IPM Essen, techniek 2019

Luiten Greenhouses and Saarlucon stood at their familiar place at IPM Essen, this time with a renewed stand. Starting from the left: Kick Jansen, Tina Wu, Ronald Kloppenburg, Irmgard Luiten, Ruud den Engelsman, Nico Luiten, Oscar Nijman, Twan Leurs and Michel Saarloos.

Peter Dekker (PDI), Mariska Slaman (PDI) and Mark Verdouw (Olsthoorn Greenhouse Projects)

John Meijer & Lodewijk Wardenburg with Bom Group

Marco Geeratz, Bart Bakker & Joost Haenen all joined Svensson last year

It's bright and there's strawberries all over - that must be the Parus team on the exhibition floor!

The company brought their new strawberry system.

Spotted in the paths: Henk Bot & Erik de Ruiter

Jef van Gorp & Tom Vermeulen with Roam Technologies, showing the Huwa-San product to dealers and growers.

Fluence brought their bright lamps and as usual on the trade show many visitors took the time to check them out.

Visited by their friends from Prayon: Dave Pinxteren & Kurt Verhelst.

Koen Vangorp with Mechatronix, showing the CoolGrow VF. This solution offers growers a way to do flexible LED-research in an affordable way.

Remarkable: there are no LED-strips, but the LEDs are within the glass.

The Mechatronix team.

Jorg Swagemakers (Van Krimpen) with the biggest ornamental pot in the new series Elegance in the trend color cane green. The series includes pots from 15-38 centimeters diameter.

The Menno team showing the disinfection Menno foam.

Deforche Construct

Van Krimpen also brought a orchids pot with QR-code for better tracing. UV-light is needed to see the codes on the pot.

Jack Vijverberg (Van der Valk Horti Systems)

Peter Tanke and Berry Zuiderwijk (Holland Tuinbouw Systemen) under the Sunroof TD, a cabriolet greenhouse.

Senmatic brought a preview of the new Superlink 6 program to the show

Morten Hjorth shows how the program works intuitive and is easy to manage, something that was given a lot of attention by Senmatic. The new Superlink 6 will be available in April.

Viscon/ Aimfresh with a diverse range of new concepts including the Waterwick, a watering system for at home, The Gardians as e-commerce concept for plants and Dip & Grow: an organic mossball from which up to five times a head of lettuce will grow. Starting from the left: Tessa Spek, Dustin Pietersen, Bart den Hertog, Amanda Liu and Turi Daelmans.

Couldn't walk through the paths in hall 3? Then the Autostix demo must be going on. Visser Horti Systems showed many visitors the innovative system.

Sven Büttner, Roland Will, Angelina Imprescia, Martine Vos and Pascalle Lahay (Rootbarrier) brought bio covers against weeds to IPM Essen.

The Richel team as always on their spot on the show.

Steven Adriaense & Toon Thijs with Van Looveren. Recently the company showed in a video how greenhouse glass is being produced: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9054149/this-is-how-your-greenhouse-glass-is-being-produced/

Peter du Crocq en Paulo Zonneveld (Van der Eng)

Wiktor Paijkull with Heliospectra

Almost forgotten: a new soft fruit pot for Van Krimpen, here showed by Joost Thijssen.

The ViVi team with Daan Mansveld & Rene de Vos was joined by the team of Agrigarden to discuss with us the opportunities in vertical farming in and outside China.

Team TTA: Bram, Jan, Adrie, Geert, Steve en Peter.

Joost van Rooij with Paskal Nederland.

Louis Damm & Kurt Becker with Dramm

Mazinus van Dijk en Annegré van Noort (MDE Machinebouw)

Hans Baekelmans, Ritvars Veģis, Matthias Rodeyns, Nele Ameloot, Hanne Denaeghel and Peter Sallaets (Greenyard Horticulture) with a teaser about the release of their new company name.

The Sananlight solution

Tino Mosler, showing the MMM solutions.

Fischer, German provider of energy screens.

Oliver Dorr

The heart of Knauff! In the photo Daniel Hatterscheid with Dirk Mühlenweg

Christian Oosterlaan (HortiHands/Pack TTI) with a flexible solution to cut and harvest microgreens and herbs in vertical farming growing facilities.

