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Download PDF Celebrating 25 years since it first set up, supplying machines to UK potato growers, Grimme UK now dominates the British root-crop harvesting market. CPM tracks some of the product development that helped achieve this. There’s always been an innovation infrastructure at Grimme UK that’s encouraged new ideas to come forward. By Tom Allen-Stevens When Grimme UK first started trading 25 years ago, there was little doubt it was going to be a successful business. But sealing that success and allowing the business to grow and dominate the root-harvesting sector in the UK have involved a series of innovations specifically tailored to the UK market. “Grimme is a company with a 156-year history, and Grimme UK was the first daughter company set up by the German parent,” explains the company’s marketing manager Adam Johnson. “The root-harvesting market potential was huge and everyone recognised that the UK was an important player in the potato sector.” Key for the UK market was a trailed machine with a straight-through separation system. Grimme kit was already well established, with over 50% of the UK potato crop at the time passing through the red-liveried machines. These were imported by Pearson, but the company was…
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