HortiContact 2023, Gorinchem, Netherlands

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HortiContact 2023, Gorinchem, Netherlands

Erik Stappers, Marie-Rose Verkest, Erik Jansen, Rick Oomen and Edith Post of Signify

Cees den Boer, founder of Ludvig Svensson in the Netherlands.

Wilfred Vijverberg, CH2O, had a full booth for 3 days.

Annelies Bayens, Bas Nieuwesteeg, Joris van Tol and Bart Nelen of DCM

Reintjes Systems briefly walked around the exhibition floor

Marloes Westgeest, Hugo Heemskerk, Mike Onrust and Lex Woldringh of Vattenfall

Johan Kodde of Hoogendoorn Growth Management. He is about to retire. Enjoy it, Johan. You've earned it.

Gerard Boomer, Hilko Ton and Hans van Garderen of Condair with their dehumidifiers.

Joris Vermonden, Ton Habraken (Ludvig Svensson) and Mario van Noord (Horti-Consult).

Bas van der Elst and Nicolle Peetom of DL Plastics / Hendic

Teun Boomaerts, Peter Colbers, Pieter Stijnen and Geoffrey Hibbs show their first Tobrfv-resistant tomatoes

Hans Kerklaan and Rich van Buijtene of Kerklaan Greenhouses and Mustang Demolition

Ton and Marcel Frensch of Van Dorssen & Frensch

Remco Meewisse (Metazet Formflex) and roland van Dijk and Harold Maasland of VH Systems

Ryan Rochon of Langendoen and Dennis Philippi, Geert and Kevin Kuivenhoven of A1

Jan Mol, Bill Whittaker, Peter Barentsen and Arnold de Kievit of Oreon

Stephan Kruithof, Quirine van Gemert and Pieter Ammerlaan of Havecon

Jaap Kokshoorn and Marco van Ardenne of TC van den Dool

Peter Custers, Mat Crins, Hugo Bakker, Jari Boerboom, André Schaap, Brenda van Diejen, Aad van Dijk, Eleni Drosou, Svetlana Tokunova and Joanna Faras are almost all from Bayer Vegetable Seeds. Hugo was a visitor and grows cucumbers.

Nick Groenewegen of Steenks brought the new prototype of the Stefix 125 to the fair

Bart and Daan Geers of Gebr. Geers. They are ready for the new season.

Ad van Roon of Boekestijn Elektrotechniek

Willem Vriezen and Jos van Daalen. Willem: "I work in such a great tent. The atmosphere and cohesion is top notch."

Lies van Geest (Tuprotec) and Jan van der Lee (Huisman Scherming).

Henk van Dam (Globe Plant) and Juriaan Weerheim (Kwekerij de Zuidplas)

Peter van Hoek and Ruber Kalter of Pon Power

Jacques v/d Knaap (brokerage) and René Caron (engineering) of AAB.

Arjan Pauw, Wendy van der Laarse and Jan Mulder of DLI. Their one-armed bandit was running at full speed. The main prize of the trolley.

Bayer ... so many tastes, so many characterizations

Tuprotec is bringing something new to the market. Lies van Geest will update you soon via VegetableNews and FlowerPlantsNews

Yes yes, .... they are here again! ... PDI, Kubo and Verkade Climate

Jelle Aalbregt in person with the paper by Dylan van Geest. MeerDeur presents their new logo

Mara Lam and Ralf Steves of Lock. SBE stands for their "Smart Brick Environment.

Willlem-Jan de Kort and Dorien Geentjens of Haifa

Rick van der Meijs and Ed de Gier of Hans van der Meijs

Johan Meersma of Orgapower: "Healthy soil is the basis for healthy growth."

Mienis Water: "Ultrafiltration is a mechanical filtering technique, which allows all different types of water streams to be treated."

Joyce Rasquin, André van Wageningen and Gonneke Gerkema of Grodan. For more information on "Grow more with less," please refer to www.grodan.com/sustainability

Gerben van den Bosch (Royal Brinkman), Wil Bakker (TST) and Tiemo Bodemann (Royal Brinkman).

