Fruit Logistica 2023

Araymond Agriculture was presented by Edgar Torruella, Jordy Barrio, Erikjan Hoornstra and David Furphy. Their, white, biodegradable clips are upcoming in French

Martijn van der Velden of Share Logistics

Nick Groenewegen and Sander Zuidgeest combined their booth with Reisopack. The newest models of binding machines were showed.

Max van den Hemel, Delphy, explains how QMS (Quality Measurement System) works to Annet Breure, HortiDaily.

Koppert Machines showed their new machine to pack (top seal) snack vegetables.
Patrick ten Have, Paul Koppert and Sebastien Linnenbank

Greefa, Heinz Pircher. He's standing to their new machine. The robot packer is able to pack 320 apples p/min.

"It's all about labour saving and packing solutions'

Tom Crienen, Frank Janssen and Emily Ramakers of Grodan

Lindsey van Doeland and Edwin van Dop of Valto

Joachim Keus, Arjen Janmaat of Ridder and Aad van den Berg of Delphy

Members of the Atrium family: Quirine van Gemert, Havecon, and Lenneke Morit, VB.

Ludvig Svensson and Agculture cooperate to offer complete climate solutions.
Bart Bakker, Mohammad Shayesteh, Ton Habraken, Julie Tixier and Eric Martin

Dennis Janmaat, Sven Spring in 't Veld and Pim van Eijk of DLI

Dalsem: Marc Broeren, Michael Ploeg, Denis Dullemans and Joop van Riessen

Alber Alberczki and Marine Delair of Van Iperen International

Teun Boomaerts and Pieter Steijnen of Syngenta shows two tomatoes: one with TOBRV resistence and one without. Do you see the difference? Do you taste the difference? If you want to try, please contact your accountmanager.

Jeroen Hovens of Koppert

Frank Druyff of Koppert

Ferdy van Elwijk and Arne van Aalst of Koppert

Heleen van Rijn, Rijk Zwaan, shows Tatayoyo. Tatayoyo is their tropical adventure because of its sweetness and flavour. It's nominated for the Fruit Logistica award.

Rijk Zwaan stand

Rianne van der Meer and Aart Jan Bos of Beekenkamp Verpakkingen

Inci Dannenberg, VK Kishore and Nico van Vliet of De Ruiter Seeds.

Komeco

Martin Veenstra, Richard van der Sande, Jeffrey van de Sande and Don Kester of Certhon

Eric Gerritsma (Holland Green Machine) and Carel Doornebal (Empas)

Annelies Justé, Annelies Bayens, Bas Nieuwesteeg, Bart Goudeseune and Evert Verstreken of DCM

Mediane introduces Sealpap banderoles. Paper packaging solution now also available as banderole.
https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9499437/paper-packaging-solution-now-also-available-as-banderole/

Herman Verboon and Stefan van Ruyven (HT Verboom) represent Stolze, Prins and GreenV

Agrolux team: Mario Taal, Eelco Abma, Manuel Oomen, Fred Bosch, Nick Boelen, Jacek Niwinkski and Rosa di Lisa. They launched the Wega Max High Efficiency (HE); 4000µmol/s https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9501016/new-wega-max-he-is-good-for-4000-umol/

Martin Philipsen and olaf Meijer, Van der Knaap Group

Peter Hendriks, Bart 't Hoen, Raisa Weterings and Kevin Spoelder of Hoogendoorn Growth

Kim Helderman, Winny van Heijningen and Martin van Tol, Letsgrow

Normec, Groen Agro Control

Martin van Zeijl, Mike Vermeij, Lodewijk Wardenburg, Ruben Kalkman and Rob de Wit of Bom Group

The last picture of Fruit Logistica s Wednesday was for Nanne Bentvelzen, Lenneke Morit and Edward Verbakel of VB.

Moleaer: René Mondt, Jorge Schwartz, Mario Joseph and Sebastian Sanchez Gerritsen.

