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Our most efficient grader ever – the Caretaker
Tong is pleased to integrate new generation blue inverter technology and integrated HMI control to its 2013 Caretaker grading range. Using over 50% less energy than previous models and tests showing that the latest models can run on as little as only 18 amps of electricity, the new Caretaker mobile vegetable grader will feature electric…
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Caretaker Mobile Vegetable Sizing
With over 85 years of engineering experience, Tong has unrivaled experience in both designing and building the most gentle, efficient and advanced mobile potato &…
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Leading vegetable handling equipment manufacturer Tong Engineering has announced its latest product development, which will see advanced optical sorting options available on all new models of its popular fieldloader machine, the FieldLoad PRO. Designed to allow growers to effectively clean and load crop in-field and on-farm, the FieldLoad PRO is one of the latest Tong…
Read full storyCharles Tong wins Lifetime Achievement in Business Award
We’re delighted to announce that our Chairman, Charles Tong, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Business Award, which was presented at the East Lindsey Business Awards evening ceremony. Charles joined Tong Engineering in 1973, working as a machinist. Ten years later, he helped to design the first Caretaker grading system, which introduced large scale…
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Caretaker Potato Grading Line Tong Engineering is proud to have been selected as chosen supplier of an advanced Caretaker potato grading line for a well-known UK family owned agricultural business. The company farm and manage land throughout the UK and hold a strong focus on innovative farming for a sustainable future. This high capacity grading…
Read Case StudyPotato Sizing Line
One of the latest potato sizing line installations from Tong Engineering, high capacity throughput Caretaker sizing line, incorporating potato infeed hopper, Tong’s market leading EasyClean separator, EasyGrade potato and vegetable sizing screens and Tong Midi EasyFill potato and vegetable bin fillers. At the end of the system the Tong EasyLoad extending elevator gentle fills bulker…
Read full storyScoring 50 years as a member of the Tong ‘family’
When you have been growing as a family business for over 85 years, four generations, and in your ‘home’ Lincolnshire market-town of Spilsby, I guess it’s only natural that you have employees that have been a member of the company for many years? But 50 years of service with that same company, I’m sure you’ll…
Read full storyNew Zealand grower processes loads more onions!
Leading New Zealand grower, Bostock New Zealand, is now processing a whopping 100 tons of onions per hour. With new automated onion processing equipment from Tong Engineering, they have refined their processing. Bostock New Zealand Bostock are based in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. In what is claimed to be one of the cleanest and purest…
Read full storyMobile Carrot Sizing & Dirt Eliminating with the Tong Fieldloader
The newly designed Tong Fieldloader mobile vegetable dirt eliminator and sizer offers all the efficiencies and savings of Tong’s flagship mobile sizer, the Caretaker, with the added benefit of allowing growers to clean and inspect crop straight from the harvester and load directly into bulker trucks for onward travel and processing. This is the perfect…
Read full storyThe top 3 benefits of Automated Vegetable Handling | Making labour less laborious
Almost four months after the UK voted to leave the European Union, it is no secret that the agricultural and food manufacturing industries have questions about how the Brexit vote will effect vegetable growers and packers long-term, not just in terms of availability of migrant labour, but also in terms of EU subsidies and regulations. As…
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