Peter Ollevier and Vitalina Tsourkan of Phormium

Arwin van der Wees, Daniëlla Hanemaayer and Remco Eikenbroek of Presscon. Their technique emerged as the most promising in controlling gall mites for the flower bulb industry.

And the winner of the HortiContact is ...... BENFRIED! Jelle Koop and Janette van der Werken pictured here at the banner with the submitted innovation

Rob Valke, Frank Vriends and Stefan Oosterveer of Beekenkamp Plants

Albers Alligator has been installing floating solar panels on basins for years

Ruben Bloem, Guido Halbersma, Wessel van Vliet (former colleague), Floor Oomen, Dick Breugem and Jan Eijgenraam of Van Iperen

Neal Ward, Marvin Kooten, Marcel Verbeek and Arno Hellemons of Biobest

Hendrik Mast of Hortimec offers, among other things, water-saving spray booms

Jim de Knegt, Marina Yermalova, Luc Hulst and Carmen Berkhout of Ridder

Jilles Goedknegt and Mirjan den Drijver of GreenV

Tom Tetteroo of Stolze: "This is my last horticultural fair. My retirement is coming up."

Peter Doorn, Ed Langeveld, Arjen van den Berg, Leo van Staalduinen and René van der Meijs of Hortisecur

Conviviality at Holland Gaas and Holland Scherming

Jos Veugen and Ed Gerrits of Frans Veugen Bedrijfshygiëne

Jeremy Aussems of Van Looveren. The dartboard did well.

Jeffrey de Wit and Rick van Roij of Next Handling Systems "go well. "We are happy that our network knows how to find us. We are happy to help them."

Hans Peelen and Jaap vd Sar of Sarco Packaging

Maarten and Lub Kramer of Aquamar. The Provida stood pontifically in the booth. For more information: https://aquamar.nl/

Herman Verboom (HT Verboom) and Pieter van Dijk (Ontario Plants Propagation).

Meindert van der Wielen, Hans van der Pas and Andree van der Kloet of Bioline

Sebastiaan Vroegop (Prins) and Arjan Haasdijk (Schep Heating)

Joost Zwinkels (Courgette Fleur Zwinkels), Tom van Reeven (TK Topboilers) and Gert-Jan van den Brug (Ammerlaan Tuinbouw)

Am I seeing double? Vincent Kuijvenhoven 'squared'. One belongs to Horconex and one to Flynth

Chris Feijen, Marjolein de Vries, Kees Tettero, Jarmila Hartog, Bram Posch and Jasper van Zon of AgroEnergy

Mike Roumen, Roy van Gaalen ('Roy was almost ff away') and Michiel Broch of PB Tec

Van der Ende Group had a lot of focus on Kathari: The Kathari removes pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and fungi, from drain, surface or basin water while retaining the valuable nutrients, through the application of ultrafiltration.Peter Klapwijk (2Harvest), Micha van Nieuwkerk, Tim Kreuger (Van der Ende Group) and Sjoerd Nieboer

Laurens Besemer (Ventiguard) and Marion van Antwerpen (Hortipar).

Agrolux: Peter van der Kaaij and Bram Zwinkels

Redunox: Jurjen Haitsma and Max van der Spank

Bart Schupper (Telermaat), Francis Paon (Fertil) and Mels Verwey (Telermaat)

Laurens Besemer (Ventiguard), Dick Verweij (Van der Knaap) and Ronald Kloppenburg (Huisman Scherming)

Laurent van der Ende of Hoogendoorn Growth Management will succeed Johan Kodde. Johan is about to retire.

Ard van der Hoeven and Bob van Bruggen of Vollebregt Barten

Netafim, the whole 'Gorinchem club' together.

Paul Hofstede, Catec presented a lot of sensors during HortiContact

Jaco Mosterd, Mosterd Naaldwijk. By blowing filtered compressed air over the product, you remove almost all contamination.