Peter van der Putten of Vostermans Ventilation is standing next to their Multifan.

Dry Hydroponics: Maurice van der Knaap and Chris Noordam launched their S27 raft.

Simon Willemen, Hortiplan

Meteor Systems: Julia Komarova, Christa Speek, Arnold Bol, Alex van der Meulen and Ryan Bento (all the way from North America)

This picture is made from above. Thanks to the pipe rail trolley of Bogaerts Greenhouse Logistics.

Mattijs van Loon, Leon Verkoelen and Tim Jacobs

Wijnand Visser of Cyklop: "It's all about automation. The world needs labor saving solutions."

Quirine van Gemert and Pieter Ammerlaan of Havecon

Syngenta stand

Aweta

Tom Zwanenburg, Vd Waay, and William Sonneveld, Havecon

Richard Vialle, Kind Tecnology

Martin Stolze

Flier Systems: Adrie van Diemen, Ard Flier, Henk Meulstee, Ad Kranendonk en Bart Eekhout.

Jan Hanemaaijer and Marijke van Rongen of Blue Radix

Peter Barendsen and Jan Mol of Oreon

John Meijer (Smartkas), Ramon Bol and Jeroen van Gaalen (Alweco)

Peter Rense and Ramon Bruers (Holland Scherming)

TTA: Renko Schuil and Niels den Ouden

Pieter Jan Robbemont, Bob Hunsche and Bas Duijvesteijn of Van der Hoeven

Ranny van Raaij (Trintech) and Joek van der Zeeuw (Van Dijk Heating)

Delphy: new, young and in fact (a part of) the future of Delphy: Anne-Marth Tournet, Wilbert van den Berk, Akshay van Klaveren, Robert Vollebregt, Aad van den Berg and Rens Smith.

Antonia Garcia and Alberto Espinosa with Hydroponic Systems International

Cenk Cinar, Fatma Demir and Feyza from the Turkish company Istanbul Sera Plastik

Grzegorz Sochacki, Arno Feys and Claude van Hoornweder with Vyncke showing their Biomass Boiler

The team of Projar Group

Vincenzo Russo and Stefano Liporace with Vifra

Alkena Qemalaj and Alessandro Mazzacano with Urbinati

Eduardo Pool and Enrique Munoz with Textiles Agricolas with their nets for harvest and greenhouse films

Bram Stroot explaining how Planttape works

Evita Giannakou and George Papagiannis with Thrace group

Franky van Looveren en Koen Van Gorp with Mechatronix

Erik Wikstrum and Joachim Vincent from Wivid

It was busy at the booth of Eifel

Savier Pey, Sara Erlbacher and Borja Devis with Armando Alvarez

Criado & Lopez

Good conversations at the booth of Hortech

Francisco and Henrique with Exporplas

Simon Bresky, Jaroslav Pekan, Jaroslav Krten and Petra Valigurova with Gardenix

The team of Avisomo

The team of Agri Polyane

Gustavo Alvarez Perez with Asthor

Timo Grotschel, Christian Frilling and Alexander Eugen with Lubing, showing their fogging system

Rui Marques and Antonio Martins with Cotesi

The lovely team of Ina Plastics

Ben hoogendoorn, Tom Zwijsen with Horticoop and Paul van Gils and with Lumiforte

Kim Schotborgh, Mariska Dreschler and Job Knook with the GreenTech. GreenTech Americas will take place in some weeks.

Mike, Daan, Harm, Simone en Ab van Gearbox voor hun Gearbox Performer

Many breeders focused on ToBRFV

The new brand of Tomatech, Harmonize your sence with Tali and Maya

Botir Saliev and Robert Keijzer in the Verkade Climate / KUBO booth

Daan Mansveld, Damian Lopz Salazar and Song Gao with Viscon

Lisa de Klerk en Paulien Reus with Iribov

The team of Kubo

The Jiffy team

Sander Selten with ICL with their innovative soltions

Memon was present at the show

Thomas Hoeterinckx and Lucas Coosemans with Octiva

Visitors at Light4Food

Niels Jacobs, Rene van Haeff, Don van Haeff, and Pieter Rooijakkers from Light4Food

Alessandro Montanarella and Claudia van Groesen are jumping to Cultilene s impact.

