Projects

Support From Design to Installation & Beyond

Tolsma offers a fully integrated approach to designing and installing storage solutions, working closely with clients and local craftsmen. Recently, we installed various units in Australia with a focus on efficiency and energy savings, such as QCC and QML units for the storage of seed potatoes. These systems provide automated climate control and deliver benefits such as faster drying and curing of seed potatoes, improved control, and labor savings 

New processing line for table potatoes in Bayern, southern Germany

A project has been completed in southern Germany for the processing of table potatoes. The processing line is spread over three halls and is divided into receiving, washing and sorting and packaging.

Potato processing project in China

By the end of 2022, in a well-known potato growing area in China, the factory buildings were ready to be furnished with a Grisnich receiving, cleaning and sorting plant. The delivery scope of this project consisted of as many as 37 sea containers shipped from Emmeloord to China. The plant will eventually process potatoes into potato specialities and chips.

“With the new storage I have much more control over the quality of the garlic”

In Brunémont, in the department “du Nord” of France, Olivier Drubay specializes in the cultivation of garlic, onions and shallots on loamy to light clay soils in the valley of the river Sensée. After cultivation, the product is dried, cooled and stored and a whole range of manual processing takes place with 10 permanent and 40 temporary employees. Cleaning, sorting, braiding and smoking in special smoking chambers with beech wood is a special process. Finally, the smoked garlic, but also the shallots and onions, are packed for the supermarket. The result is a unique product in terms of shelf life and taste from the region, where Drubay is proud of. In the newly built storage, onions, shallots and garlic are stored and can be ventilated, dried and cooled.

"Are those EC fans really that much more economical?"

Mark Grubben is an arable farmer in Swifterbant, the Netherlands, where he stores produce at 2 locations. The products he grows and stores himself are 25 ha of ware potatoes and 45 ha of red and yellow seed onions. Other crops are also grown as e.g. cereals.