Ed Roeleveld (Vitotherm) and Harry van Zuthem (HC Engineering)

Marketing in Picture for narrowcasting. Ilse van der Meer, Dennis van der Kaaij (Marketing in Beeld) and Hans Verbeek (Plantenkwekerij Valstar)

Micha Oosthoek, Ivo van den Baard and Ravi Alta of Perflexxion

Charlotte Grootscholten and Arie Verloop of Koppert

WDP Wireworks: Alexander and Marieke Delisse and Berrie Schuurman

Stefan Bakker, Netafim. Netafim has something to celebrate; the unveiling of SAF-XN. It is the new water filter line equipped with all kinds of latest gadgets. Stefan: "A reliable uniform watering is important to achieve good crop results. Feel free to call me for more clarification: 06 1323 7160."

Verhagen Leiden also had a lot of material on display this year

Chris van Tiggelen and Christoph Roters of 2G

Johan Grootscholten of Globe Plant cultivates with care

JB Group: Alex Lodewijk and Erwin van Maastrigt

Theo Straathof of Micothon. After all these years, this company has built up a lot of in-house knowledge

Peter du Croq of VanDerEng has already had many positive reactions to GreenCore at the IPM.

Alex Hogervorst of RED lighting is new to the LED company and is helping to guide the Dutch projects in terms of cultivation technology

Mateusz Maryniaczyk and Karol Korzeniewski of the Polish company FPHU Maryniaczyk. They lev

Erwin Verbraeken, Marco van Wieringen, Olga Sholomova and Marloes Rosier of Paskal Netherlands.

The LED companies could count on plenty of interest

Michiel van Spronsen of Agfulture AC tells Richard van Katwijk and Frank Reitsema of Certhon about the newly developed Brilliant glass, among other things suitable for the Middle East.

Wouter Voortman of TK-Topboiler gets a visit from Peter Stuyt and Bert Neeft of Total Energy Group.

ROAM Technology's team was on standby at the fair. Huwa-San, their product based on silver-stabilized hydrogen peroxide, now also has applications post-harvest. More on this soon.

Andrzej Kornafel, Cesare Alberti and Chiara Fantonin of the Italian company LUX led lighting present their new EcoBar.

Arjan Pauw of Dutch Lighting Innovations gets a visit from Stefano Hiwat

New at the show: the LED lamps of Current, and the team: Bruno D'Amico, Andrew Prendergast, Petri Haara, Malcolm Yare, Thorbjorn Leu and Nemanja Rodic.

Darts at Priva. Cornald Aldhoff of Aldhoff Engineering throws in the bullseye.

Aad Verduijn and Peter van den Bemd of MJ Tech get a visit from De Heufkens' Erik Bok.

Keith Thomas and Bram Meulblok of Food Autonomy. More than 20 acres of LED fans will be hung at Lans this year.

Roel Akkermans Rijk Zwaan and Roel Vandenbruggen of Proefcentum Hoogstraten with Koen Van Gorp and Franky Van Looveren of Mechatronix. There, of course, it was all about strawberry lighting.

Last year the metal truss bracket CROP CURV was launched, a great success. https://www.groentennieuws.nl/article/9431788/metalen-trosbeugel-brengt-plasticvrij-teeltafval-binnen-handbereik

Ger van der Wal of Easyfairs pictured with Leo Lansbergen and Theo Tekstra of Fluence and Ivo Waardeburg of HT Verboom

Vincenzo Russo of Vifra gets a visit from Mike van Zon Of nursery M&M. The tropical plants like a humid climate.

Joris Janssen of DCL. The company offers catalysts for flue gas cleaning.

The Agrifast and Hortiware teams have been regular faces at the burs for years.

Not a pretty picture but Van Holstein Betonwerken was definitely there!

The cultivation system and the team from Parus with Sandro van Kouteren on the right. Beautiful projects have been realized in recent years, including in the UK.

Michiel van Spronsen, Julie Tixier & Mohammad Shayesteh, AGCulture. Subsidies are now available on their Geysir glass.

Klaas-Jan de Ruiter and Marcel Schulte of Holland Scherming.

Aranet's team shows how sensors can make horticulture smarter

Anyone who says business is no longer done at a trade show is wrong. Dirk-Jan de Haas of Hortiware just sold this greenhouse to Jan Reijm.

