HortiContact, Netherlands, 2022

For the first time, the Sudlac and Mardenkro teams, under their new name Lumiforte, are exhibiting together at the fair.

Guess who's back from the USA? It is Gert van Straalen. After a 5-year adventure at Mastronardi, he is now back in British horticulture.

The farewell tour of Christian Schröder. Later this year he will leave Knauf for a new challenge. Current colleague Dirk Mühlenweg will introduce his successor later this year.

Team Ridder is at the HortiContact and is already revealing big plans for GreenTech.

Pirita Luolamaa-Vollebregt and Tuulia Valkama of Novarbo have been working with Mosswool substrate for some time. What is new is that it is now completely peat free, mixed with wood fibres. Later this year, a factory will be opened for this purpose and large-scale production can start.

Hortipar team: Jeffrey Spies, Marjan van Antwerpen and Nico van der Houwen

Aad Verduijn of MJTech is visited by John Rodenburg of Stolze

Leon Verkoelen with Royal Brinkman

The team with Agculture by AGC presented the new horticultural glass Geysir: https://www.groentennieuws.nl/article/9425871/agculture-presenteert-nieuw-energiebesparend-geysir-glas/ On the photo Michiel van Spronsen, Mohammad Shayesteh and Julie Tixier.

Jeremy Aussems and Phillipe Gers of van Looveren.

Jos, Emile and Maryna with Ridder.

Olivier Begerem and Laura Frijters of 2Grow.

Cornall van Leeuwen and Joey van der Burg from Prins Maasdijk.

Martijn Stappers and Robert Schipper of Remon Waterbehandeling

The new Sigrow innovation.

Jeroen van Katwijk and Nicole Sonneveld of Seahorse Diving

Ingeborg, Joelle and Bram of PATS Indoor Drone Solutions.

Vincent van den Dool of Van den Dool International.

That's what we like to see!

Andre Schaap, Svetlana Tokunova, Steven Adriaense, Jonas de Win, Jari Boerboom, Brenda van Diejen, Peter Custers and Joanna Salwoska from de Ruiter.

Rob Gevers, Pieter Stijnen, Teun Boomaerts and Geoffrey Hibbs of Syngenta.

Raymond and Djefano from Lescrauwaet BV with their new technology Ultra Oxygen Bubbles.

Elise Bas and Betty van Nieuwenhuijzen of Aweta.

Niels, Jens and Josephine from Anorel with their new technology Tombustion.

Gerben Wesselink and Marjolein Kruidhof of Wageningen University & Research together with Simon Foster and Paco Lozano of Biobest Group.

Jarl Blok and Marc Rooijakkers of Pylot.

Sven Schuur of Eiko.

Thomas Hoeterickx of Priva Kompano and Octinion.

Michel Betzold and Joost Edens of VDH Watertechnologie.

Thiark and Vahid of Saint-Gobain Cultilene.

The Svensson team at the ClimaFlow fan.

The team of AgroEnergy

Arjan Haasdijk of Schep Heating.

BFFs!

Amy, Hovik, Arjen and Paul of Centrica and Alex and Juan of Rolls Royce Solutions Benelux.

Erick Wikstrom and Joakim Vincent of Wivid.

Martine vanden Bussche of Armetal.

Jochum and Finch of Mienis Water.

Lars Hillbrans of Boix

Small innovations can be very big. A metal tomato clip makes it possible to produce plastic-free cultivation waste, which can be composted.

Robbie Maat and Mark Hoogendoorn of Kubo flanked Michel Kauderer of Verkade Klimaat on the shared stand that was unmissable at the entrance to the fair.

Koos Maat Lock drives in conversation with Robert Couperus of Huesker Synthetic bv.

Stephan Kruithof of Havecon, Peter Barentsen, Wouter Staats and Pien Stams of Oreon.

André Overkleeft of Reytec.

Father and son Ton and Marcel Frensch, van Dorssen-Frensch.

Sigrow..... Sense . Discover . Improve

Nice and busy at Presscon.

The team of Van Iperen.

Kateryna Volianska from the Ukraine, also present at the fair for Bucon.

Wim van Wingerden visiting Paul van Gils of Lumiforte.

Willem van Geest of Holland Gaas, Huub Zuidgeest Kwekerij Powergrow, Wilco van den Bos and Peet Janssen of Steetec. Jim and Ronald Ton of Sweetpoint and finally Thimo van Marrewijk of Het Westland Nursery.

Loud and clear!

Martin van Ginkel of Dutch Lighting Innovations.

RED Horticulture is photobio-logical. Louis Goliez, Jose Carretero, Yassine Elqamri, Peet van Os, Houcum Khuchuna.

Michiel Groeneveld of Grovo André Stougje of SVR Greenhouse Tanks and Wouter Voortman of BKC construction.

Catec was also present, with Paul Hofstede at the stand.

