GreenTech Amsterdam 2023

Let's take a look at the Plant Compounds Pavilion.

The Pipp Horticulture team was of course present at the show. Here they are ready for another busy day of meetings

Alberto Espinosa and Juan Francisco Moreno of J. Huete

Bob Hoogland of Cannabis-Drying.com, along with Tommie Heijmans and Bart Jansen of Brightlabs

Taylor Mantel and Thomas Larssen of CEAd

Pim Molenaars, Sonny Moerenhout and Willem van Dijk of Cultivators.

Julian Sanchez-Ballesteros of Paralab showed the Mobius and Triminator post-harvest machines. As they let us know in an article the other day, Mobius sees automation as the future for post-harvest in cannabis: https://www.mmjdaily.com/article/9518815/post-harvest-cannabis-automation-equipment-the-future-of-the-industry/

Arnau Juscafresa and Gerard Monerris of Master Products. Although developments in the European cannabis market are currently a bit slow, the company sees a lot of potential in the future: https://www.mmjdaily.com/article/9522855/the-market-lost-a-bit-of-momentum-last-year-but-now-the-mood-is-a-lot-more-optimistic/

Lucas Targos and Jesse de Bree of urban-gro.

Padraig O'Hara of GreenTech Environmental. Their GreenTech Filters+ with ODOGard technology destroys the smell of cannabis at the molecular level.

Rachel Lee, Ivy Young, Charlie Yang, and Richard Liu of LeDinPro Lighting.

Of course Pelemix is also present to showcase their coir and substrates, here Shmuel Vanhotzker.

Daniel Morales and Albert Rodriguez of Virex, the European suppliers of California Lightworks LED lights.

California Lightworks showed the benefits of their MegaDrive system.

Ramon Verheggen of Light4Food and Marc van Sonsbeek of Plagron

Stacey Vincent of Concert Bio, which helps companies manage their microbiome. They are currently running a pilot program for CEA growers.

Jubao Zhang and Alex Ren of Anhui Seedlinghome Horticulture Technology. Their pots, trays and hanging baskets can be seen on the walls.

Ian Ilett and Marina Farrera present Growth Technology's nutrients.

Frank Brouns and Samuel Gluck of Weiss Klimatechnik. In the background is a climate chamber used to conduct climate tests with plants. They also have cooling systems for vertical farms (see right).

David from Monkey Soil, whose substrates and nutrients are mostly used by cannabis growers.

The Plant Compounds Stage featured three days of speakers with insights on cannabis. Featured here: Tim Oates, CEO of Delta Tetra Group.

A panel discussion on the Plant Compounds Stage. Here Tim Oates of Delta Tetra Group, Rene Corsten of Delphy and Lucas Targos of urban-gro are having a discussion.

Matt Desmond, Les Round and Daniel Lee of PSL Printed Systems brought their LED bulbs from the U.K.

Spring Xia of Babala (Xiamen) Agri-tech Co. The company offers climate sensors as well as container farm systems.

Vincent Maley and Fabien Cuq of AirGaia are attending GreenTech for the first time. They have developed a dehumidifier that is also an air treatment system. Want to know more? We talked to them about it a while back: https://www.mmjdaily.com/article/9471818/a-dehumidifier-and-air-treatment-system-in-one-responding-to-the-varying-temperature-and-humidity-needs/

Winna Chen and Winner Au of APT Electronics.

Hasan Yilmaz, Gorkem Kaleli and Umit Uysal of Bahar Aydinlatma, a Turkish lamp company showing here Spectbee, the brand focused on lamps for cultivation.

Henry Zeng and Jans Simoza Abrams of Nanolux.

Maria Starostina of Fermata, whose Croptimus platform monitors the crop 24/7 to detect pests and diseases.

Coleman Retzlaff of Quest Dehumidifiers.

Sergio Julian of Libelium. The company offers IoT solutions that help optimize irrigation and fertilizer use, for example.

Drs. Ron Galiart of Plant Research, a research company with a scientific exemption for growing medicinal cannabis.

Bluelab's newest product: the Bluelab Guardian Monitor WI-FI. Combined with the new Edenic app, you get instant notifications on your mobile and have remote control of your crop.

Nurfan Akcan and Mehmet Emin Gurocak of NUN Horticulture from Turkey.

Robin van Schip, recently employed by Schreurs, next to the Red Naomi heart.

The booth of MOSO Power Supply Technology.