Stefan Schmidt with Rien van Leeuwen & Dirk Mühlenweg

A new face by EMS: Kees Gunter (front left) will start in the flower bulbs, while Peterjan Goedegebuure and Jan-Kees Boerman were present as well.

Jan Willem Lut of Sercom joined by Jan Wijgerse of Agrofim.

Tim Kreuger with Alumat Zeeman & Gijs Solleveld, APS Holland.

Jan-Bernd Brunken, ANdrzej Fabisiak & Timo Gerdes with Otte Metalbau.

Smiemans Projecten, obviously designing a nice greenhouse project again.

Joost Haenen (Ludwig Svensson), Carla Cox (Mertens), Mat Versleijen (Mertens), Bart Joosten (Mertens) and Cor-Jan van der Elzen (Carbon Gold).

Melanie Hutzen, Rene Focke & Julia Roling with Klassman Deilman

Their virtual reality experience made it possible to visit the production sites of the company.

Jan Vos (Priva) and Henk Daniëls (Cogas Zuid) posed together in their shared booth.

Els Schrauwen visits Alfred Boot with Herkuplast.

Last but not least: Carlos Garcia & Marko Jaakkola with Novarbo.

And the team of Van der Knaap Solutions - smiling even at the end of the day!

Paul Blom and Raymond van den Berg (ISO Group) in front of the ISO Cutting Planter 2500.

Horticoop and Lentse & Slingerland Potgrond with on the picture Claudia Zuur, Marcel Weinans, Jeroen Dunant, Ben Hoogendoorn and Tom Zwijsen.

Malcolm Calder (Transplant Systems), Gertie Rongen (Limex Cleaning Solutions) and Joep Janssen (Limex Cleaning Solutions).

Limex showed their tray washing machine for orchids cask.

NP Plastics with their new Plamboe label plug from recycled plastic and in a 100% elephant grass organic variant.

Royal Brinkman introduced HortiHygienz, a new hygiene concept. Raisa Weterings, Jan Willem Keijzer and Esther van Winden.

Team ViVi: Christian Wolthaus, Daan Mansveld and Bart den Hertog.

Dennis Tuk and Levi Trouwborst: two new faces by Visser Horti Systems. The company organised demonstrations with the AutoStix and the new multimedia and rooted strips.

Het team van Unifortes

Simone Dekker, Ulrike Meyer-Reiners en Ella Rijnsent (Memon) probably will use this picture for their company calendar, isn’t it?

Lieven Wouters (Fertikal)

Jack van Batenburg and Peter Zethof (Shakti Cocos) brought cocos and a Tuktuk.

Edwin van Dorst (Bato Plastics), Raymond van Mierlo (Bato Plastics) and Alejandro Sáenz (Sáenz Fety)

The work must go on: VTI Horst.

Anton Hulsegge and Heleen Hofstra (Howitec Netting).

Jolanda Nieuwenhuijze (Valstar Plantenkwekerij), Cees van Luling and Marianne Duivenvoorden (Royal FloraHolland).

Arco van der Hout (Valstar Plantenkwekerij) in the ‘vegetable corner’ of the booth.

Jan Peters en Nenad Stojadinovic (Alfa Pro IT): well known in floriculture, but also taking steps in fresh produce. Knowing what’s in stocks is useful everywhere.

Ceciel de Keijser, Gabriëlle van Dam and Hans van der Knaap (Van der Windt)

Sercom with Hugo Nijgh, Ignacio Rodríguez Gracia and Jan-Willem Lut.

Malcolm Calder (Transplant Systems), Didier Liot (Demaitere SAS), Stefaan Vandaele (Demtec) and Geert Desmadryl (Demtec).

Oerlemans Plastics: Joan Hanegraaf, Henri van Hemert and Piet van den Oord.

Jürgen Rost, Marc de Bruin and Robert Bartkowiak (Jiffy). Marc shows a campanula grown in a Jiffy pot from young plant up to end product.

Colleagues from the United Kingdom (NIAB), Germany (Bundessortenamt), France (GEVES) and the Netherlands (Naktuinbouw).