Charlotte Grootscholten, Arthur Kalkman, Arno van der Zwam and Arie Verloop, Koppert.

Rutger Vreezen, Javier Lomans and Thijmen Calis of Sigrow.

Mariellle Klijn and Thom van Wesel of Cultilene also visited the fair, of course.

Jaco Mosterd of Mosterd, technical supplier for horticulture.

Alex Lodewijk (right) of JB Groep explains to Jaco Wesseling of Flexible Partitions.

Daniel Hoszczewski and Jeffrey van Uunen of ProCC.

The well-dressed men from Peter Dekker Installations.

Aad de Koning from LEK/HABO.

Kristel Roben and Leon Tachen of Hotraco Horti.

Harold Stolk and Micheal Zomerdijk of Mprise

Alberto Lizarraga and Dirk-Jan Haas show the Tom System, with which you tie up your plants with a kind of staple. With an extra novelty, a metal truss bracket, and biodegradable rope, they can grow completely plastic-free. "That completes the story. More soon!

Marco de Zeeuw and Marcel Oudshoorn of Olsthoorn Greenhouse Projects at the fair at their regular spot at the beginning of the first aisle.

On the left, Toon Hopmans visiting IntraHorti. Rene de Koning and Claudia Weick of IntraHorti. On the right Ronald de Vreede Bussines development manager horti.

Ronald de Meester, Izabelle Miseroy - Gerencser and Orhan Tuyen of OCT Personeelsdiensten.

Jürgen Brokelman and Rick Zuijderwijk of HortiPro with the DeltaTrap.

Ed Roeleveld and Vincent Stringa of Vitotherm, Passion for Burners.

Javey Verhegd and Remco Sluijter of Collaborationz were at the trade fair for their filling and packaging services.

Arno Eussen of Profitable Services visiting the stand of Van Dijk Heating with Mark Hellevoort, Joek van der Zeeuw and Freek van Rijn.

Arjan van der Veer, Peter Ollivier, Vitalina Tsourkan and Marta Gentile of Phormium.

Veiling Rhein Maas was of course also present at the fair and represented by Nico Pubben (assortment manager cut flowers), Andre van den Bosch (assortment manager pot plants) and Anita Peters (assortment manager cut flowers).

Sabine Robben and Tim Weijs of NovaCropControl did the honours at the stand on Wednesday afternoon.

Richard Vermeer and Bert Strikkers of Alumat Zeeman.

Pon Power represented by Marcel Ameling, Ruben Kalter, Peter van Hoek and Dennis Bonneveld of Carry's Coffee. Dennis provided everyone with a delicious cup of coffee.

Gert-Jan Spierings of Bato Plastics in the stand where the high-wire hooks of tomato hook wrapping company van den Wijngaart were given a prominent place.

Lex Woldringh, Hugo Heemskerk and Mike Onrust of Vattenfall.

Wendy Metselaar and Jelle van der Kraft of Chrysal were happy to be at the fair again.

Alef van der Velde of Flexxolutions and Dirk Timmers of Royal Brinkman on the new Flexxomat disinfection mat. The men indicated that it is extra durable for disinfection during intensive internal transport.

Dirk Blom from Dry Hydroponics gives an explanation.

Jelle Aalbregt and Mitchell van der Meer represented Meer Deur.

The Reldair misting system is equipped with an interface that, if necessary, can quickly find a malfunction and therefore quickly repair it. The system is also freely adjustable from the interface.

Tom Zwanenburg and Joost van der Waay at the Glass Repair Cart from Van der Waay.

Pero Zwinkels and Theo de Wit from Regbat were at the fair with their technology for regenerating all kinds of batteries. A patented technique which gives your battery a second life.

Yvo Kouwenhoven and Willem Piet of Pireco, which offers biostimulants.

GS-NL is of course also present. Marco Brok and Peter van der Kaay.

In the stand of Bernard Sanders Aandrijftechniek they were busy waving.

Also in May, vegetable plants are still being grown at Hollandplant. For some growers, a new round of cucumbers is on the way.

Jorien Schouten, having a good laugh, among her colleagues, at the Roofmaster deck washer of Besseling.

Louis Voskam of Interco holding in his left hand a pot of 100% recycled plastic from PWC. The difference is clearly visible with the jar (right hand) made of virgin material

Niek van der Giessen of Giessen Holding in conversation with Cor van Ruijven of CVR Visie.

Sam Mastop, Nick Weterings, Willem Kuijvenhoven and Rob van den Berg of Weterings Machinery.

Ronald Vreugdenhil and Pieter van Staalduinen of Tekü Pöppelmann were of course at the fair again with their solutions for making plastic from PCW.

Henk Burghoorn and Enrico Bravenboer of Emission Blue brought an oxidation catalyst with a metal grid. Traditionally, this type of catalyst is equipped with a ceramic grid. Metal has advantages.