Marnix de Jong, Jan Piet Kastelein (Buwatec) and Bas van der Elst and Nicolle Peetoom of Delaflex

KG Systems presented one of their vertical farm setups

André van der Kloet, Caroline Reid and Kazbek Toleubayev of Bioline. Predafix+ is Bioline Agrosciences' latest innovation for improving crop protection in greenhouses. Successful pest control depends on an optimal number of predatory mites in the crop. This unique sprayable formula will improve the number of beneficial mites, their distribution and homogeneity in the crop.

Edwin van Dop and Thorben Looije of Valto

Edwin Reijnen of VDL presented a new nozzle. The two tangential keyways make spray so small that it cannot precipitate on the crop; it can evaporate directly (and thus absorb heat)

Dany Mestdag holds the batery of the E Geotec pro. Of course, the E stands for elictrical, so this Geotec is perfect for the greenhouse. Next to Dany, Patrick Germaey of Terrazza MC. https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9537939/a-machine-for-cleaning-coverings-with-geotextiles/

Stephan Kruithof, Jon Adams, Hans van der Salm, Quirine van Gemert, Pieter Ammerlaan, Henk Verbakel and Justin Lukoff of Havecon

Simon Jones and Roger Vos of Genap were part of the Royal Brinkman booth

John van der Sande, Lotte van Rijn and Jeffrey van der Sande of Certhon

The enthusiastic team of Debets Schalke was present

Thermeta: Nico van Scheppingen, Frank van Leijen and Lorenzo van Ark

Oreon's booth was busy. Customers always come first. Very good. So an action photo of Jan Mol.

Onno Calf of Foundation Control Food & Flowers (part of Normec Groen Agro Control). This foundation does fundamental research

Boy de Nijs of Ridder at Grow tomato harvesting robot. The first field trials are up and running.

Mauricio Yanez and Titia Meuwise of Greenspec: "Greenspec is doing well with their climate solutions for mid- and high-tech."

Trond Vegger is the founder of Gavita. He is pictured here with Vidar Nordby. Vidar is sales director for the Nordics at Gavita / Agrolux.

Peter van Putten of Vostermans Ventilation

André Breugem, Arjan Haasdijk (Schep), Ed Roeleveld and Geert Willem van Weert (Vitotherm). Soon you will hear more about Vitotherm. They have news.

Geert Willem van Weert and Ed Roeleveld of Vitotherm

Jack Vijverberg, Rob Bekkering and Sander Zwinkels of Van der Valk. Their driveline is further developed. Screen installations are being used more intensively than ever, and their system has been further developed for that.

Grace Suradi, Marcella Silva and Maceij Krol of Philips Horticulture

Salmon Xu of Plantii. Plantii is the Chinese partner in China

Wouter Voortman and Tom Reeven of BKC at their electric boiler. This is used to fill the buffer

Rens Wijnen and Silvie Oerlemans, Meteor Systems

Barry Roessen (Scre3ns), Laurens Besemer (Ventiguard), Willem Vriezen, Jack Vlottes and Dave Boer (Huisman Scherming)

Intra Horti shows the new trolley. A handy tool for working in the greenhouse

Mario Smid, Yentl Blokstra and Rody de Graaf of Cultiléne. Together with Hoogendoorn and Plant Empowerment, among others, they ensure less use of water and nutrients.

Jaime Ahumada, Delphy. Jaime will mainly focus on the MCPIR.

Frank Boers and Frank Bastiaansen of Meteor Systems. The 1st takes over from the 2nd

Michel de Zeeuw, Peter Rense, Leon Bekenes and Ramon Bruers of Holland Scherming

Marcel Schulte, Klaas-Jan de Ruiter, Frank van Steekelenburg,Gert Hollaar and Dennis de Zeeuw of Holland Gaas.

Robert Jan de Goeij, Ilona de Ligt, Maarten van Hagen, Dionne de Boer, Robin Hakkert and Welmoet Lugt of Boal Group

Pascal den Heijer (Scre3ns) and Ilias Choudalis were in attendance of the Atrium drinks

Richard Meulkens (Coopra Buis), Marco de Bruyne (VB) and Pieter Ammerlaan (Havecon) were also spotted

Yamilla and Richard Colasanti (Excalibur Plastics), Gill van der Drift (Mountain High) and Gert van Straalen (Flavour Farm)

Richard van de Waart and Paul van Leeuwen, Martin Stolze. Six months ago they launched the new potting machine Stolze 3030 pro. Meanwhile, 7 of them have already been sold. Paul: "The big advantage of this machine is mainly the speed, longer life span and it is a very quiet machine."

Maurice van der Knaap of Dry Hydroponics

Norman van der Gaag of Aweta. Aweta continues to refine automation and tracking & trace for the benefit of external and internal sorting capabilities.

Xander van der Zande (DanDutch) and Geert van der Wel (Blue Radix).

