In Westland HortiTech , Harmoniz , and Metazet have found a glasshouse that they will conjointly have converted into an R&D glasshouse . The changeover is now in full swing . Last Friday , the official launching of the undertaking with ( grammatical construction ) partners took plaza . " We are our own consulting firm , " laughs Pim van Adrichem of HortiTech . The prescribed possibility will follow in 2024 . By then , the cultivation of Lisianthus in the glasshouse in Honselersdijk will have been completely change for all kinds of demonstration crops .
Signatures with building partner .
HortiTech has had the aspiration to start a innovative , unexampled R&D glasshouse for some meter . Together with Harmoniz and Metazet , they had their eye on the nursery at Floralis Lisianthus Nursery . They are wrapping up cultivation until the end of the year , but in the meantime , they are already collapse the company all the space it need to convert . " The growers are totally on board with our program , " he says .
Well - equippedThe greenhouse at Gantellaan 8 is 5.8 meters high , with a CHP system , lighting , 400 solar panels on the shed , and an OCAP CO2 - connector . " It is a sizeable nursery for what we are going to do , " recognize Peet van Adrichem . Together with his sons Pim and Perry , he founded HortiTech in 2019 . Not long after , Ary de Jong joined them . " We are lease a risk , but we can do that with the experience we have , " Peet say .
The changeover of part of the glasshouse is already in full swing .
The three partners are grease one’s palms the nursery together and will carry out action such as raising and innovation testing under the watchful middle of HortiTech . In Metazet ’s typesetter’s case , that means testing and establish their own innovations in a practical greenhouse surround . Luke van Adrichem : " We want our products to meet the growers ' needs as nearly as potential . We have always traditionally done this by literally and figuratively working together , on - site with the growers . "
But besides working on - site , the gardening of the future call for more , the Metazet CEO know . " If a possible cultivation innovation is conceived , you want it to be substantiated and not just experimenting on several hectares in a commercial nursery . give birth your own glasshouse where representative polish can be done on a smaller scale means you’re able to test more quickly and copy more extreme situations . This accelerates innovation and underpin it more exhaustively . "
" peculiarly effective investment for all three"The activities of the breeding company Harmoniz will start first . The earthwork in progress during the official construction start will take spot in the part of the nursery where the breeding companionship ’s Lycopersicon esculentum will soon be the first to turn . Currently , this is still the case at a rented locating in a commercial-grade tomato - grow facility elsewhere in Westland .
Harmoniz has been actively seeking its own R&D location since 2021 . This was when the tangency with HortiTech was also established . The company want to integrate all its gentility action for modern , high - technical school tomato finish at the Honselersdijk location . There will be a selection of glasshouse , grumpy - breeding greenhouses , and a propagation area .
" We do n’t need 3 or 5 hectares for our fosterage goal , but we do postulate a nursery that meets the touchstone for modern glasshouse vegetable cultivation , " say Paul van Dijck , General Manager of Harmoniz Netherlands . " The size of this troupe , over 1.6 hectare , the infrastructure , and the combining with the other partners HortiTech and Metazet take a shit it a particularly efficient investing for all three . The space is used in the best possible way , and we can make use of each other ’s knowledge and electronic web , which can produce a synergy effect . "
Connecting with agriculturalist practiceHortiTech itself is bet on the approaching summer season . It chiefly wants to test proficient innovations with " long - term enquiry collaborator " but will not shy away from testing its own ideas either . For this intent , glasshouse compartments in various size of it from 200 to 600 square metre are available . " That elbow room , undertaking are better aligned with growers ' practices , " Peet knows . " Our aim is not to run a project ensue in the passport for a unexampled labor . We are investing immediately in practical upshot . "
Through the principle of ' you ask , we do , ' the intention is to put up the chance for doing one ’s own projects . The existing lighting will be remove during the rebirth . compartment can be technically arrange for projects as required . In doing so , in rule , nothing is too crazy . " In the old demonstration greenhouse ( on Zwethlaan ed . ) , we also once take the methamphetamine hydrochloride out of the deck for a trial run with haze glass , " Peet recalls . Something interchangeable could also be done at Gantellaan . " Furthermore , we have good soil here , so soil - based cultivation is also possible . "
introduction of the plans by Perry van Adrichem .
Multiple realise modelsGreenhouse projects are an important branch of the future R&D greenhouse , but not the only goal . " We are investing in multiple revenue exemplar per straight m , " signal Pim . HortiTech is also dynamic in providing preparation and involved in the growing of demonstration nerve centre abroad . " We get a set of interrogative from abroad about how you do it run a demonstration inwardness . A demo center can take areas to a high level when it come in to horticulture . Here in Honselersdijk , we will before long be able to show that and also train people so they can safely make error . With our own R&D nursery , we can standardize training . "
It is in spades not the intention of HortiTech and the better half in the project to get in the agency of live demo nerve center . " We will not become a public middle in which the public take the air in and out . The World Horti Center remains the designated location for that . Growers and technical parties can visit us by appointment . "
EnquiryGrowers will also link trial . HortiTech also hopes that the novel glasshouse will become a author of information on mechanization issues . " There are many such head among grower , " Peet knows . " Between robotics and manual labor , there is also one simpler medium whole tone : automation . We can play a positive role in this . We bridge the gap between rudimentary research and commercial-grade practical software program . "
For more data : Pim van AdrichemHortiTech[email protected]www.horti - tech.com
Luke van AdrichemMetazet[email protected]www.metazetformflex.nl
Paul van Dijck , VP Sales & MarketingHarmoniz[email protected]www.harmonizseed.com
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