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Horti Vienna 2013, Austria.

The organization of the 2nd Horti Vienna : H & K Messe. From l-r: Marie Theres Kolsch, Claus Hahnel, Monika Komiago and Nadine Kohlhof.

Blümel is the Austrian distributer - installer for R.A.M, Lock, DH Licht, Reimann Emsdetten, Schell and Revaho.

Wolfgang Blümel from Blümel Gartenbauautomation and Steuerungstechnik

Wolfgang Blümel demonstrating R.A.M and DH Licht's VisuSpectrum software. Learn more at http://www.hortidaily.com/article/825/Germany-RAMs- VisuSpectrum-allows-researchers-to-visualize-adjusted- light-spectra

Frantisek Ondrusek (managing director from Schetelich) together with Nicolas Bernhard an Yves Desjardins from Richel Greenhouses

Ulrich Neubrand, Frank Lock and Arco van der Mout from Lock Drives

Alessandro Mazzacano from Urbinati. Urbinati has made a new drum seeder line (not on the photo). More on this can be found on HortiDaily.com soon.

Youngplants from Grootscholten propagation (Globe Plant) at the booth of AgroTech.

Dunston Joseph from Sivanthi Joe Substrates together with substrate specialist Rainer Lindner.

Sivanthi Joe has developed a 100% coir propagation plug. The coir is made binding with a glue based on a coco substance.

Jelle Hoogland from Grodan.

Eliezer Adania and Ron Polak from the Paskal Group. They did not only showed their trellising supplies but also the Growth Analysis system that they introduced last year. Learn more at: http://www.hortidaily.com/article/1056/This-could-bring- in-a-new-era-of-plant-growth-optimization,-like-the- climate-computer-did-back-in-the-days

Mr and Ms Steger for Bayer Cropscience retail and professional crop and plant protection.

Hendrik Klar from FVG Folien

Florist Evelyn Gerull making arrangements at the Oasis booth

Rudie Reedijk from Arend Sosef at the booth of reseller GBC.

Arco van der Mout from Lock Drives

Brabant Plant

Reiner Weber from Haifa fertilizers

The Netafim team

Markus Balan and Laurens Besemer from Svensson screening and shading textiles.

Rauch fogging and cooling technique

When you say horticulture, you say The Netherlands; Representatives Jochem Wolthuis from Frugi Venta/ Topsector Horticulture & Starting Materials and agricultural counselor Martijn Homan from the Dutch embassy in Budapest where present to promote the large submission of Dutch greenhouse suppliers at the Horti Vienna.

Andreas Rene Rauch

Next to a big selection of technical greenhouse suppliers there where also 10-15 nurseries, breeders and young plant suppliers present at the show: Schmeuber gartenbau

Aron Macsik and Jan Jansen from Looije Agrotechnics

The Fitomon system from Gremon is a plant growth analysis system that gives a real time overview and generates growth statistics with the help of a special sensor that is monitoring plant growth.

This sensor (from fitomon) can move in 2 dimensions alongside the crop

Atilla Bilicki from AENsys / Gremon (fitomon system)

Gremon is a very innovative greenhouse workflow monitoring system. Instead of a tag or code like other systems, greenhouse workers register their tasks with a special card that they can swipe at this touch screen module.

Markus Kopf, Markus Dombrowsky and Armin Wehrstein from Plonka.

Stein Schouten from Florist was one of the few breeders at Horti Vienna

Vincenzo Russo and Elvys Amico from Vifra fogging cooling and greenhouse equipment.

Katarina Dubekova from Baumschule H. Brillinger.

Martina Funk and Christoph Killgus; editors for Dega Production and Handel/ Grune Markt

Ferdinand Eberl from Mesto

Pascal Subiot from FiberWeb fleece and mulch

Roger de Jagher from Mardenkro

Team Doll.

Timo Grust is a technical greenhouse consultant that advises cultivation strategy and energy management.

