Meteor Systems is celebrating its twenty-fifth birthday . The party produces and pass on complete develop systems for nursery horticulture , including mature systems , irrigation , pipe rail supports , longsighted beams , scaffolding , fruit back , and growing solutions for NFT , DFT , and CEA ( Controlled - Environment Agriculture ) . Their products are used for turn veg , balmy fruit , cut flowers , medicinal cannabis , and leafy vegetables .
Over these 25 geezerhood , they have gain a lot of experience and noesis , which they portion out with their customers . Peter Lexmond : " The cultivation of strawberries is a good example . We have so much knowledge about it . In fact , we declare oneself everything : tray field for farm strawberry plants ( sometimes with the toilet plant above ) , refinement systems for indoor and outdoor finish , yield shelters , and more . in reality , we provide everything from the cuttings to the terminal product . "
Peter Lexmond has been involved with Meteor Systems practically from the beginning . So Peter has been around for a while . Of naturally , a batch has change since he start . What has not deepen , agree to him , are the short communication lines . " We can alternate quickly . "
Meteor had only existed for 2 years and employed 15 people when Peter join . By now , the identification number of staff has turn over 100 in Breda , 15 in Canada , and one at their own Taiwanese entity for that market . Around this permanent layer of parturiency is another flexible stratum built with temporary and ego - employed workers .
" We have show ourselves"They started with drip irrigation at the time . In the root , it was difficult to get a footing in the instal market . " The food market was judder up a flake when we approached agriculturist ourselves . We used that direct contact with agriculturist as an opportunity to prove ourselves . We hardly do that anymore . Now , most of it goes through the installers , " confirms Peter .
The yield and sale of complete cultivation scheme were achieved a little later , at the end of the 90 . When they started , the scaling - up in the horticultural sector had just begun . That was good timing . They were able to ride the wafture . tomato plant , rose , and strawberry came first , fall out by cuke , peppercorn , and aubergines . And geographically , it was the Netherlands and North America first . Meteor now sells their develop systems worldwide .
Steps takenThere have been quite a few of them . Too many to mention them all here . After the outgrowth of the mart and with it the party , the next footstep was the acquisition of Worm Lathum from Duiven . In 2009 , this doubled the sizing of the company in one barbarous slide .
premise in Breda
The next milepost was also refer to these takeovers ; the agency in Duiven ( former Worm Lathum ) and Etten - Leur move to Breda . " The merger has turn out well . particularly in term of logistics and communication , the advantages are gravid , " say Peter .
The Canada / China team
The opening of the branch in Leamington , Canada ( 2005 ) for the North American marketplace and that in Shanghai , China ( 2019 ) can not go unmentioned as significant steps in Meteor ’s history .
PatentThe company is also work on hard in the area of mathematical product development . The late achievement is the patent for cultivation with small substratum . This help apportion with the problems surround peat extraction and provides an solvent to a engineering - based advance to food output . In brusk , the seed is grown and settle down on a grow domiciliation . This tablet is then placed on a float or industrial plant common carrier to allow the plants to produce further . The same pad can then be place in a grow cupful and delivered to the chain store .
Peter : " Retailers want less dirt residuum in the shop . Customers incur this messy , and it is not pleasant in terms of presentation . The cups can be made of biodegradable material . No plastic is involve anymore . Another big advantage is the lengthened shelf living . Consumers draw the benefits flat . By the way , we recently pitched this conception during the Ahold Beter Eten Festival 2022 . It was good . Interest has been aroused , and we ca n’t wait to roll this out further . We ’ll keep you posted . "
For more information : Meteor Systems BredaMinervum 7081,4817 ZK Breda,+31 76 504 28 42[email protected]www.meteorsystems.nl
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