DormFresh

What DormFresh does

DormFresh is a UK-based, privately held agricultural products company founded in 2000 that specializes in dormancy-enhancing and sprout-inhibiting treatments for stored potatoes. Its products target operators in the potato storage industry — packers, storage facility managers, and processors — who need to suppress sprouting and preserve tuber quality across extended storage periods between harvest and sale. The company operates at a small scale with 11-50 employees and a single web presence at dormfresh.co.uk.

The underlying product category is specialty agrochemistry applied post-harvest; sprout-inhibitor and dormancy-enhancer formulations are typically applied as fogs, dusts, or liquid treatments in bulk potato stores. No additional detail on active ingredients, registered trademarks, formulation technology, or distribution channels is available from current source material, as the company website renders only a verification/loading screen and no first-party product information was returned.

The business model is consistent with a B2B specialty input supplier: DormFresh sells chemical treatments to commercial potato storage operators, presumably on a per-tonne-treated or per-store basis, with revenue driven by stored-crop volumes across its served geographies. However, no pricing model, customer segments, geographic footprint, channel structure, or revenue mechanics are disclosed in the available data, leaving the commercial model largely inferred from industry norms rather than confirmed.

Name

DormFresh

Website

https://dormfresh.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

DormFresh is a UK-based, privately held agrochemical company founded in 2000 that develops dormancy-enhancing and sprout-inhibiting products for commercial potato storage operators across the post-harvest storage supply chain.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Potato Storage Agricultural Products

NAICS

Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning) (115114), Potato Farming (111211)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Curing & Drying Storage for Bulb/Tuber Crops (Onions, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes) (AFAOAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Root & Tuber Vegetable Farming (Carrots, Beets, Radish, Turnip, Sweet Potato) (AFAGADAC)

Keywords

• Potato sprout inhibitors
• Potato dormancy products
• Agricultural crop protection
• Potato storage solutions
• Post-harvest potato treatment

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Core offering

DormFresh develops and supplies agricultural products that enhance potato dormancy and inhibit sprouting during storage. The products are designed for commercial use in the potato storage industry, helping operators preserve tuber quality between harvest and end use. The company manufactures these agricultural inputs rather than operating a software, marketplace, or service platform.

Product overview

Unable to determine product offerings from available source data. The source page displayed only a loading/verification screen with no accessible company information.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Potato Dormancy-Enhancing and Sprout-Inhibiting Agricultural Products

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Direct peers

• Restrain Company: Restrain offers ethylene-based sprout suppression and storage-management solutions for stored potatoes. Its product and customer use case directly overlap DormFresh's dormancy and sprout-inhibition proposition.
• 1,4Group: 1,4Group develops the 1,4SIGHT line and related potato-storage sprout-control products based on 1,4-dimethylnaphthalene. It is a direct category peer in the same potato-storage and sprout-management market.

Broad incumbents

• Certis Belchim: Certis Belchim provides crop-protection and post-harvest solutions to agricultural markets. Its broad input portfolio and channel overlap make it a broad incumbent comparable to DormFresh's agricultural-treatment offering, but it is not a narrow potato-storage specialist.
• ADAMA: ADAMA supplies crop-protection products and agricultural inputs globally. It is a broad incumbent whose treatment portfolio and distribution reach overlap with DormFresh's agricultural-product positioning, though not its narrow storage niche.
• AgroFresh Solutions: AgroFresh provides post-harvest freshness, storage, and quality-management technologies across produce categories. It is a broad incumbent with related storage-treatment technology and customer overlap, although its portfolio is wider than potato-specific sprout control.
• Syngenta: Syngenta serves potato growers through seed and crop-protection offerings. It is a broad incumbent with customer and agronomic-channel overlap, but its potato-storage sprout control is less direct than Restrain or 1,4Group.
• Nufarm: Nufarm provides crop-protection and specialty agricultural inputs to growers. It is a broad incumbent comparable at the agricultural-input and crop-treatment level, but it is not a dedicated potato-storage sprout-control peer.
• UPL: UPL is a global crop-protection and agricultural-solutions provider. It is a broad incumbent with overlap in crop treatment and grower and storage channels, but less focus on DormFresh's specific potato-dormancy niche.

Emerging players

• Apeel Sciences: Apeel Sciences develops edible coatings and post-harvest technologies intended to extend produce shelf life. It is an adjacent emerging comparator around spoilage reduction and storage economics, rather than a direct potato sprout-inhibition competitor.
• Hazel Technologies: Hazel Technologies develops post-harvest shelf-life and freshness-extension solutions for fresh produce. It is an emerging player with partial overlap in storage-quality management, but its focus is broader and not specifically potato dormancy.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dormfresh-limited

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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