Very busy at PBtec. Roy van Gaalen Michel Broch and Mike Roumen.

Haifa's stand was occupied by Nevo Neeman from the head office in Israel, together with Marco Molenaar and Willem Jan de Kort from the Mechelen office for the activities in North/Western Europe. Haifa was mainly at the show to promote their new concept. My Haifa Micro Mix. With this concept, they supply a customer-specific and low-sodium trace element mix to growers.

On behalf of Alfen, Marko Dalmijer and Fabian Hellweg were allowed to be in the photos.

Herman Batist and John Bergman of Batist Aluminium.

Joan van Burg together with Jesse Burg of Burg Machine Fabriek from Kruiningen in Zeeland. Burg Machine Fabriek designs and produces machines for sorting and packing companies, among others. Burg Machine Fabriek designs and manufactures machines for, among others, sorting and packaging companies.

Martien Melissant of Oro Agri had some colleagues visiting. From left to right: Martien, Barbara Jooste, Loes van der Veer and Ronald Hiemstra.

Nanne Bentvelzen and Edward Verbakel of VB.

The TST Horti Solar stand (part of TST) was manned by, among others, Thom Bakker. Thom is account manager for TST and gave this fair extra attention to their solar panels that are specially designed for a greenhouse roof. Because of the shape you can put them in the normal frame where the windows are in and you don't need a whole construction to lay your panels.

Koen van Wijk of Onder Glas in the picture with the team of Oro Agri.

Dirk-Jan Haas of Viridi Circular.

Gavita/ Agrolux = The Wega Family. Eelco Abma, Sunny Smit, Fred Bosch, Mario Taal, Bram Zwinkels, Rosa di Lisa, Nick Boelen, Naomi van der Linden and Dennis Broem.

Jurrian van den Hoogenbrand and Milou van Vliet were at the fair with their showpiece; the BYD forklift. This is a forklift truck with a Li-Iron battery. This means that it is maintenance free and above all recyclable. This is due to the raw material used for these batteries. Van Vliet Heftruck also gives an 8-year warranty on the battery.

Alwin van der Wees and Peter Roessink of SPX Flow with a Johnson pump in the middle.

Jan Jacob Mekes and Tiret Dewnarain of HP Now were at the fair to promote their installations. With this clever piece of technology, you have your own H2 O2 installation in the greenhouse, which not only benefits your plants but also keeps your entire pipeline system clean.

Jan Zantingh and Mischa Hermkens of Cogas Climate Control are active in climate technology. An extra hot topic these days.

Jan Jacob Mekes, of Bumbleberry Marketing.

In the stand of Verhagen Leiden Oscar Peters and Patrick le Maitre gave extra attention to their new machines which are equipped with lithium batteries.

David de Wit, Christian van Beelen, Rosa van der Slot, Niels van Rooyen and Maurice di Stefano of Power Plastics

A nice potato on a stick, at Goodmorning.

Sjoerd Ypma represented Quick Plug. Quick Plug is known for their plugs for orchids, but they are also developing plugs for strawberries.

Marcel van Hoegee and Sanne van Tuijl of Transtecno indicated that there is still a lot of profit to be made in energy efficient driving.

Very busy at Netafim Netherlands.

Wouter Botermans of Scorpions Emi, which is committed to gas-free geothermal heat sources, visited Robert van der Lans, Cas van der Lans and Bas Hijstek (the men from HortiXS).

Claudia van Staalduinen of Horticoop Technical Services on the right at the Horticoop stand where a rotary filtration unit caught the eye. It is a rotary filter. The filter can serve as an alternative to a fabric filter.

The men from Stolze.

At the stand of A1 Tuinbouw Techniek, a global player in the field of screen installations and water technology, Kevin Kuivenhoven and Dennis Philipp spoke to everyone.

Vincent van Gorsel, Sorma.

Ad Vermolen and Demi Voois of Greenwear promoted their sustainable clothing that not only lasts longer but is also produced using considerably less water.

Lennart Schouten Isa Nanotech was at the fair to promote Siltac SF.

Eric Forschelen and Mark Bol of Bol.

At the Florensis stand, Edwin Kroon of Lion Lasers and Estuardo J. Hernandez of Wageningen University were visiting Jeroen Demmers and Anne Vromans of Florensis.

A jar of mustard from Jaco Mosterd for Cor Pellikaan of Pellikaan Crop Clamping Systems.

Leon Bekenes, Marcel Schulte, Robert Jan de Goeij, Klaas Jan de Ruiter, Peter Rense Michel de Zeeuw, Ramon Bruers and the only lady, Sonja Muijrs. Hollan Gaas and Holland Scherming.

Paul Leenders and Mark van Boxtel of VitalFluid take a tour of the fair.

