Food engineering consortium develops UK’s first sprout processing machine
A consortium of British scientists and agricultural companies put their heads together to develop a machine that would process Brussel Sprouts for the ‘ready to cook’ market in the UK, with the potential of saving 800 food miles.
- Worked in partnership – project managing design and build
- Developed a agriculturally robust automatic processing machine
- Co-ordinated interests of inventor, engineer, farmer and trade organisations
- Enabled quicker, easier and cheaper sprout processing