Robin Dirks of Growtec shows the company's gutter solutions

Alexander Siemerink and Joachim Bieber of IMC Cross-Border Business. In 1998, they had their first pilot with housing at a grower's facility. In recent years, housing has only become more topical. IMC has also refocused on horticulture over the past four years.

Jeroen van Roy and Carla Siongers of Thomas More.

Ab, Daan, Lisette and Mike from Gearbox.

Joachim Vincent, Erik Wikstrom and Frank Huiskens of Wivid

Torben, me and Alexander in the booth from Lubing

Sander de Vuyst and Olivier Begerem from 2Grow

Alexander, Timo and Torben of the German company Lubing

Bram Tijmons and Ingeborg Gravesteyn of PATS

The men at the Van Tuijl booth are busy talking.

From left to right Wojciech Grabowski, Hendrik Jan van den Ende and Rick van der Tang of OptiSystems and Marcel de Visser of DV Automation. OptiSystems and DV Automation are working together to implement Plant Vision Systems at growers to "accurately sort with the Vision System." OptiSystems were at the fair focusing on the new partnership and the new 80-meter belt.

Rob van Marrewijk of Florensis with additional focus on summer flowers from seed. Florensis supplies among others the Lisianthus, Ranunculus, Campanula, Matricaria, Snapdragons and Brassicas.

Wouter den Hollander, of Kolster Magical Garden Plants, gave extra attention to their products for cold greenhouse cultivation this Horticontact.

Georgo Detiger of Hemelraad & Keijzer Insurance, left, and Jan van Dijk of Holland Heater visited with Richard Scheffers of OptiPlug.

At Chrysal's booth, they were told about their Vident. Vident is an important link for enabling sea freight. But also with the colder crop, this agent is becoming more and more relevant. Pauline Bugter and Wendy Metselaar explained it to everyone who wanted to know more.

Remco Sluijter and Dirkje van Dorst of Collaborationz were at the fair to showcase their filling solutions.

Marcel van Kesting of Nieuwkoop bv was there with his universal ph sensors. Usable for any brand of climate computer.

Evert Jan Luijtjes and Anton Hooijmeijer of Schneider Youngplants busy in conversation with Chris and John of Hill Plant and Tom and Luuc van den Heuvel of Hordijk Jurion.

Corstiaan Stolk of Stolk Orchids came to discuss rock-hard business at De Bruin Potplant.

Jan van Hemert, with the blue jacket, busy talking to a customer. Jacco den Delden, right.

Paul Marcelis of Priva, left, in conversation with Javier Lomas of Sigrow, right.

Jan de Vink and Joey van der Burg of Prins Maasdijk together with Martijn Keijer. "Just catching up and orienting what's for sale."

Ronald Vervloed, Walter Alderen and Wom Vos of Gebr. Eveleens. "Taking the store to the fair".

Chris Thurston, Rom Damen and Aad Borsbeen were at the fair on behalf of the Paardekooper Group. Dillewijn Zwapak and Broekhof packaging now fall under this.

Lucien Knetemann and Jorn Hebels of Import Greenhouses.

Anita Peters and Michel Tax of Veiling Rhein Maas. Both Assortment Managers for cut flowers and plants. "Real relationship fair. We speak to many growers and every now and then even one who doesn't know us yet."

Kim Helderman and Wouter de Kok of Let's Grow. "For all your growing strategies. Embrace nature, florish together."

Maik Mandemaker and Raymond Scheepens of MPS. The gentlemen emphasized this HortiContact on their full lige cicle analysis.

Bart Bovee and Joep Janssen of Limex visited their customers to have a bakkie.

Kristel van Ham - Smits of Hagens Packaging

At the Marketing in Beeld booth were Maarten Hooft, Rob Rietveld and Dennis van der Kooij. Marketing in Beeld helps companies with in-house corporate TV.

Michael Lee of Planti with Hans van der Salm and Quirine van Gemert of Havecon

Matthew Robbins, Rik Egberts and Jeroen van Beek in the booth of Saled Netherlands. Saled shared its booth with Industrial Product Solutions. Gert-Jan Mulder spoke to visitors on behalf of IPS for three days about projects for lettuce cultivation on water. In this, Saled and IPS are working together.