Solidus

Hans Fakkert, Co Konings, Cor Taks, Femke Mustert and Edwin Sol. The whole group was present: Taks and Berkvens. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9499913/berkvens-greenhouse-mobility-and-buitendijk-slaman-are-joining-forces/

Robert van der Lans of Horti XS (to be pronounced as 'Horti Access')

The booth of Vivent, busy explaining how their systems works

The Vivent system

Anne-Sophie Simon and Paulina Urbanek with Alphatex

Jonathan and Sophhie with Hyperion by Midstream

The team of Plastika Kritis

Dolf van der Hoeven from Metazet

The team of Europrogress

The team with Axia Vegetable Seeds present at the show

Tom Könisser, Ellis Janssen and Jarno Mooren with Signify focusing on vertical farming mainly

Endre Harnes left his waffle iron at home this time and brought some famous Norwegian gebäck instead. Avisomo had a booth at the Innovations Award hall as their modular farming solution was awarded this year.

Matthew Grantham and Rebecca Nordin with Heliospectra showcasing their Far-red light for targeted crop light strategies

Nico van Aanholt, Ella Shien and Eyal Inbar with Hishtil

The Metazet team

The Roam Technology team mentioned that they will be launching a biostimulant on the Canadian market next month as biosecurity is increasing there.

Danko Tolic, John Paul Prior and Dan O'Brien with Farmony representing Sananbio

Roel Janssen with Planet Farms came by for a visit

Endre Harnes (Avisomo) and Jack Farmer (LettUs Grow) made sure to strike a pose together

Growtec showcasing their two-layer strawberry system for greenhouse applications

Jeffrey van der Sande and Fred van Veldhoven with Certhon. Jeffrey explained that they are working on some exciting new greenhouse projects

A sneak peek of Nico van Aanholt, Ella Shien and Eyal Inbar with Hishtil between the numerous plants they brought along

Rebekka Boekhout (VerticalFarmDaily) with Christine Zimmermann-Loesl and Theo Otto with the Association for Vertical Farming

Zoltan Seijpes, Keith Thomas and Anita Zelnik with Food Autonomy. The team gave away that they will be launching a new vertical farming project in the Czech Republic soon!

Mario Gatineau and Careen Bauer with Potager Farms. Their farm is expected to start production in mid-2023.

Mateusz Maryniaczyk and Karol Korzeniewski with Hortitech International will soon launch an automatic logistic line for any crop type

Oumayma Nouib with Graines Voltz and Rebekka Boekhout (VerticalFarmDaily)

Rebekka Boekhout (VerticalFarmDaily), Lisanne Meulendijks (Growy), Oumayma Nouib (Graines Voltz) and Jack Farmer (LettUs Grow)

Simon Madsob Jensen with Ellepot holding the company's newest hydroponic sleeve system

The team of MJTech

The Waybeyond team showcasing their latest Farm Management Platform

James Varghese with Virenxia which is supplying biostimulant fertilizers for open field and greenhouse growers

Rebekka Boekhout with the Urban Crop Solutions research team

Ongoing conversations at the Richel Group booth

Tomato+ showcasing their HortoProfessional, a container farm

Last minute, they decided to go after all: Industrial Product Solutions with Gert-Jan Mulder, Max Robbemont and Melissa de Boer. It was one of the horticultural technology companies in the new Hall 3.1.

In the new technology hall 3.1, we also came across VGE. In the picture with on the left also a UV application to hang in, for example, a water storage tank, we further see Ruud van de Ven and Rob van Esch.

