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"As already announced at this year's IPM, we have once again succeeded in further developing our quality wood fibre Lignofibre. From now on, the new variant Lignofibre c hydro is available as a further and particularly effective peat substitute", reports Gramoflor sales manager Michael Nordlohne.
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) invites you to two online workshops “Off the peat path - Alternative substrates for mushroom cultivation” on April 4 and “Off the peat path - Wood fibres as an alternative to peat in...
As part of the "Innovation Center Horticultural Technology" at the IPM took place on Wednesday, a panel discussion on the subject of peat reduction. Eva Kähler-Theuerkauf, Vice President of ZVG, Ulrike Wegener, Managing Director of GGS, Melanie Bank from the Chamber of Agriculture, Thomas Kramer,...
On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the Agency of Renewable Resources (FNR) invites you to the online workshop "Off the peat path - Suitability and availability of alternative substrates for peat use in European horticulture" on 22 November 2022.
The run on renewable raw materials for substrate production has already begun and is set to intensify. "We haven't been talking about peat for a long time now, but about a potpourri of aggregates for substrate production," welcomed Ulrike Fockenberg, Sales Manager Germany, to a journalists' day at...
Josef Hermann Gramann: "The real challenge is that with the peat phase-out, everything has become much more complicated. Many new raw materials have come in and are affecting the blends."
The substrate producer Gramoflor has been around for over 100 years. In 1908, Anton Gramann founded a peat trading company in Vechta. This was followed by the company's own peat extraction and later, in the 1990s, the production of horticultural substrates. Today, Josef Hermann Gramann is the head...
"We always try to switch to ecological technologies or cultivation methods at an early stage," explains Dirk Klefer, who is the third generation to run the retail business. For him and his parents Renate and Hermann Klefer, who are still active in the business, it has long been clear to reduce the...
The programme of GreenTech Amsterdam, from 14 – 16 June at RAI Amsterdam, has been supplemented by new highlights such as "Tomato virus", "Digital phenotyping" and "Peat alternatives". The new day-to-day highlights are presented below.
Floragard Vertriebs-GmbH from Oldenburg announces that the business operations and trademark rights of Terracult International have been taken over as of 1 November 2021. With this step, Floragard's position on the world market for professional substrates will be further expanded.
