New climate screen offers more light and lower energy costs
More light
Ridder Climate Screens’ new RES 10+ FR climate screen fabric has been developed in response to the demand for more light in dark, cold growing periods.
Ridder's Mario Scherpenzeel explains: "Obviously, growers use energy-saving screens to minimize heat losses from their greenhouse in the winter. However, they also want to let the maximum possible light into the greenhouse that their crops need to achieve optimum growth and yields. These needs gave us cause to give careful consideration to the available technological options for the optimization of our Ridder Energy Saving (RES) screens. Our efforts have resulted in the development of a new type of screen fabric that offers growers the same energy conservation properties together with an increase in light transmission of no less than 2%."
Extra energy savings
Growers opting for RES 10+ FR screens are able to lengthen daytime screening periods in the darker seasons of the year and benefit from the extra energy savings. Vegetable growers, in particular, can also achieve higher winter yields. Moreover, the additional amount of light ensures that new, young plants become productive earlier in the cultivation period.
Moisture balance
Mario Scherpenzeel adds that the RES 10+ FR screen fabric not only increases light transmission by 2%, but also improves the climate in the greenhouse. "The screen fabric's moisture permeability properties enable growers to retain adequate control of the moisture balance in the greenhouse. This is also beneficial to crop yields."
RES 10+ FR will be available from Ridder Climate Screens, from stock, as from July of this year. Contact your installer or greenhouse builder for more information about the benefits of this new translucent, energy-conserving screen fabric.
For more information:
Ridder Climate Screens
Honderdland 131 – 2676 LT
Maasdijk – The Netherlands
T +31 858 338 333
info.rcs@ridder.com
www.ridderclimatescreens.com