Peter van Zethof, Eric Stolze and Ivo Breugelmans of MeeGaa Substrates currently use, among other things, wood skin from the U.S. in substrate mixes. This product has a lower respiration value than European wood fiber, the men told me.

Cees de Haan of Hortispeed introduced O2Solutions, a brand under the wings of Hortispeed with which the company markets a nanobubble system at a competitive price. Through clever use of the venturi effect, up to 40 cubic meters per hour can be treated.

The solar panel system with click system for on water basins is at Tomeco.

For Greenhouse Services, it was their first HortiContact. Still towards the end of Wednesday evening, an interested grower walked into the booth looking for solar panels for his shed. A note was made and who knows, maybe a nice job will roll out. In the photo Marcel Vurens and Guido Scheen.

Ronald Thijssen photographed colleague Jos Groenewegen of Maurice Kassenbouw and Thijmen Tiersma of GroentenNieuws.

By the end of Wednesday, it was time for a beer at Alweco.

Ultramins is making headway with its ultrasonic technology. A recent article about "an accident" did not go unnoticed: https://www.groentennieuws.nl/article/9500422/de-binnenkant-van-de-pijp-was-zo-schoon-dat-ik-toch-maar-even-een-foto-heb-gestuurd/

There was still plenty of enthusiasm for the fair on Thursday afternoon.

Rinze Noordam and Gerben de Jong of Haket

Marjan van Antwerpen, Nick Kluin and Nico van der Houwen of Hortipar install lighting projects for Signify.

Tried and true recipe at Bèta Industries: filtration systems and syrup waffles. In the photo: Kenneth van Bovenend and Ivar van Straaten.

New product and new faces at CHV International. Jessica Zuidgeest and Regnier ten Haaf promote Croptimum Blue.

Jessica Zuidgeest en Regnier ten Haaf promoten Croptimum Blue.

Reldair and Veha Plastics had a joint booth. Alex Punte explained that Reldair's systems are not only used in horticulture. The wealthy with large luxury yachts can also appreciate the misting systems for a bit of cooling.

Patrick de Craen (Family Fresh Farms), Paul Jochems and Leon Ammerlaan (Brabant Plant)

Raymond Lescrauwaet of Aqua4D knows the concept and drew trade show colleagues Johan Declerq and Yves van Damme of Aguabel along for the photo.

Aguabel brought the Aguapure system to the fair.

The sulfur evaporator hung back at Nivola's booth.

Those at the fair who still secured the booth for the 2024 edition received a bottle of beer from the organization. Was this shopping cart empty by the end of Thursday?

Condair wants to grow in dehumidification in greenhouse farming. They already apply the art of humidification in other industries.

André van der Vlist and Mark van den Heuvel of Voshol

Roeland van Dijk and Peter den Hertog of VH Systems. The company has 250 years of experience in internal transport. https://www.groentennieuws.nl/article/9488413/250-jaar-ervaring-in-intern-transport-gebundeld-in-nieuw-bedrijf/

Wiebe Bergsma and Wilko Jilissen of Farmstore, which drew attention to the Ecofarm brand at the fair. Ecofarm offers water treatment with ozone. It is an Italian technique.

VH Systems is part of horticultural consortium Atrium. Roeland van Dijk, Quirine van Gemert and Peter den Hertog are "family" in that capacity.

Patrick Holster of Burger Logistics Services did a tour of the fair on Thursday.

Saskia Jouwersma sees opportunities for growth of Rainlevelr outside Delfland now that work is being done on (further) automation of the system.

Vinnie Kuizenga and Jardi Roelofsen of MJS brought the Izywasher.

Guus van Heijningen (PEAX Data), Louis Voskamp (Interco) and Dolf van Heijningen (Royal FloraHolland).

Geert van den Eijnde and Johan de Vos (Geling Advies). After first participating last year, Johan noticed that it was busier at the fair this year.

Zantingh Energy Services provides energy systems including special lubricants.