Maurice Stals (Kwekerij Stals) and Peter Wicke (Vermako).

Ammerlaan Construction shared a booth with Light4Food. On the picture Jos Groenewegen, Mariëlle Cuppen and Ronald Thijssen.

MJ Tech Fogsystems: Peter van den Bemd and Aad Verduijn

Wilfred Lange (Metazet FormFlex)

Randy Leferink and Willy Homma (Atoplan Projects)

Kamil Wozniak of Tek, a Polish company producing labels and pockets for seeds. The sachets made of grass paper, containing 50% grass, are new in the assortment

Manuele Kretzschmar-d’Heureuse, Intrachme. This German company is specialized in the production and distribution of fungicides and organic fertilizers. Right at the fair, news came the patent pending of this new biological fungicide Romeo was approved

Vikas Agarwal, Shakti Polyweave, a company from India producing ground covers and nets. Europe is a far bigger market than India, however the domestic market is gaining importance

Andreas Wilsberg and Michel Klein, Vossloh-Schwabe. This company is a member of the Panasonic group and specializes in technical solutions lamp producers need

The foil Polifilm has many adventages as compared to the traditional foil. Just ask these guys, Ivan Garayar and Pierre Michiel Klaus.

To prevent erosion of borders, parkinglots and other environments, Adam Zalewski and Monika Madejek from the Polish company Stella Green have the right solution.

Paul van Gils of Mardenkro as always ... bright and shiny

The team of Kekkilä BVB.BVB Substrates has been producing substrates of the highest quality for a century. To serve customers even better with sustainable solutions, BVB Substrates is joining forces with Kekkilä, a subsidiary of the Finnish company Vapo Oy.

Pascal den Heijer (Holland Screens) and Peter Rense (Holland Scherming)

Peter van der Knaap, Jenny Swarts, Martin Stolze (look at his nice shoes!) and Willem Kuijvenhoven of Martin Stolze bv

Marcel Schulte of Holland Gaas

Arnold Bol, Irina Stegeman and Peter Lexmond of Meteor Systems

Cheers with a good cup of coffee at the early morning!
Henry Mast of Ellepot and Pieter Rienstra of GlobalGreenPact

Ralf Stevens and Markus Moehler of Lock Drives

KG Systems / KG Greenhouses

Mao Lui, Dick Verweij and Twan van den Berg of Van der Knaap

Top Control of Van der Knaap

Annelies Michiels and Jeffrey Huiskes of Flier Systems. Flier used a interactive system to present their Fl'ex sorting line. Jeffrey:"The automated Fl’ex Sorting line for cuttings carries out continuous and uniform grading of the propagation material."

Have a look in Ridder's booth

Van der Valk Horti Systems develops and produces ventilation mechanisms and screen systems

:-) What's in a name ... look for the differences
Arjan van der Meer (Gakon) and Arjan van der Veer (IFG Cresco / Phormium)

Biobest

Logitec Plus:
Mark van der Zande, Nathalie Barnhoorn and Jacques Bakker

Logitec Plus brought a special 'table' into their booth. This fibre cutter is a strong machine, so covered like a table for this event.

Steenks Services .. no lack of interest

Lodewijk Wardenburg of Bom Group

Ludvig Svensson with Bart Bakker

Signify unveiled its new concept for the Philips GreenPower LED toplighting compact. This compact, passively cooled LED toplighting provides a 1-to-1 replacement for HPS lighting that fits seamlessly in existing HPS connections and trellis constructions. The goal is to make it easier for growers to make the switch to LED lighting as a way to improve their crop results or reduce energy costs.

Kim Oosterom and Maarten van Hagen of Houweling

Erfgoed is doing good business.