Fred Ruijgt and Teus Jan de Jong on behalf of Priva. Priva enables modulating control of LED lighting with the new software version 914 for the Priva Connext.

Eric Schäfer and Gert-Jan Bol (Alcomij)

Markus Ursch (Premex Trade) and Jan-Willem van Giessen (Trellex-RE) stood together for the first time at Fruit Logistica. Since six months, Trellex has also been active with solar panels that can be placed on fruit canopies.

Oscar Nijman and Twan Leurs traditionally at the Saarlucon and Luiten stand, albeit this year in hall 3.1.

Honest Agtech's robot with autonomy level 5 on the stand at Viscon attracted a lot of attention. Jasper den Besten and Maren Schoormans proudly pointed out all the robot's special gadgets.

John Vermeulen (Cogas Climate Control) with Ronald Thijssen and Rick Keijsers of Ammerlaan Construction. With C-Grow, there was also a focus on indoor farming.

Last year saw a lot of investment in LED lighting. They also know all about it at Hortilux.

Albert Haket of Horconex on the bike that could be won.

At the stand at Horticoop Technical Services, we met Steven van Nieuwenhuijzen, the CEO of investment cooperative Horticoop. Next to him Tom Zwijsen and Ben Hoogendoorn.

Among other things, Twan and Martin Looije and Tom van Zundert of Looije Agro Technics are busy with nitrogen, also a concern in greenhouse horticulture.

The new greenhouse technology hall

Robot bij Honest Agtech in cooperation with CleanLight

Han Smits and Vincent Sanders of Munckhof Fruit Tech Innovators had a stand at Fruit Logistica for the first time. In hall 3.1 there was room for the Pluk-O-Trak that allows fruit growers to measure yields and register working hours, among other things, while using drone images to very precisely control the root knife, among other things. M-Connect provides the connection between the machines.

Hugo Nijgh of Sercom, which recently delivered a new project in Mexico, and Katja van Berkel of Hortilife (which also operates in Mexico, including a biomass project using pecan peels).

Berrybrothers: Stan Linders, Nijs & Jan van Zuilen

Nicola Savio with Terrateck

Diego Vezzani with Europrogress

Piet van den Oord, Henri van Hemert & Ellen Schreur with Opackgroup.

L'équipe d'Agripolyane

Looye, famous for the dutch Honey tomatoes

Marco Galiè, Cora Seeds

Heleen van Rijn with Rijk Zwaan and the award winning Tatayoyo pepper

Jacques Gautier and his daughter Jeanne Gautier

Kees Stijger, grower of colourfull tomatoes, with TNI team Marvin Rapmond, Stefanie Sinack & Martijn van den Berg

The team of Richel

Rosario Privitera and Fabrizio Iurato with TSI Italia

Philipp and Harald Braungardt & Marjan Karlovic (m) with Step Systems GmbH.

Dutch / Belgium team of Syngenta: Hans Duin, Peter Geerts, Emiel van Russel, Pieter Stijnen, Brigitte van der Steen, Lotfi Bani & Kurt Lefebvre

Knecht GMBN

Piet van Vugt and Thomas Bahlman with Van Vugt Kruiden, who expanded their greenhouse acreage with 5 ha last year.

Haygrove, wellknown for their foil greenhouse solutions

Lubing Greentec has developed a cooling process for protected cultivation that increases air humidity, for example in greenhouses and foil houses. The system is used in Mexico, the Middle East and Great Britain, among other places.

Giada Ignaccolo, export manager with Southern Seed

Menno Chemie was happy with the visitor numbers, said Johannes Bellut (l).

Avner Shohet with Tapkit and their Swiss partners

The Cravo team is happy about the interest for their retractable roof products. From left to right: Carlos Ruiz Mápula, Richard Vollebregt, Yosun Cengiz, Ben Martin, and Robert Rouhof.