Jeffrey and Marcel van den Bogert of Lightshine Cleaning introduced the Lightshine Cleaning Wipe last year.

For the photo, Ronald Gronsveld of Rofianda was willing to dim the 'sunlight' a bit.

The days of only 'cubicles' as stands at HortiContact have been over for several years now, as seen here at Vos Capelle.

Of the farm machinery Farmstore brought, this one for tillage would also fit in the greenhouse.

Would Chris van Aert of Traycon tell his visitors about strawberry racks here?

Kevin Maes and Steven Van Hoof of Vermako Greenhouses. The second generation has joined the company. https://www.groentennieuws.nl/article/9491679/tweede-generatie-stapt-in-bij-vermako/

Visitors study what Van der Lande brought to the fair.

A grower selling his greenhouse might consider investing his money in real estate. Van Dam, Van Dam & Verkade was at the fair to talk more about this.

Raymond Lescrauwaet of Aqua4D was honored to have his quote featured on the fair's posters last year.

You can produce glass or "refine" it. Schollglas does the latter, including for horticultural applications. Mike Santoe and Oliver Poeschi could tell visitors much more about it.

Jan van Heijningen is going on his first trip for PUM this spring, but did a quick tour of the fair first. Here he is visiting Lennart Schouten at the ISA Nanotech booth.

The Stammtisch at Power Plastics was full for large parts of the entire fair.

René Meulendijks and Victor van Diemen of Fortaplant discussed with Frank van Houdt of BPK Duffel how things are going in nursery country. For this season, the puzzle has been solved. For next season, it would help for the spread if more lighted crops are set up again at greenhouse vegetable growers.

Ralph Ooyevaar, Zoë Molenaar-Wesstein, Sven van der Linden, Jos Leerdam and Thierry Voeten presented Work-IT Online, a new product from Nitea.

Cees de Bakker and Marcel Weering of Jiffy at their alternative to a rockwool block.

Cultivation without rock wool is possible with Jiffy products.

It could be busier, but the men from Spuitbedrijf R. van der Horst are enjoying themselves. Brian Rijgersberg, Kris Kort and Ren van der Horst.

Ivo Barendse and Ewout Valstar (Vyverberg).

The Genap/ZOW Anchor provides even less light for solar panels on water, while also keeping the floating panels well fixed.

Wim Wikkerink and Peter Koevoet of the BoerBurgerBeweging. The political party was campaigning for the upcoming Provincial Council elections. Peter himself used to be a horticulturist.

Willem Verwoerd of Zon op Waterbassin and Chretien Hendriks of Genap at the collaboratively developed system. In the foreground, the talus cloth is attached to the floating solar panels as an anchor.

They are fake pointed peppers, but you can't see that in the photo, Kasper van der Hilst LRE Weegtechniek reveals.

Bram Hanemaaijer has not had enough of horticulture. He still enjoys sharing his knowledge.

Vahid Bagheri Nobakthi of Saint-Gobain Cultilene didn't walk past the GroentenNieuws booth without getting his picture taken.

Kristel van Ham (Hagens packaging) and Michel Klaverdijk (LC Packaging)

Van Amelsvoort Kassenbouw is going to build a greenhouse in Germany for the first time, Sven Fitters and Frank van Amelsvoort told us.

Robert Zuyderwijk of B+H Solutions and Erwin Gräfe and Arie Draaijer of Sendot. Both companies work together, including during Plant Insights. The first edition was held early this year.

At Sendot, there was a Lego orchid to be won. Erwin Gräfe will still announce the winner.

Has Green Academy had to put the students first, of course.

Lennart Simons and Jürgen Brokelman of HortiPro. Lennart is a new face at the company and SemeonPro a new pheromone product.

Ronald de Bruin of De Bruin Cycling climbed back on his scooter. Hufterproof, but the grower still has to provide the horsepower himself.

Visitors to LetsGrow.com could study the new Strategy Manager up close on the screen.

Jordi Mol of Bever Innovations stood alone for a moment because his colleague Stephan (on crutches!) was doing a tour of the fair.

