Green Products has grown massively in late years . There is , of course , no individual factor that explains this , but the fact is that the tireless efforts to sell are paying off . " After years of investment funds , our distributor have really direct to it . You then see that they also start to enjoy it , and that ’s when things startle to go fast , " say conductor Jan Dons of Green Products .
The company started some thirty years ago with the idea of selling machine to make paper pots for reforestation . These plugs would then have to be put out in deforested areas . " That was the father ’s melodic theme , " the men tell us . " We have develop in ornamental horticulture , but unluckily have limited natural action in re-afforestation . "
However , the qualification of plugs has never cease ; quite the contrary . " Our company has develop in the retiring five yr from 5 to 35 employees , new machines have been added , and we late opened a new office and a large 3500 - meter output floor . Six production dividing line run here , each of which can produce 80,000 stopple per hour in a two - shift system of rules . "
Jan Dons and Matthijs van lair Berg . Not pictured : Onno Boeren
Wet PeatGreen Product grow and sells ballyhoo to customers worldwide - primarily in the Netherlands and Germany , but also in Belgium , France , the Czech Republic , Canada , Africa , China , and many other nation . These plugs are delivered to the raiser ’s location under the name GreenPlug .
The plugs are made using a proficiency borrowed from the cigar and cigarette industry . A machine characteristic of the yield process is that the peat is very loaded when sue . " The peat always has a wet subject of 70 % and is therefore very wet . We top the substrate into a gutter , where the paper is fold around it , as it were . This way , you get a gracious homogeneous leveling and you also reinforce the hairlike result within the substratum . The capillary action is lower with drier peat , making peat more repellent . The homogenous filling of the paper pots and the beneficial capillary action of the peat particle ensure a absolutely draining plug , allowing our customer to be in ascendance of the wet level of the plug . "
The machines revolve 60 cm cigarettes . These are then cut into 35 millimeter piece .
According to the gentlemen , the vantage of Green Products ' technique is that comparatively moist soil particles are position on top of each other like building blocks . " Our soil variety contain near no detritus particles and have a relatively fix fraction sizing . This method acting entail that our GreenPlug retains an heart-to-heart structure ; small ' air enclosed space ' do not become blocked by detritus particles or other material . Our GreenPlugs are dimensionally unchanging , so our client delivers a utterly shaped plug ( with original diameter ) with a frozen plant to his customer . "
Eliminating risksDespite the fact that a issue of companies choose to produce their own paperpots , the bulk of untried flora propagators continue to outsource the specialist work , Matthijs and Jan follow . " The GreenPlug has to be perfect in the base and , as a parcel of the full toll Leontyne Price of a vernal plant , has a comparatively depleted cost ( an unrooted cut is much more expensive ) . However , no conceding can be made on quality or delivery reliability . Our vision is that a relatively expensive press clipping should n’t die because it did not have a just nutrient medium , nor should a production backlog ( for instance due to technical defect ) result in the film editing lying around longer . Because we work with six big production strain , we always have a musical accompaniment . Our technical colleague unendingly focus on make our output scheme work as efficiently as potential . That is our intellect for being : reliability of supply . "
At peak times , Green Products go 50 pallet a Clarence Day , or 250 pallets a week .
accord to Jan , Green Products ' unburdens ' client through seasonable delivery , convenience , advice in the broadest sentiency , and vouch timbre . " We prefer to go into the greenhouse with them and we like to remember along with them . " Several colleagues travel far and panoptic to do just that . " We set high measure for our raw materials . Together with our ( soil ) suppliers , we are very critical of the quality . We have at least 50 dissimilar mixtures uncommitted , mainly customer - specific . If a customer comes to us tomorrow with a specific wish , we will make an adaptation . This always meets the wishes of the plant and our customers down to the last contingent . Customers can numerate on a absolutely homogenous make full plug , often with millions of plugs per delivery . "
At the Green Products power
Peat free"The demand for GreenPlugs continues to arise . A question for the future - we will plausibly talk about it more extensively at another time - is the demand for peat . " The demand for sustainable products also continues to grow , the humanity see . For reason of sustainability and social critique , the market is more and more count at how it can bring forth without peat . " We are fully betroth in the development of peat - gratis products to obtain a ware that can meet the requirements of legislating and the demand of customer , but that does not compromise on the quality of the plug . However , exactly how this will develop is still the interrogation . "
For more information : Jan Dons en Matthijs van lair BergGreen Products B.V.[email protected]www.greenproducts.nl
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