Last Thursday afternoon HilverdaFlorist celebrated and officially opened the opening of its new production location with the " The Future is HERE " upshot .
Some doubt about a grand jubilation was definitively present , given the difficult food market conditions , but as Arthur Koekoek stated during an opening manner of speaking , " specially now it is all the more important to persevere together . We have to do this together . "
Arthur Koekoek , Directeur Operations , R&D and Supply Chain
The Director of Operations , R&D and Supply Chain then turn to the technical face of the greenhouse . It is an telling spell of work that is future tense - validation . " These greenhouses are ready for the future , " he said . That ’s why the report of the opening was " The Future is HERE .
Several class ago , the stock breeder and young plant producer had the chance to buy a orotund piece of music of terra firma from its neighbors . This was even before the merger ( of HilverdaKooij and Florist Holland in force March 1 , 2020 officially ) . Of the two companies , one benefited from enlargement and the other from a piece of modernization . With this unexampled location , both have happen .
Jan Hazen , alderman for the Municipality of Uithoorn , utter about the preliminary process of the new building
extraneous branchesIn addition to its headquarters in the Netherlands , the company also has branches abroad . Arthur underline the importance of these locating which are located in Kenya , India and Colombia .
In India , a fourth laboratory social unit will go into production this year to produce an additional 20 million plants . In Kenya , plans are presently being made to build a completely new greenhouse complex at a new location , and new greenhouses are also being build in Colombia . This is to supply the European marketplace but also local market in the countries themselves .
Planned before the crisisThe plans for and with the new grammatical construction had been made before the crisis . " Normally we would have pronounce , if the gas price is above 45 cents , you well stop right away . And here we are anyway . And specially at a time like this , we see how much we profit from our foreign branches . Now more than ever it just gives us a mickle of constancy . "
A peek inside the glasshouse with the automatic rapture organization
The integral nursery is design with the aim of growing in an energy - efficient way . This enables the agriculturist to save 10 - 15 % on wet remotion because the air travel is much dryer , which in turn save on heating costs . There is diffused glass on the deck and sieve are put in underneath , check with PAR Perfect system . This makes the screens boundlessly adjustable . The nursery is also fit with a fully automatic transport organisation .
pass tourAfter the delivery , tours were done in group . Finally , there was metre for a snack and a drink . It was special that four generation of Hilverda - Eveleens were present at the opening .
Emmy Hilverda - van der Boon , whose sire is the founding father of HilverdaFlorist , attended the opening along with her girl Johanna , granddaughters Barbara and Karina , and expectant - grandchild Alexander .
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