Jos Lemmens of Lankhorst Yarns was promoting horticultural yarn made from PLA. Just like the leaflets he handed out completely biodegradable.

The electric scooter also came in handy for Johan Velting of Workstep himself this fair. He was a bit injured, but could still get coffee.

At Enza Zaden, it was all about resistances. More and more of the company's tomato varieties are HR resistant to ToBRFV.

Sebastiaan Breugem, who recently became owner of family business Breugem Horticulture, with on the left Rob van Dijk of his plant breeder Hollandplant.

Frans van der Linden of Cactus Nursery van der Linden went to see his son Sven, who works at Nitea, but first came to say hello to his old neighbor.

'Piet Perliet' (in the middle) in conversation at Pull Rhenen.

Rick Bakker, Co ten Wolde and Dick Bakker of Greentech Technologies. Since last year the questions came from interested parties. At HortiContact is the perfect opportunity to have them answered.

What about that liquid that the computers are in? At Greentech Technologies, the fair was the perfect opportunity to take a closer look.

Joan Timmermans and Koen van Kempen of NovaCropControl would rather go out for plant sap analysis than have their picture taken, but can laugh about it.

It was dekwasser Tuesday, so of course a photo of Hans Stedehouder and Jorien Plak-Schouten of Besseling Techniek could not be missing. Hans said he had seen some old acquaintances on day one anyway, and it is nice to see fathers and sons, especially if you have been able to supply deck washers to several generations as a company.

Fabian van Velden and Nico Doff had plenty to hand out in the booth at Veldwerk Koerier.

The nominees for the Innovation Award were all given a spot in the Tunnel of the Future, rigged by the fair organization to promote innovations at the back of the fair hall.

Jean-Pierre Godde of Durable M.E. brought a salt battery to the fair.

Ruben Lensing, Paul van Gils and Hidde Huisintveld of Lumiforte naturally took photos with the rich assortment of coatings.

You can mix substrates to grow peat-free, or just use perlite alone. Niels Willems, Kurt Lauwers and Sven Willems of Willems Perlite often had their booth full of growers, including a whole club from West Flanders.

Carlo Bol and Leonard van Vliet of Stabilit brought along polycarbonate sheets in various shapes and sizes. In the picture on the left a three-walled, strong translucent 16mm sheet and on the right a five-walled 16mm sheet.

Bernard van Hest, Nawel Amar and Gary van der Linden of HS Tuinbouw Service, which specializes, among other things, in fixing sagging greenhouses.

Old-timers in the fencing world: Cees van der Kaaij and Ron Groenewald on behalf of Doek en Draad.

Jan Zantingh and Mischa Hermkens of Cogas Climate Control where they also noticed that electric boilers are in high demand.

Factorylab included a sensor to measure biofilm. Pictured: Dennis van Beek.

Gideon Höhle of MFS Construction, which takes a lot of work off the hands of machine builders with welding and powder coating, among other services.

Simon Meijer (CE-Line), Remco Zuijderwijk (Royal Brinkman) and Wilco Dijkstra of (CE-Line). CE-Line recently installed the first measuring system after already having tested it at growers.

Jokingly, the men at Olsthoorn took a photo of 'customer of the year' Ben Vermeer of Kwekerij Bevermeer.

Marco de Zeeuw, Marcel Olsthoorn and Harry van Luijk of Olsthoorn Greenhouse Projects were back at their usual spot at the very beginning of the fair.

At Van der Mark Ketelonderhoud they handed out flamethrowers.

Hey, there's Arthur de Bruin again at SchermNed. The pensionado doesn't know when to stop. Next to him on the left are John van Hasenbroek and Carl Stougie. The latter will soon be featured in an article about mesh at WPK.

Thomas Hoeterickx of Octiva has been joined by Peter Könemann (left). Here the men are pictured with the two-armed Lumion UV-C robot.

Hans Jacobs, Frans Buiks and Harald Teunissen in the booth of ABAB Accountants and Advisors. Under the name Epiic, the new name for what used to be called Subsidiefocus, they provide "more than just subsidy advice.

Growers who want to switch to LED can turn to Hortilux for a new fixture.