Marcel Schulte and Gaas Jan De Ruiter, Holland Gaas.

Geert Maris of TTA (left) visits the Green Products stand for a good talk with Jan Dons, Matthijs van den Berg and a good customer.

As always, Axia had travelled to the trade fair with a large team. That deserves a group photo.

Karel Welten and Robbert Biemans of Hazera Seeds.

Ard van der Hoeven and Bob Bruggen were there on behalf of Vollebregt Barten. 'The greenhouse horticulture broker of the Netherlands'.

Greta Guiliani and Nadir Laguili of Agrona

Sadik Usluer of ProCC talking to Jeroen Keijzer and Robert Solleveld GTNL.

At the Optiplug stand, Mark Bol (left) came to catch up with Rico and Richard Scheffers.

Rick Keijsers and Esther van Rooijen of Fortaplant follow the current shifts in the market closely.

Weterings Machinery had several stands where they showed their products.

Jasper van Diemen was at the fair on behalf of MPS. MPS now also promoted their ability to calculate a CO2 footprint with their Hortifootprint calculator.

Richard Frenken is going to market the tube lift invented by Wiel Nies.

Eekhout bouw is represented by Edwin Ammerlaan.

The Agrolux and Gavita stands included Bram Zwinkels, Naomi van der Linden, Mario Taal and Sunny Smit.

Niels van Rooyen of Power Plastics who supplied a Power Pulse Venturi for the System Blue unit of Jan Wijgerse of GHBD Holland.

Cosy at Monsanto; Bayer, de Ruiter.

To find out more about hands for horticulture, and for a tasty syrup waffle, Perflexxion's stand was the place to be. Bart Berkhout (left) of Stroopwafelbakken.nl provided everyone with a warm stroopwafel. Orrin Kors, Bernhard Tigelaar and Robin Vendeloo were there to talk to everyone.

Jord Aanhane, Jan Hardeman and Frank Hoeberichts of Eurofins Horti

Kurt Lauwers, Willems Perlite.

Bert van Tol and Ines van Marrewijk, both of Groen Agro Control, busy talking at the stand.

Pieter Ammerlaan with his new colleague Stephan Kruithof of Havecon Horticultural Projects

Arjan Verwer present for Bactiva.

Former pepper grower Ewout Valstar from Vijverberg spoke to everyone about their advice and guidance for new and rebuilt projects.

Almost really, the Viscon team in the packaging hall.

30Mhz, Hans Belt.

At the ABZ Seeds stand, everyone was updated on the latest strawberry news. Plenty of attention was given to the possibility of growing strawberries from seed on rockwool. The latest research with WUR has shown that this works very well. From left to right; Kleber Pereira (breeder), Gé Bentvelsen (CEO) and Philip Smits (President Commissioner).

EMS 'ambassador' Jacco van Besuijen was also present.

Bas van Schie, Jeffrey den Hertog and Cor den Hertog from Pento.

Richard Stikkelman and Robert Kemeling of Kemeling Kunststoffen were there to talk to everyone.

Dion Roos, Erik van Wijland and Cor-Hein Slobbe of Isolectra

Hans Baekelmans and Frank Janssen represented Grodan.

Lex Kneppers and Jasper Lesterhuis of Van Eck Bedrijfshygiëne bv were also present.

Ron Groenewald of Doek en Draad had Peter van Adrichem of Loonbedrijf Peter van Adrichem visit the stand.

Working faster and more accurately through smart weighing technology, according to Jan Hoek and Kasper van der Hilst of LRE Innovatin Weighing Solutions.

Gerard van Doesburg and Everard de Bruin of De Bruin Plantpot were at the fair with their new autumn colours.

Steven Madern and Isabelle Poessé of 30MHz, thumbs up and going for day 3.

Robbie van Beek from Berkvens, at one of their Greenlifts.

Ard Ammerlaan of Prudac was also walking around the fair and came across his own Ponchi-Re Tomatoes.

"Rather our products on it than us". Arranged for Van der Lande

Fred Deijs, Albers Alligator, was there to talk to everyone despite his jet lag.

At the Mertens stand, Dik Lenssen was busy talking to Willem Delisse of WDP.

Thomas Verburg of Cindro brought not only silver-stabilised hydrogen peroxide, but also a nanobubble machine to the fair.

Boy van der Ham and Daan van Winden of Vollebregt Barten.

Richard van de Waart, commercial director at Martin Stolze, was also present at the fair.

Peet van Adrichem of Hortitech, International Horticultural Training.

The LilyMatic of Hans van der Poel.

Wim van der Voort (far right) in the picture with his successors: Kris Kort in the field, Brian Rijgersberg in the production hall. Wim is not stopping, but he will take it easy.

Always good conversations at MechaTronics.

Hans van der Poel at the LilyMatic. A must have for the bulb growers. The first 12 machines have been sold internationally.

