The Fruit Farm Group (TFFG) is still interested in the purchase of land from the Waddenglas project in Northwest Friesland, according to a letter from the Province of Friesland. TFFG is working on procuring additional bank financing and external capital injections to enable the purchase of land. According to provincial executive Sander de Rouwe, the company wants to make an investment of tens of millions for the cultivation of organic products in greenhouses. In the course of 2018 TFFG hopes to have raised the money to start the expansion.
In June 2017, TFFG took over the greenhouse horticulture company A.C. Hartman in Sexbierum, after which the company expressed the wish to expand to 110 hectares. Before that, the company showed interest in land parcels within the development project Waddenglas. In that project, the province, the municipality of Waadhoeke and the national government are collaborating on the development of greenhouse horticulture near Sexbierum.
Due to the ongoing financial crisis in the glasshouse horticulture industry and the lack of land allocation, the duration time of the project was extended until the end of 2019. Because A.C. Hartman had a turbulent time after the takeover, the first priority of TFFG was to stabilize the situation. Now TFFG hopes, while awaiting financing, to be able to expand after all.