In 5 years ProCC has grown from a team of 2 to 14 people, from working in an office of 90 square meters to 700 square meters and from working in the Netherlands to working in 12 countries with more than 100 affiliated growers. Sadik Usluer talked more about that growth process and the company's ambitions. Next to him Daniel Hoszczewski and Jeffrey van Uunen.

Clemens Berendse and Wim Helsloot of Alfa Accountants and Advisors.

A glass vase with urine, which needs some explanation from Urinebank.nl.

Fred Odenkirchen in front of the booth produced and built by Metazet FormFlex itself. The gutter setup in front, actually a water course, also attracted a lot of attention.

The Tunnel of the Future made one curious.

William Simmonds of AgriData Innovations, which now has a system running at Beekenkamp and others.

Olaf Heinrich (Motortech), James Thompson (LouwSon Energy), Roland Louwsma (LouwSon Energy), Lars Siegemund (LS Parts) and Hendrik van Zuiden (Re-Power) together form the Energy+ Alliance (E+A). They offer a new, complete CHP concept.

One of the necessary win events at the fair.

Erwin de Kok and Slaven Slaven Ivanović of BASF Vegetable Seeds visited HortiContact together.

Louis Voskamp of Interco explains how they turn plastic household waste into new pots for ornamental cultivation.

One of the few Westland strawberry growers gets informed about ACN Vending's systems.

A box like that at Bato Plastics must make growers curious.

At the fair, Hortilife focused on the Vortex Nano Bubble.

Nienke Wuring and Thomas Verburg of Cindro

At Ledgnd, the photographer found a namesake with exactly the same spelling.

Wednesday was the busiest day of the fair, they also noticed at PlantoSys.

Dominiek Sergiel and René Polak of Ushio.

Dirk Jan Mulder is happy with his new colleague Timothy van der Toorn at Growficient.

The (soft)drinks were simply brought to the stand holders, like here at the stand of Lek/Habo and VTI Horst.

Martien Melissant of Oro Agri and Ewoud van der Ven of Delphy go back a long way together.

For years the familiar fair faces at Steuler: Erik Mulder and Monique de Jong.

The stand of Quadwereld did well at the fair.

Problems with moss? Innogreen's new fertilizer can help, Ron Ottenhof told us.

Attention to the carbon footprint did not escape the substrate world either. At Lensli this fair, the focus was on lowering that footprint.

We had to look twice, but it really was Marco van 't Hart. Next to him on the left is Leo van der Ven at the Flexibell Systems Group booth.

Thomas Douma of Houweling Group with a piece of chemistry: Deruned's new product Root Energize cleans up root residues. In the flask on the left, the decomposition process has been going on for a while. Only powder remains of the roots.

MWM in familiar white and blue at the fair.

The photographer was just too late, but Joek van der Zeeuw of Van Dijk heating and Tom van Zundert of Looije Agro Technics are eager for a short piece of theater. Once again, that "explanation" of technology.

Peat works well, but is increasingly being replaced. At MeeGaa Substrates, they have new substrate mixes with peat alternatives.

In between taking photos, there was always someone ready for a chat at the GroentenNieuws booth as well.

This Kroes face has not appeared before in the Horti-Contact reports.

Technokas does many projects with air treatment and Next Generation Growing.

Danny Arisse and Paul Blom also had a fair on tulips in Zwaagdijk during the fair week. In that market they offer special planting robots:

Growers were able to catch up on Ocap's CO2 plans.

This panel generates hot water using the sun. Daan Boks and Steven Triep from HR Solar Projects brought the panel.

Now that existing basins and silos can also be connected to Rainlevelr, the momentum is well underway. In the photo: Esmee Overtoom and Hugo Vreugdenhil, colleagues from the Delfland Water Board.

Richard Frenken of FB Engineering had brought the Tube Lift again.

A similar system from FB Engineering is on the way for strawberry cultivation, following the example of the Tube Lift.

With a bubble bath and a refreshing breeze, they kept cool at Horticoop Technical Servies. Harry Meijndert and Claudia van Staalduinen took photos.