Rainer Stratmann from Stratmann Industietechnik offers self developed climate computers. www.klimaregelung.de

Bob Hunsche from Van der Hoeven Horticultural Projects

Jaap van der Ende and Arjen van der Meer from Zwirs Worldwide

Harald Leidolt is the german reseller for Da Ros

Henri van Hemert from Oerlemans Plastics at the booth of Austrian reseller AgroTech

Polish greenhouse builders from KrosAgro

Harald van Deest and Jon Hesen from Ammerlaan Greenhouses

Maaike Hamer from Stelzner was enjoying a glass of wine and the good Italian company from Claudio Grigio and Michele Pavano from P-TRE.

Ernst Jan Monden from Taks Greenhouse Handling Solutions

Gunther Purkhauser from Parga irrigation.

Peter Zethof from Mega Substrates / Shakti Cocos

Steven Deforche. Deforche is a specialist in special, difficult greenhouse designs and constructions.

Ebinger

Marco Slinger from Everris

Jan de Vries and Tim ter Bogt from Smurfit Kappa

Petra Liepold-Klein and Eleonore Fischer from Smither- Oasis with the newly introduced GrowCubes. Also in Europe more and more growers show interest in the foam propagation plugs.

Giora Ben Jaakow from BJ Irrigation Technique

Michael Luser and Fran Kletzl from Kwizda Agro

Andreas Kientzler from Kientzler young plants.

Robert E. Kudrna from KAT showing the Hortimax FertiMix Go!: an automated fertigation system that is both affordable and easy to use

Uwe Bohm from Amagro

Hartmann is also a reseller of Novavert Screening

Agrotech booth;Agrotech is reseller from Bato, Berg Hortimotive, Steenks Service, Biobest,Fortaplant, Oerlemans Plastics and many more.

Dirk Aerts from BioBest together with Katharina Scheuker, Daniela Harb and Andrea Ambichl from Agrotech.

Fortaplant propagation block on Dutch Plantin cocoslab

Csaba Tegla and Gergely Boroczki from ProHorto together with Wim Roosen from Dutch Plantin. Pro Horto started in 2004 as a distributor for Dutch Plantin in Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia and Slovakia. Nowadays they also resell the WET sensor by Delta T and they advise growers on substrate strategy. There customer base is over 100 ha.

Pro Horto emphasizes the double layer bag for better rooting and drainage.

Aniket Nagri from Shri Ambica polymer

Harald Braungardt from Indega and Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Tantau from the ZINEG projekt show the results to a Russian Delegation from the Russian Greenhouse Delegation led by mr Arkadiy Muravyev

Christian Sommerbauer from StyraPlant

Albert Haket from Horconex

Hortimax' CX500 at KAT booth

GBC

Erik Bubner in the booth of Krassax

Raymond van Mierlo from Bato

Bato introduces a new flexible clip. The patent on this system by Deleco ended recently.

Roman Kolbl, the big boss and chief of strange humor at AgroTech

Sander Zuidgeest from Steenks Service at the AgroTech booth.

The automatic string machine of Steenks Service is fast. You can easily cut 1,500 strings per hour because of the fast motor and the easy cutting of the string.It can be used on every type of pipe rail trolley.

Volmary presented some new varieties for amateur and pro growers.

Andreas Glathe and Irena Vizjak from Volmary

tasty 'seedless' snack pepper from Volmary.

Robert M. Kudrna, CEO of KAT together with Arjen Janmaat from HortiMax.

Igeba fogging machines.

Roman Kolbl does not only know a lot about horticulture, but also about gastronomy.

At Tuesday, the Dutch exhibitors were welcomed at a networking party organized by the reps of the Dutch topsector Horticulture and Starting Materials and the agricultural counselor of Hungary.

Also exhibitors from Middle and Eastern Europe joined the party.

A toast by Roelof Buffinga, the Deputy Ambassador of the Dutch Embassy in Austria

Baumschule Steiner

Sabina Herndlhofer-Tuma from the Astrian Hail-Insurance (HV)

Wolfgang Block from WBLOCK

Thorsten Pfaff from Folitec

Birchmeier spraying tools

Leingheim & Dank

Heinrich Wiegand from Guse Plant Marketing

Thomas Pfalz from Pfalztechnik is the manufacturer of the disinfection mist and spraying installations that are used by many disinfection companies to clean empty greenhouses at the start of a new season.

Smaller manual unit for small scale horticulture.

