When he made his round through the nursery with his married woman during the open days in the Westland , Kees de Groot was always looking upwards . How are the connections ? Is there a wetting ? " From leakages , you find out the most . "
His house was filled with notes about coupling objet d’art and sealing profiles - the paper ’s edges were filled with minor drawings . Now , at 79 year , ideas still fill the head of the humanity who often is concern to as one of the founders of the modern gardening .
Voskamp and VrijlandKees start his carreer with greenhouse builder Onderwater , who was working for Voskamp and Vrijland . Kees quickly ended up with V&V , where he influence his way up to become director . " Voskamp en Vrijland was the largest greenhouse detergent builder in the world , especially because clients overseas preferred the largest company . Other company were much smaller . Only after the failure on 1985 , smaller glasshouse builders got the chance to grow . "
Kees remember the bankruptcy as a difficult metre . " It was a declamatory chaos . Suppliers were at the logic gate with orders and we had to turn them aside . All projects ground to a stop . The project almost finished , we sometimes we permit to finish up , the rest was being taken over by other greenhouse constructor . " One of those others was Wanders . After the failure , Kees start working there .
A moving-picture show of the time at Wanders : go forth Kees de Groot , right Henk Langeberg .
AlkuproAnother couple of yr later , Kees part his own ship’s company : Alkupro . He worked on various innovation , such as a greenhouse deal systems . Many projects are have-to doe with to . " We were all over the lieu . We have had the integral EU and also lead to the United States , China , and Japan . In Arizona , we constructed an enormous project , divided in fields of 10 hectare . There was so much stuff that at some point it was unsufferable to come up anything . A bad affair was that materials were also being slip . "
" In Germany , I recognise that well - constructed things were very much apprise . " And that is exactly what drives Kees . As a true discoverer , he was always reap . " In Germany , they were not specially fond of atomic number 13 gutters . So I made an improved version of a steel gutter . Although thirty class ago , the invention is still being used . "
Wheels keep on turningWhat Kees is missing from those daytime ? " The time with my married woman and nipper . I used to be aside a lot . ' When house De Groot went on holiday , a stack of oeuvre went along . " My ideas must get out of my point . The steering wheel are always deform , because there is so much possible in the greenhouse horticulture , but the thing is , it can never cost the grower much . " That requires originative solutions . " We have to make something different than others , " is one of Kees ' illustrious verbal expression .
With Shaniel Raghoenath
3D - printerIn the last six years , he can take his ideas to Dutch Agro Systems , the company he establish together with former Alkupro co-worker Shaniel Raghoenath . This company supplies systems to greenhouse builders and also designs new system . Recently , structure started on a construction in Bergschenhoek .
Kees : " During the first two years , we only grow . " A 3D - printer was buy to test imagine - up connectedness in practice . Kees sleep together that . " We have been able to solve many problems with this . During growth , you could make serious mistakes , so a set of thinking precedes it . "
Greenhouse grammatical construction in the futureThe Netherlands is the ultimate nursery construction country , and this will remain so according to Kees . " It is fantastic how much impact the little Netherlands have on the worldwide horticulture . You also have greenhouse detergent builder abroad , but there are often problems . They miss the real expertness . "
" I cerebrate that we can work out with Modern materials in the future tense - we already went from wood to blade to aluminum - and newfangled systems . solidness is one of the properties of Kees ' inventions . It has to be strong , storm repellent and loose to establish . Shaniel and Kees pass the most attention to the last peak . Assembly problems must be preclude as much as possible , so they work on systems which are , in their own words , ' asshole - proof ' .
This is the 5th installation in a series of ' Andere Tuinbouwtijden ' , in which various ' old hats ' look back at time go , and in which we investigate what their work intend for the horticulture now .
Part 1 : Rob Grootscholten -42 class of greenhouse structure … Part 2 : Peter Stuyt -As a Dutch - American , I wish to combine … Part 3 : Leo Alsemgeest -Bit by bit a step backPart 4 : Harry Dullemans -Never say you ’re not there …
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