Bart Link and Tim Post of Van der Mark Boiler Maintenance. For the Lierse company, it was the first time as an exhibitor at HortiContact.

Is Patrick Casteleyn toasting a new collaboration with Jelle Pippel of LIS, grower of Lisianthus?

Ronald Vervloed and Tom Vos of Gebr. Eveleens were also present.

The men from Rovero: Jan van Hemert, Jacco van Delden and Reijer van den Herik.

Vincent Kuijvenhoven and Albert Haket of Horconex.

At the Certis stand, Peter Jan Verdoold and Jesse Borghardt, among others, were pulling people in with their virtual reality game. The game was to promote their product Botanigard, an agent against white fly in tomatoes.

The well-known fist was well represented at the fair. Force Demolition changed to new fists at the beginning of this year.

Ed Gerrits of Frans Veugen.

In the stand of ICL the action for free manure box APK was promoted. You can still register for it in the coming month! In the picture, from left to right: Eric Brachter, Roel Bloemert and Riny Westdijk of ICL and Klaas-Jan de Ruiter of Holland Gaas.

The Fist of Force, handed out in chocolate form at the fair

Mike and Raymond Zwirs, of Zwirs Hortiprojects.

The largest flowers at the fair were to be found at the stand of Bending Masters - Inspired by Thermo-control bending. The stand was manned by, among others, John and Simone van Hagen.

Bauke Kootstra and Robert de Bruin of Zantingh Energy Services bv together with Ad Liefhebber of Den Hartog

Bart Hagenbeek of Protix talking to Hans Jacob (left).

Johanna van Tilburg of ZHE Trading was also present at the fair. Johanna gave extra attention to their new all-round machine. You can literally hang everything behind it, ideal for apple orchards or tree nurseries, for example.

André Eblé, Geert Nell and Peter den Boer in the shared stand of Bosman Van Zaal and Montera Techniek

Bart Hagenbeek, Alexander van Hessen and Thijs Kapteijns. Thijs explained that their fertiliser restores the ecological balance in the soil.

Jan Hoeflak and Johan van Tuijl in the picture on behalf of AgrowSer. In the background, far left Eric van der Klauw in conversation.

Eric Gerritsma with the Airmix Robot from Holland Green Machine.

Mark Looije and Ben Hogervorst manning the stand of Looije Agro Technics.

The team of Agro Energy.

An exciting photo at Re-Power, with Hendrik van Zuiden on the far left.

Erwin van Lier, also visited the fair. HBV coatings, supplier of horticultural paint for in and around the greenhouse.

Tamar Hoogstad of Array Industries in the stand with Rob Wessels and Marco Noordman of Hug Engineering.

Sven Willems and Kurt Lauwers of Willems Perlite. A Bergisch reunion at the Dutch HortiContact.

Martijn Joore and Marcel van Oudheusden of MvO Energy with a clear message in the background.

Frank van Leijen, Lorenzo van der Ark of Thermeta, are visited by Jan Willem Nederpelt of CV Nederpelt & co (centre).

Pouring concrete in the background, the trade fair team of Verkade Beton in the foreground

Lex Dofferhoff and Peter Zethof of MEEGAA show various substrates.

The ladies from Nivola stood out at the fair in bright orange: Usha van der Drift, Paula van der Leede and Marion van Rijsbergen - Lestraden.

Tom Zwanenburg from van der Waay and Peter Rense from Holland Scherming.

Hortilux brought the Hortiled Top Intense luminaire.

How nice to see each other again after that very long corona period! Chris Aarts from C & E Draad Bewerking, Tom Zwanenburg from van der Waay, Peter Rense from Holland Scherming and Klaas Jan de Ruiter from Holland Gaas.

A quick chat at Elektravon-Haket.

Arwin van der Wees of SPX Flow, Tom van Reeven of TK-Topboiler bv and Dinant Bauer of SPX Flow.

Around the corner from Agrozone: ECO Filter

Sander Zuidgeest of Steenks talking to Carlo Zwinkels.

The improved sunlight from the LED lamps of Rofianda could also be found in Gorinchem.

Tom Koot, Ren Tom, Dennis de Korte, Fred Ruijgt, Rick van den Burgh and Hannah Verhage from Priva.

Jan Verduijn, Zoë Wesstein and Timothy van der Toorn of Nitea IT Solutions

Edith Post and Luc van Roij of Engie, to delicious coffee made by a real Barista.

Sometimes you had to search for the right stand. Sometimes a note helped you on the right track.

Pieter Ammerlaan and Stephan Kruithof of Havecon talking to visitors.

Olivier Begerem and Wouter De Bruyker of 2Grow visited Ruud Schoenmakers and Sonny Moerenhout of Cultivators.