Maaike Hamer from Stelzner dressed for the special occasion.

Bernhard Aichele from Herkuplast with their new cultivation tray for hydroponic lettuce cultivation for eb and flow systems

The trays are available in all kind of configurations

Thanks to the 'gutter' design, any water will directly flow away from the upper side, to avoid botrytis and mildew on the crop. See also the special design that makes the trays ready for automation.

The second day saw more visitors. On the right you see Javo's booth

Michaela Ravingerova and Piet Scheele from Energy plant are developping a large horticultural area near a fertilizer plant in Slovakia. More info can be found on www.energyplant.eu or at http://www.hortidaily.com/news_detail.asp?id=3800

Filip Meeuws from Demtec.

Soren Schumann from Schumann Screening in his booth in conversation with customers.

Arco van der Mout in conversation with trade show visitor Elmer Vlielander from Benfried International.

KAT had one of the most impressive booths at HortiVienna.

Sukamar Coir from India is trying to set up business in Austria.

Frank Reiser from SABTec

Da Ros machines at the Leidolt booth.

If there is one thing that veg growers can learn from ornamental growers, then it must be marketing. Ever thought about marketing living herbs as Mojito's?

Cord Wahlers from Schutz Fahrzeugbau

After two days of trade show, it was good to see some fresh vegetables.

Lodewijk Wardenburg from the Bom Group.

Philipp Morandell from TopControl.

Haygrove Tunnels from the UK.

Empass sprayers at the booth of GBC

Despite the low numbers, Bert van het Hof from Meteor Systems was positive about the quality of the visitors.

Seen in the Cultilene booth; A brochure from polish grower Mularski. Mularski is one of the most modern greenhouse growers in Poland. Next to this they are the largest vegetable young plants producer for the Polish greenhouse industry.

Ivan Casteels from Cultilene.

Iris Williams from Brenntag in conversation with a distributor.

Javo.

The booth of the Dutch horticultural trade promotion

The growers from Lust at the booth of NL Gartenbaubranche. Lust is the most modern tomato grower in Slovenia and marketing it's produce with impressive marketing skills. A complete interview with the growers from Lust can be found on hortidaily.com next week. They are currently expanding their 4 hectare greenhouse with another 2, build by Looije Agro Techniqs.

MSD booth.

Juta

Klaus Poppen from Poppen tunnel structures.

Holger Dinter from P.L./ DH Licht at the Blumel booth.

Fackler gewachshaustechnik

"Spotted at the trade show floor: Peter Rense. He just started as sales manager at Holland Scherming. Holland Scherming specializes in innovative screen installations for greenhouses. Peter Rense has over 13 years’ experience in the international sales of garden centers and commercial greenhouses. "We have some great innovations lined up that will definitely provide an acceleration in achieving our goals," he says."

Next to the trade show, an informative seminar program was organize, attended by many students.

Stein Schouten from Florist Holland gave a presentation on the power of the Gerbera.

Dennis van Leijde from Revaho at the Blumel stand.

Christian Bosse is the official reseller of Dramm in Germany.

Martin Sattler from TWK and Bart 't Hoen from Van der Knaap / Forteco. TWK is the fresh new distributor for Forteco in Austria.

"If there is one trend that I spot at many trade shows over the last years, then it is the coir propagation block. Because many growers in Austria/Eastern Europe are growing on coir, there i"s a big demand for it noted Bart 't Hoen from Forteco. Forteco has made 1 million propagation blocks in the past year. "We could not supply the large demand for it!"

Smiling as usual; Richard Weber.

Arjen van Dijk from NPI paid a quick visit to the trade show with his partner Karin. NPI did some nice projects in Asia over the last year. Learn more at : http://www.hortidaily.com/news_detail.asp?id=2794

Jochem Wolthuis, Peter Oei and Martijn Homan.

Knecht and Krotz.

Gernert booth.

It was a bit silent at the booth of Bogaerts Greenhouse Logistics. They must have been very busy with projects.

Pottman laboratory

BioHelp

Biohelp

GBC is also supplier of Coir Project substrates

Gerhard Kempe from Coir Project

Also Coir Project has developed a coir propagation block.