Still wearing his military uniform from military service , Hans Harting utilize to Piet van Dijk in August 1978 , and the rest is history . Hans never left and eventually became a director . Now that Van Dijk warming has a new owner as well as a novel managing director as of this year , it is clock time for Hans to retire . And he is quick for it as he definitely does n’t want to " advert around too long " and has " plenty of plans . " " In that esteem , I am balking at the fact that I will ferment 67 soon . "
In Bunnik , Van Dijk heating does not produce their own motorcar but can tack and test them
Tipped off by growerAt Hans ' office one good afternoon in early December , some archive textile is on the mesa . Not the table so conversant to Hans , but one in a new office . Next to him , where Hans used to sit , now sits Freek van Rijn . Hans is happy to have set up a heir . " Together , we ’ve really been work for it this yr , " he says . He was happy to relinquish his older spot . " We are felicitous to have found someone with horticultural knowledge . "
Despite his impending departure , the old hand at Van Dijk heat still prefers to look onward rather than backward . Yet he does n’t quite escape revisiting the yesteryear when we sit down for coffee in Bunnik . Hans was Piet van Dijk ’s first employee . First in an attic in Bunnik , later on in a hire construction in Bunnik that antecedently put up a dental drill .
Hans in the office in his early years at Van Dijk heating system
focalize on greenhouse horticultureWhen he started , Hans already had some horticultural noesis . With a setting in electronics , he worked in Alphen aan den Rijn at what was then Lemkes , which would later be Royal . " I helped deploy the assimilation illume there , " he say . In Lemkes ' greenhouses , which Hans lived face-to-face , Van Dijk heating installed its 2nd condenser after it was founded . That was in 1977 , Hans remembers . " The cultivator then point out to Piet that earlier or afterward , he would no longer be able to do it on his own . ' I know someone else , ' he said . That was me . "
Between the clip Hans started at Van Dijk heating and now , a lot has changed . Not surprisingly , as he has been working for the company , which not only supplies fluke gas condensers , CO2 sets , and drain water decontaminators but also speciate in clime engineering science for greenhouse gardening these days , for almost 45 year now . At this year ’s GreenTech in Amsterdam , the company presented the Sorem , a Na remover . " We are already forge on Modern equipment to remove other substances as well . Furthermore , we need to descale up the Active Ventilation System ( AVS ) and also make it suitable for high mental ability . "
conversant facesDo not expect a factory in the building in Bunnik , which was vivify last year . The substantially refurbished role , one of Hans ' latest accomplishment as do director , does have a warehouse and a serving department , but when it comes to the veridical production , Van Dijk heating has been outsource that since its establishment . " It used to be in Piet ’s blood brother ’s horticultural shed in Nootdorp . That ’s where the retarders were made . now , they are made by other output companies . "
In his former years , Hans was in the office staff a lot . " I did back office , Piet mainly sale , " he says . later on , that was the other way around . " I also started doing sales . " Hans and Joek van der Zeeuw became the commercial-grade face of the troupe . " I have been work with Joek for about 30 years . He is slightly younger and made foreign sales , and I handle the Netherlands . " Recently , most customers were already informed about Hans ' going . " Joek is taking over my clients . There is no downside risk . He is as well known as I am . The fact that we have been figure out with the same mass for so long gives us confidence . "
TechiesIn 2004 , Hans bought in , along with three associates , include Joek . Founder Piet sack out . " He did n’t nonplus around after that either . I do n’t want him to either . " In late eld , the search for a new owner has been on without hurry . " We searched for an investor as if I had another ten years to go , " he says .
The choice fell on Greenhouse Technology Group . " A chemical group of immature , enthusiastic investor with a focus on horticultural technology , " the outgoing oversee director say already this spring . Before then , talks with Freek were already ongoing , Hans assures us in early December . " We are sometimes accused of not being commercial enough and of being too technical school - savvy . We like to talk about our devices . We deliberately face for someone who has the technical knowledge but also is n’t overwhelm in it . Freek can do that . He will really have an overarching office , while with Ton van Dijk a new man has come on board for sales . "
RationalAs presently as the contract bridge with the new proprietor was signed , Hans designate that he would stick around for one more twelvemonth . " I said , ' After one year , I ’m out . ' I have always been used to going into things head first . Freek and I have been able to ferment well together , but I do n’t cogitate it ’s in force if I keep hanging around . " If there are any questions , they can call . " But if that ’s too often , that would n’t be good . "
For after he fall by the wayside , Hans already has plenty of design . He loves motorcycling , recently buy a new motorbike , wants to take a course in economics - " just out of interest " - and also spend time with his children and grandchildren . And if something about ' the company ' does pop up in his drumhead ? " Then I ’ll broadcast Freek an e-mail , " he says . In the same rational room , he looks at caller when he shortly stops . " If customers call , then it ’s always honorable , even in the case of complaints . It ’s much worse if they stop calling . I will speak to them and put them through . "
trust in a good futureThe outgoing managing director has no vexation about leaving the troupe precisely at a somewhat more difficult time for gardening . " In the long term , I only see well things . Greenhouses will bear on to be build . I ’m indisputable of that . In gardening , you always have ups and down . In fact , the crisis of the 1980s was a huge boom period for us as a company . I have always said : ' The sales are there . You just have to reach out to them . " The slightly quieter time for Van Dijk heating also supply one little reward . " In hindsight , it does go out well . I just had a fleck more prison term to leave the organization well behind after the change . "
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