Floris Koomen, Charlotte Pijnenburg and Frank van Holsteijn of Signify

InnovatieTafels are still looking for entrepreneurs

Wigand Wildenborg, Ronald Hijdra and Jurgen Soutjesdijk of Jenbacher, with visitors at the table.

Eric Aerts and Dennis Douma of Alfa Accountants and Advisors at the stand with a liquidity overview on the screen. The term liquidity is often used in times of crisis.

Henk Meulstee, Bart Eekhout and Hans Hoogland of Flier Systems, as one of the innovations they showed the development of automatic beach planting of grafted tomato/pepper plants in a transplant line.

Harrie Jonker of FruitMasters on the photo with fresh soft fruit. For FruitMasters the move meant that it was easier to show fresh produce at the stand. No storage berries this time.

René Polak of Usho Germany on the left is good friends with Jan Mulder of Duch Lighting Innovations.

Nico Doff of Veldwerk Koerier. The company regularly arranges urgent transports for companies in the sector and also does contract work.

Jelle, Marjolijn and Caroline of Uniglobe.

Energy in glasshouse horticulture, Dordtech brought a video about it.

Reneé Klaver, Frank van der Spek and Eric van Vliet. Enza Zaden identifies a gene that offers high resistance to ToBRFV.

Shop for your Christmas gift at Koornneef.

Hoogendoorn, Bart 't Hoen, Raisa Weterings, Laurent v.d. Ende and Johan Kodde, put their climate computer IIVO in the picture.

The Svensson team at the fair.

Tim Kreuger of Van der Ende Groep explains to visitors of the stand.

Jan Willem de Vries of Wageningen university & research, the last time at the fair before he retires.

Eric Kerklaan of HortiPro was visited by Sjoerd van Marrewijk of Vertify. Together with his father Rinie, Sjoerd toured the trade fair.

Lies van Geest of Tuprotec talks about ozone-enriched water for better plant rooting.

A note showing how much companies are looking for people. Many companies in the sector are experiencing labour shortages.

Henk van Dam of Globe Plant talking to Ralph van de Grijp of Bongers Expeditie.

Bas van der Elst and Nicolle Peetoom at the stand of Hendic and DL Plastics

Peter van Lexmond, a quick laugh, because he is busy talking. By the way, did you know that Meteor Systems exists 25 years this year?

Hans Nieuwstraten of Horconex Screen Systems was busy with a chocolate construction.

René Polak of Usho Germany on the left is good friends with Jan Mulder of Duch Lighting Innovations.

Steven Madern and Hans Belt of 30MHZ at the mega screen displaying the company's solutions.

Horconex focused on heating and screening at HortiContact. On the photo: Hans Nieuwstraten and Vincent Kuijvenhoven.

Laurens Besemer of Ventiguard, proudly announces that he has become the 75th member of the AVAG.

Julie Beurskens and Johan de Vos of Geling Advies were new at the fair. On the advice of clients from other agricultural sectors, they had come to Gorinchem to bridge the gap with the (greenhouse) horticulture sector.

Peter Oosterlee of CH2O bv.

Paskal's team showed the company's various cultivation solutions, which they use to help growers provide solutions for today's challenges. Bio-degradable products, for example, but also the Optima V2 truss retainer that will be launched next year.

Hans Verdonschot and René Sleutel of Aelmans Adviesgroep hoped to meet customers and perhaps new colleagues at the fair.

Jack Vlottes, Dave Boer, Ronald Kloppenburg andWillem Vriezen of Huisman fencing.

Agro-LED, which does the work for C-LED in the Benelux and beyond, presented a new product of Italian manufacture at the fair: the Futura lamp. A lamp that can be installed in a multi-layer set-up and controlled with one driver.

Kevin and Roland Gulik of XL Bedrijfskleding.

Jorid van der Meijden, Ramón van de Vrie and Maarten van Bemmel of Ledgnd discussed the latest LED developments at the fair.

Mark Vijverberg does the technical side within AAB nl, and Jacques van der Knaap is a broker and appraiser.

Harmke Broekhuis, Priscilla Malcolm and Vincent Jalink at the fair took the newly started company NLResearch.

The Oerlemans men, Henri van Hemert, Piet van den Oord and Tim Minnaard also visited the fair, of course.

The NLResearch stand featured a climate chamber made by Bronson Climate. NLResearch conducts research in it.

Tim Kreuger, Roland Welts, Rosalie Gijberts and Rob van Hulzen of van der Ende.

Vincent Jalink of NLResearch is satisfied with the climate chambers of Rob Hoogenboom of Bronson Climate

Rob van Leeuwen of F&H Crone talks about the size of their boilers.

Humidity measurement in Condair's stand.

There were some three hundred stands at HortiContact 2022.

Barend Löbker of Vortus Greenhouse Consultants did a tour of the fair.

Bèta Industrie handed out syrup waffles and managed to get a lot of interested people to visit the stand.

