" If I were a Dutch agriculturist , I would rather emigrate rather than later , " says Aad van Ruijven of Hortipar . The ground ? “ The price that American raiser receive for their product are much higher than in the Netherlands , which makes it much easier over there to induct in ignition . The payback period ( 3 - 4 years ) is half as long as in the Netherlands . That is also chew over in the market , where one after another large - scale glasshouse horticulture undertaking with lighting is being built , like recentlyAppHarvest . ”
Over the years , the focus of Hortipar , a Dutch ignition installation company , has progressively shifted to afield . The United States is the most important marketplace for the company . Aad can be find there for a week in every month . Recently on behalf of Dutch Growing Solutions , a joint venture with Dutch GST Tuinbouwtechniek . At the beginning of October , Aad ( right ) and Gert - Jan van Geestsymbolically escape from handsand the joint venture became a fact .
Operation autonomous of third partiesAad explains why that joint speculation is necessary . “ We have been providing the complete lighting package for grower for year , from advice on choose the right type of firing and mending , engine room for the complete cabling , prefab installation of the cabling , installing the secureness up to building the panel ourselves , transportation , and , that is quite unequalled , own assembly on American dirt . The latter simply can not be done by a foreign party . The regulation are unlike , stricter and because , as a Dutch soul , you are not give up to shape there , you need an American subcontractor . ”
In recent years , Hortipar has consistently worked with the same subcontractor . " And we supply three executive program to guide the process , give advice and provide the necessary thaumaturgy that go with the installation of complex lighting installations . "
Now that the task in the United States are becoming big , the second arrived that Hortipar could no longer execute the peril of not being completely in control . “ It is no longer possible to depend on a exclusive subcontractor . And just look for another one , that is plainly not done when you as a company have to give a five - year warranty on an installation . That installation has to be undecomposed in any case . "
Own instalment branchStep by footstep they worked towards their own installing branch , called Dutch Growing Solutions where two multitude pop to work out . “ Hortipar advises , Dutch Growing Solutions does the applied science and then Hortipar takes over the process again . As Hortipar , we are no longer dependent on third parties and we can grow together with it . "
Growing with Equilibrium , for example , a large investor who finance several greenhouse gardening project . “ We have lately become a preferred provider . Equilibrium also wants to tie party and does not desire to depend on always switch installers . Many installers are act to the marijuana market , by from the nursery vegetables . We on purpose do not do that , because I think that that specific market may just be finished in a few old age ' time . ”
The latter is not to be carry in the greenhouse veggie market in the United States , quite the reverse . “ The United States is burst with space to build glasshouse and it is increasingly distinguish that greenhouse gardening is a sustainable solution . For example for the water problem , one of the understanding why ‘ country of the fine art Dutch greenhouse ’ are promoted considerably . "
Local - for - local is also a real tendency , Aad observes . " But only according to American standards , so a wheel spoke of 250 kilometers is already ‘ closelipped ’ . For a Dutchman to understand that , it take on adjusting . “For more information : Hortiparwww.hortipar.nl
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