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At the end of this year, Smiemans Projecten will start the construction of an ambitious project for the well-known Gothenburg Botanical Garden. It involves a new botanical greenhouse and associated greenhouses with a total area of 3,216 m2.
Helle-Tech Oy and Bloemteknik (t/a Bloem) announce a collaborative venture to introduce modular adjustable LED fixtures designed specifically for high wire and leafy green growers.
Longacres, the UK's largest independent garden centre, is to be extended by Smiemans Projecten in early 2025. The work includes the garden centre's cold sales area and restaurant.
Artemy is the brand-new harvest robot developed jointly by DENSO Corporation and Certhon, and it is ready for the commercial market. The robot is equipped with advanced vision technology for scanning the crop by its maturity and harvests ripe truss tomatoes.
Late 2023, Signify was commissioned by its recurring customer, Jami Tomatoes BV, the Netherlands, to provide a full LED installation, consisting of Philips GreenPower LED toplighting compact (TLC) and Philips GreenPower LED Interlighting. The installation provides up to 250 µmol/m2/sec of...
Smiemans Projecten, specialist in building garden centres, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Rovero Systems, known for its groundbreaking patented Roll-Air Retail foil greenhouse. This collaboration enriches the range of complete turnkey projects in Europe and strengthens the...
In 2004, Smiemans Projecten built a greenhouse for plant sale at the beautiful garden 'RHS Garden Harlow Carr' in Harrogate (UK). Recently, Smiemans has been commissioned by the RHS to renovate the garden centre. It will be carried out by their local partner Ebtech Glasshouse Construction Ltd this...
Signify supplied Sunterra Greenhouses, in Acme, Alberta, Canada, with Philips GreenPower LED lighting in 2021. Sunterra has since reported two successful production cycles over their tomato and strawberry ranges. Installing Philips LED technology has proven to be a game-changer for Sunterra...
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, and Wageningen University & Research are extending their collaboration in the Innovation & Demonstration Center in Bleiswijk for the application of Philips GreenPower LED lighting in horticulture (IDC-LED). This will allow their research...
The energy prices are very high. And we see this reflected in our use of light installations. HPS lamps are being switched off and replaced by LED lights, which are not only more economical, but can also be dimmed. We still need to use artificial light, but by using it in smarter ways, we can...
DENSO Corporation, Japan, has announced that it has acquired the full stake in Certhon Group, a Dutch horticultural facility operator, with the aim of accelerating the global expansion of its agricultural production business.
Australia and New Zealand’s largest commercial greenhouse construction company, Apex Greenhouses, has agreed to sell a minority stake to GreenV, a group of individual companies that work seamlessly together, each delivering the best technology, products and services in their own domain of...
Smiemans has started with the renovation of the Dvorak garden centre in Teplice/Czech Republic. This 1,400 m2 project was built by them in 2008. To optimise the indoor climate in the garden centre the roof, ventilation windows and screens will be replaced. This will result in further energy...
According to the public media, exhibitors, visitors and the many country delegations, GreenTech Amsterdam proves to be the place to be for product launches and quality meetings. The remarkable growth of 7% in visitors numbers to 11,500 (compared to 2022) underlines the increasing interest and...
In recent years, there has been an increase in damage caused by burst water tanks. The damage to the tank itself is usually the least of the problems.
GreenTech is pleased to announce that 6 from the 34 submissions have been nominated, in 2 categories ‘Innovation’ and ‘Concept’, for the GreenTech Innovation & Concept Awards 2023. “A clear signal that horticulture is a highly innovative sector”, says the jury. The winner per category will be...
The Saudi Arabian company Dava Agricultural is further expanding its greenhouse acreage. The company Dava, owned by the Al-Batal family, has signed a contract for a new semi-closed greenhouse of 23 hectares to be built with their long-term partner Debets Schalke. Dava’s greenhouse complexes...
Continuing its growth path fueling significant plans for expansion, Pure Flavor announces the acquisition of Cervini Farms C5 in Leamington, ON to add to its expanding portfolio of greenhouses and distribution centres.
On the 15th of February a high-level delegation of Kazakhstani governmental officials and investors, led by the Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, visited the World Horti Center in Westland. The visit aimed to strengthen the...
The world's largest horticultural trade fair had to take a break for two years because of a small virus. Now the next edition of IPM Essen will start from 24 to 27 January 2023 - and expects many visitors from all over the world!
