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Tong Engineering, the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of quality vegetable handling equipment has launched its latest innovation in crop dirt eliminating with the new EasyClean Hydro-Sep. Designed for the vegetable processing market the new EasyClean Hydro-Sep offers growers, processors and packers the ultimate crop dirt eliminating solutions with exceptionally effective dirt eliminating results. It also helps to…

Tong Engineering is celebrating its 85th anniversary in 2015. The family run business, which has a turnover of around £13 million per year and exports to more than 20 countries worldwide, is entering 2015 with an upgraded model of its flagship Caretaker Mobile Grader, which was originally launched back in 1980s. The Spilsby based company…

Tong has boosted its sales team with the appointment of a new area sales manager who will help drive sales in 2015. Steven Skipper has over 25 years experience and has worked for UK machinery manufacturers in the agricultural, food processing and recycling industries. Steven will be using this wealth of experience to support the sales…

Tong Engineering, one of the world’s leading vegetable handling equipment manufacturers, is enhancing its business in the French market by appointing a full time Sales Executive to service new and existing customers. The company, which has been manufacturing quality vegetable handling equipment for more than 80 years, has recently appointed French sales and engineering professional…

When Elveden Farms needed to upgrade their onion processing equipment in order to increase throughput they looked to the UK’s most established vegetable handling equipment manufacturers, Tong, for help. Working from the Elveden Estate in Thetford, on the Norfolk/Suffolk Border, the farm extends to over 10,000 acres, making it one of the largest single farm…

Tong Engineering, the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of grading and handling equipment for the vegetable industry, has announced its appointment as the UK distributor for Swedish firm AGEC’s innovative AGRISEP stone and clod separator. Using the latest infrared technology built into its optical scanning system, the AGRISEP detects clods, stones, wood or other inorganic…

Continuing its strong start to 2014, Tong is adding a new, state-of-the-art update to its popular Lift Roller Sizer. The UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of handling and sorting equipment for the vegetable industry will now offer its Auto-Touch HMI controls on all new models of its lift roller grading machines. The company’s Auto-Touch touchscreen…

With the need to process different varieties, family-run firm K.W.Naylor & Son decided to invest in flexible handling machinery, to separate, grade and clean their full range of crops. Based near Spalding in Lincolnshire, K.W. Naylor & Son processes a wide range of flowering bulbs and maincrop potatoes, which are sold and distributed to supermarkets…

With low yields, high production costs and some of the most extreme handling conditions for well over 30 years, the harvest period has been a testing time for the UK potato industry and is the subject of much conversation at the moment! These extreme conditions have sparked demand for versatile handling machinery, which has taken…

With the need to process an increasing quantity of specialist salad potatoes, Bayard Distribution needed to invest in specialist handling equipment which could separate differing crop sizes, whilst grading, cleaning and keeping the potatoes in optimum condition. Based in Picardie, France, Bayard Distribution’s potato production processes over 12 varieties of salads on over 200 acres…