The exhibition team of Bèta Industrie at a vibrating screen. The company comes on the market with a vibrating sieve with an even higher capacity.

René van Ruijven and Cor Oversloot of consultancy firm Vyverberg

Jan Willem de Vries and Jacqueline van Oosten of Wageningen University & Research. The Club of 100 is approaching the number of 100 companies.

A large delegation from the WUR made a tour of the exhibition and also visited colleagues Jan Willem de Vries and Jacqueline van Oosten (3rd and 5th from left).

Quite a photo shoot to get the Fluence team on the picture with those bright LED lights - but it worked.

Rainlevelr promotion with a beer glass this year at HortiContact. In the photo: Gai Vegter and Saskia Jouwersma

Harm van Adrichem, Ab van Staalduinen and Simone Keijzer of Gearbox Innovations next to their GearStation.

Raymond van den Berg of ISO Group. Moving robots are always good at trade fairs.

Tom Verdonck of Tomeco, Tom Lefevre of Hortipower and Martin van Tol of LetsGrow.com

Lars Dukker and Aad van Dijk of LetsGrow.com demonstrated how you can work in the greenhouse with the aid of a Google Glass equipped with special software.

Team Kroes is currently busy at Globe Plant, which can also be found a little further down the exhibition path.

Arpo brought a new greenhouse heating hose to the fair.

In the midst of all this, you could follow the Giro d'Italia at PDI's stand. Grazie Jeroen!

Mark van Gijzen, Pieter Jan Robbemont and Philip Eekma manned the stand of Enthoven Techniek and Patron Agri Systems.

René Gipmans of Gipmans Planten visiting the stand of Werner van Mullekom and Cees de Haan of Agrozone

Bert Strikkers of Alumat Zeeman in the photo with John and Charmaine Torenstra of HS Horticultural Service

Ron van der Burg of Nobutec Greenhouses in the shared stand with Alsemgeest Scherminstallaties. Recently Nobutec also has a branch that builds padel courts: Padel Nederland.

Arjen de Haan and Arnold Kloostra of CHV market biostimulants.

Arthur de Bruin, far right, will retire from SchermNed at the end of this month. He was at the fair with Carl Stougie and John van Hasenbroek.

Renko Schuil and Geert Maris of TTA

Marco van 't Hart of FlexiBell Systems Group. Last year, the company told us about the direction it is taking: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9346134/we-handle-complete-greenhouse-projects-flexib-el-ly/

James Thompson and Roland Louwsma of LouwSon Energy. Prior to the trade fair, they had already made some noise and they profited from that at the trade fair. The company, which was at HortiContact for the first time, also sees the interest in biogas rising in the Netherlands.

Dennis Colpa and Marcel Weering of Jiffy brought various types of substrate to Gorinchem.

Roy Visser and Mark van der Ende of Agro-LED had invited producer Raffaello Montanari of C-LED.

The humidity at Condair's stand was quite good. The company, known from humidification, makes the step to greenhouse farming with dehumidification. Humidification systems are used in the packaging industry, among others. Through that market, Condair came into contact with greenhouse horticulture. In the photo: Stefan Rijsmus.

The layout of the fair was similar to the one in 2020. More space for larger stands, fewer rows of small booths.

Joachim Bieber and Alexander Siemerink of IMC Cross-Border Business were at the fair to talk about housing.

Sem Broersen of By Broersen came to visit Sven Fitters and Frank van Amelsvoort of Van Amelsvoort Kassenbouw. Later this year they are going to build an extra piece of greenhouse for the grower.

Rik Egberts and Jeroen van Beek of Saled Nederland brought their lighting solutions.

Jordi Mol and Stephan den Boer of Bever Innovations. The company exists 25 years this year and is well known in the sector with its Leaf Carrier.

Joy Godrie and Maurice van Erven of Klasmann-Deilmann Benelux flanked Co-Anne Kranenburg-van Waaij. Sjors Beijer was also photographed from the exhibition wall.

Wiel Nies with his invention: the tube lift.

Dominique Blok in his glory on behalf of Hinova.

For Gerard and Hans Vereijken of Vereijken Kwekerijen a round of the fair is tradition.

Glenn Grootenboer and Robert de Hoo of Ultramins had a special piece of furniture made for the fair. An animation was played on the screen explaining the ultrasonic technique for water treatment.

Jan and Lars van Marrewijk of Van Marrewijk Tomatoes in Dinteloord. A few years ago the grower family moved to the village in Brabant.

On day two there were queues at the entrance. Wednesday was the busiest day of the fair.

Alex Punte and Maria Wiggers of Reldair presented an upgrade of their misting system.

Regina Nieuwmijer of Veha Plastics and Hilde van Steijn of Dosatron International at a Dosatron pump.