Peter de Boer and Wijnand Visser of Cyklop

Fred van Veldhoven of Benfried

Vincent van den Dool of TC van den Dool, has experience in the lifting and renovation of greenhouses

Gideon de Jager of Codema

Richard Priestly, Richard Fox, Vasile Agache of Neame Lea Nursery with Bernardo Greeve of KG Greenhouses

Dave Debets of DS HortiTrade and Debets Schalke

Javo

Arno van der Maarel (Maarel Orchids) and Gert-Jan van Staelduinen (Logiqs)

Hortisecur - Gartenbau Versicherung

Hogervorst Tabben

IFG Cresco / Phormium: Rémy Ballet, Tayyar Erzurumlu, Joshua Gauche, Vitalina Tsourkan, Peter Ollevier, Arjan van der Veer

Jeroen van Buren, Delphy

Geoffrey Geluk and Fred van Veldhoven of Benfried. Geoffrey has just started his new job at Benfried.

Ruben Lensing and Michiel Saignette of Sudlac

Paul Schildmeijer of M-Plastics

Dick van Regteren of Genap

Mirjam van Elten, Simon Jones, Anita Roording and Dick van Regteren of Genap

Our very own team was ready for some serious photographing!

Luba Gritsuk, Ralf Schwabe & Bernd Sailer with Krass GlasCon, German specialist of professional glass- and steel constructions

Daniel Da Ros & Fabio Camisa with Da Ros, showing the new & completely electronic sowing line.

Also the newly introduced potting machine (a smaller version of Da Ros' earlier creation) is completely electronic.

According to Fabio, this is the future of potting machines. "There are no pneumatic parts, so it's more secure. Movement is driven by disks, no chains." For safety measures it's completely closed.

Jens Schafer & Gisela Rauen with FVG Professional Gardening, showing various greenhouse foils.

Brian Schmidth showing various solutions to not use plastic pots. This is important for Ellepot, wanting to offer a product to substitute plastic.

Carsten Thrane with Ellepot showing the various Ellepot papers.

Lawrence Baynham of INDO lighting

The Pindstrup team is promoting forest gold wood fibre, that can be mixed to reduce the use of peat and improve the characteristics of the substrate.

Sanujith, Kumar & Dumindr with Hayleys Fibre

Gustavo Alvarez Pérez & Manuel Guerrero from Asthor and Ignacio Rodriguez & Jan-Willem Lut with Sercom

The new BLV products were introduced on the exhibition: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9064881/choose-what-best-fits-your-needs/

Besides various new LED products also a new 1000W HPS was introduced

Plenty of reasons for the BLV team to smile!

Noel O'Leary & Jill Thornton with Hotbox International

Esin Toy & Engin Er with GrowTech Eurasia. The exhibition will take place in November 2019 again.

Monika Reimann with Reimann Textiles was visited by Helmut Grossmann with Demaitre

The Step System always attracts many visitors, since it's an easy solution to get more grip on your greenhouse.

Yasser Dergham & the team with Humintech

The Kleeschulte products were inspected by the visitors

Michael Roll & Bernd Petri with Evonik

Vincenzo Russo & Stefano Liporace with Vifra

Miquel Ribera & Jordi Gusi with Conic System.

Valeria Delfine & Patrizia Giuliana with Arrigoni

Vittorio Genuardi, Massimo & Mattheo Lucchini with Lucchini greenhouse systems

The team with TGU brought various products to the exhibition.

The Tower Roller Plus for example, a drive system for roll-up screens

Igor Malygin & Maria Matveeva with Faros

Steen Tharald Beyer, Soren Kristensen & Erik Jensen with Viemose-Driboga. In the background of course the famous Multi Green Grow, but as shown in forefront they provide other vertical farming solutions as well.

Davide Barotti with Urbinati talking with the Agrinomix team, all the way from the USA. In forefront Elisa Lauris with Urbinati.

Alessandro Mazzacano shows the new fully electronic Urbinati potting machine.

Christian Kuse & Ingo Kreye with Haygrove.

Hayri Murat Turkely with Turkish greenhouse builder Seraci.

The newly introdued Plessey Hyperion Interlight: designed in a way that's slim from above and spreading the light out in a wide angle.

Thomas Abbott & Paige Lee with Plessey

The Fibredust team! Recently the company told us about their novelties in blueberry substrates: https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9059159/developing-new-grow-bags-for-the-ever-increasing-blueberry-market/

Nemanja Rodic, Donato Lucia, Stefanie Linzer, Lars Aikala & Jaakko Nisula with Valoya

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IPM Essen, techniek 2019