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Henk Verbakel (Havecon Greenhouse construction) was visited by Nu.nl:

This is how your greenhouse is being made

Growing a tomato might take serious time, but so does making a greenhouse. In a recently published video of a Dutch news website, a part of the process is shown. 

The journalists visited Havecon Horticultural Projects, one of Netherlands biggest greenhouse builders. They opened their new venture this year and from this location supply growers all over the world with high-tech greenhouses. This includes greenhouses for vegetables and, since a couple of years, also many greenhouses for the growing cannabis industry - an emerging industry that has helped the 13-year old company grow even more rapid. 

International company
Nowadays sixty to sixty-five percent of the company’s revenue is earned outside of the Dutch borders. Can Henk explain why foreign growers keep coming back to the Dutch greenhouse builders? “I think that, as a sector, we are difficult to imitate mainly due to the complexity of everything that is needed for constructing a greenhouse.”

See the full item here (Dutch)

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