Alberti Pouwels, Wim Esselink and Wout Sprangers at the Elpress hygiene sluice

Kees van Paassen of Sercom talking to Albert van Dam of Trintech.

Piet Mertens at the stand of Pull Rhenen between vermiculite and perlite.

Patrick Winkelman and Wim Veninga of Lensli Substrates. There were various substrate mixes on the stand to see and feel.

We also met Gert-Jan Mulder, Georgette and André van der Stoel of Industrial Product Solutions at the fair.

Jasper van der Auweraert and Dennis van der Wiel of Plantfellow, which focuses on the automation of crop protection techniques. For example, a camera counts the catch on a catch plate.

Aad van Dijk of The Greenery paid a visit to his brother at the fair.

Erwin Gräfe and Robert Zuyderwijk of B+H-Solutions GmbH. Together they conducted research into the difference in photosynthesis for different water treatments in gerbera.

Erwin Gräfe and Arie Draaijer of Sendot on the picture with John van Ruyven of JVR Tecmar and Wouter Kuijvenhoven of Fortaplant.

Maarten van Hagen and Rick Buijtene in the shared stand of Mustang Demolition and Kerklaan Greenhouses

Thijs Nillesen with 'NTV veteran' Jos Groenewegen of Maurice Kassenbouw

Jeroen Hartman and Ruurd van Slageren of The Green World Company look beyond floating solar panels. They want to help growers get the most out of the power they generate. This means that, in the event of negative electricity prices, they will not return the power to the grid, but use it, for example, for local hydrogen production.

Ren van der Horst, Kris Kort and Brian Rijgersberg of Spuitbedrijf R. van der Horst.

Jan Voshol of Voshol was visited by Ed Jebbink of Johnson Controls

Jurgen Haitsma of ReduNOx and Martijn Joore of MvO Energy shared a stand.

Martin van Meurs and Jurgen van Eijk of Lek/Habo with Job Bossers of JB Hydroponics at the Lek/Habo stand shared with VTI Horst.

Erwin van der Mark of Van der Mark Ketelonderhoud talked about football 50% of the time at the fair and about boilers 50% of the time. Some people at the fair also know him as the chairman of SV Honselersdijk football club.

At Kemeling Kunststoffen, you could win a boat trip with the home-made plastic Westlander. In the photo: Jeannette van der Post and Robert Kemeling.

Erik Jaspers of PlantoSys with hygienist Jan Willem Keijzer of Royal Brinkman

Ruud Grootscholten and Fred Odenkirchen of Metazet FormFlex. Fred recently posted a special story on social media, showing his own history: https://www.groentennieuws.nl/article/9410927/fred-odenkirchen/

At the Veldwerk Koerier stand big shoppers were available. Handy for storing all the 'harvest' from the stands after a tour of the fair.

Bas van der Bruggen of Traycon Projecten, which constructs container fields, among other things.

Henry van Wijk of APH Techniek in the photo with the Hydrokar pipe rail trailer, which is in great demand by contract workers. The company is busy engineering to arrive at a final model.

Sven Koorneef shows new colleague Lars van Os the most important stand of the fair - that of Groentennieuws. They both work at AAB, where the energy crisis is of course the talk of the town.

Rosanne Brabander of Verkade Klimaat with Rosa Jacobs and Nathalie van der Ende of KUBO.

Maria Gsellmann of Plantlife Technologies visits the fair

Pascal Philipsen and Katinka Koden of Timac Agro take a tour of the fair.

Jos Hilkens, mushroom expert at Advisie, and Marcel Cuijpers of Snack Products do a tour of the fair.

Marco Visser, Robbie van den Ende and Philip van der Haas of Gakon Netafim

Melina Audette, from Canada, recently started her internship at Florensis. She is visiting the HortiContact with colleague Eric de Groot.

Aprovis, represented by Thomas Ruckner, produces flue gas cleaners, among other things. They are shipped all over the world from Germany.

Ronald Kloppenburg is completely at home at Huisman Scherming.

Fraukje van Breukelen and Peter Barentsen of Oreon

Martijn Haas of InHolland

Fred and Mark van den Tempel of Stabilit show the SoLight solution for installing solar panels in the greenhouse roof.

Mark van den Tempel and Leonard van Vliet from Stabilit with the various greenhouse roof solutions.

Irene Vaninnen and Esa Palmujoki of Enlite Horti show their 2-in-1 toplight TL-840 and the Optima Efficia

The HPNow team: Jan-Jacob Mekes & Tiret Dwanarain, show their solution for water purification at the nursery.

Andrzej Kornafel & Chiara Fantoni of Lux Lighting

Richard Duijvestijn of Kwekerij Brasil flanked by Jan Vellekoop and Kees Verkade of PDI

The Blues Brothers of Sigrow.

Jacco Vooijs of Glastuinbouw Westland

Calm before the storm at Biobest

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