Danish food company KMC is set to open its new plant for the production of potato granules and potato flakes next month. Located conveniently close to the firm's main office in Brande, Denmark, the 11,000-square-metre new plant will have a capacity of approximately 20,000 metric tonnes.
The €17.2 million plant represents both an expansion of the company's overall capacity and a move into the broader overall market for potato-based products. It extends the company's comprehensive range of potato and tapioca starches still further.
"This plant is unique because the entire factory has been carefully designed to make production as flexible as possible," said KMC's chief commercial officer Hans Henrik Nielsen. "This means we can virtually always produce granules and flakes with the exact functionality each particular customer needs. Naturally, KMC's application technicians are also on hand to help tailor the product to the specifics of any of our customers' production processes.
"Combined with our guaranteed supply of high-quality potatoes due to KMC's unique and close co-operative based relationship with the growers, we are able to bring new standards of quality and consistency to the market. The new plant will help us leverage our existing strong reputation within all kinds of ingredients based on potato starch still further."
The company considers this a strategic move that will strengthen the company's rapidly expanding position as a strong supplier of special ingredients to the world market. Products will be aimed at the European market.
KMC will be displaying at the FIE (Food Ingredients Europe) trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany on 18-20 November 2003.