an optimal storage programme with the right humidity, temperature and CO2 level. In this way, instead of the outside air determining the quality of the product, you control the quality of the product.

This knowledge document from Equans describes how you can use intelligent storage technology to find the right balance between storage and quality, energy consumption and cost.”