Albert van Dam, Gaston Pauwels (Trintech) and Arjan Pauw (DLI).

In recent months, Erfgoed has seen a particular focus of labor-saving, vebet improving energy-saving measures among growers. Machiel Paans, Cor Bremmer and Francesco de Angelis

Randy van Polanen (Petel), Wim van Wingerden and Herman van der Breggen

Benfried: Rob de Hoogh, Jelle Koop and Dylan van Raay. They get a lot of questions about sustainable solutions in the field of crop protection products and recycling plastics

Edwin Langenberg and Geerd van Geel of DLVge

Arie Meeuwissen, Bert-Jan Nolden and Hans Fakkert of Taks Handling Systems. The Taksi is a powerful induction tractor that helps growers automatically transport crops without the need for labor.

Bart Eekhof of Flier likes to talk about their robotic transplant system. Rockwool plugs are placed on the growing block with this.

Stef van der Linden, John Tijhof (Hortimat) and Rembrandt van Meegen (Biobull).

André van Wageningen and Gonneke Gerkema of Grodan

Rob van den Berg of Weterings. Weterings becomes a new player in the market of electric tractors for horticulture

We bump into Ted van Heijningen in the aisles.

Gerard Vonk (Tan) and Paul van Gils (Lumiforte).

Van Looveren brought along all kinds of glass. The choice was huge

Antonio dos Santos and Jilles Goedknegt of HT Verboom: "HT Verboom is more visible than ever."

Markus Wellmann (PM&P), Damian Schwarzkachel, Alan Wood (FDI) and Fred van Veldhoven (Certhon).

Alweco was celebrating Nico's 45th birthday

Rijk Zwaan showed their wide assortment at Greentech. As a breeder they put themselves well on the Greentech map.

Van der Ende Group was on the stand with many water innovations, including the Kathari ultra filtration system.

Vincent Hoveling, Alice van der Helm, Johan van Erven and Peter Yiannou of Ridder at their Drain Checker. The Ridder DrainChecker offers a solution to the problem of finding the right irrigation balance and monitoring plant water uptake. By providing measurements of substrate saturation rates and the amount of drain water produced, growers can optimize their irrigation strategy and increase crop yields while saving water.

Arjan van der Meer and Tim van Kester of Debets Schalke

Finch Genuit (Mienis Water) and Gert-Jan Doff (Technische Unie)

Bart 't Hoen, Laurent van der Ende and Kevin Spoelder of Hoogendoorn. Their Intelligent Algorithms are a plug in for the IIVO climate computer. With a few settings, you can set the most optimal climate strategy to meet the requirements of the greenhouse, crop and climate. The algorithms take these settings as a starting point to proactively control the climate at the micro level, taking into account expected weather conditions.

Cor Pellikaan travels the world with the Qlipr Pellikaan Crop Clamping System.

Bogaerts Greenhouse Logistics has a striking presence again with the yellow company color.

Jacco de Graaf (Dool France) and Vincent van den Dool (TC van den Dool).

Tom Zwanenburg of Van der Waay is happy to explain the advantages of their machines.

Jan Jakob Mekes, Ziv Gottesfeld and Tiret Dewnarain of HPNow. HPNow manufactures peroxide generators.

Hans Wagner, Erik de Jong and Monique de Jong of Steuler

Rob de Hoogh and Fred van Veldhoven (former colleagues at Benfried)

Wessel van Paasen of Green Simplicity. They will be the innovation department in the field of indoor and vertical farming for light and climate within Green V

Jacco de Vries, Ronald de Vreede and Willemijn Davidson of Houweling Horticulture. Houweling Horticulture has succeeded in developing a liquid coating that is 100% microplastic-free. At GreenTech Amsterdam, Bright Eco-Coating was introduced.

It couldn't be missed... the Logiqs booth. High in the air, the system was on display ...

Sunny Smit of Agrolux / Gavita tells us about Dual Channel: dimmable (red, white, blue) and controllable (far red). It allows you to save energy at the moment you don't need far-red. It was launched recently and is now in full production.

Joshua Gauche, Peter Ollevier, Vitalina Tsurkan, Marta Gentile and Arjan van der Veer of Phormium

The always smiling Fred Deijs and Martin Spekle of Albers Alligator

Berrie Schuurman and Willem Delisse. Marieke was definitely there, but just taking a walk

Bas van der Elst and Nicolle Peetoom in their brand new booth.

Shenzhen FY Lighting manufactures lighting solutions. Pictured are Cherry and Jim.

Shenzhen Longood Intelligent Electric Co., Ltd. Produces end solution for grow lights. Special products are the dual spectra lighting solutions and the latest edition of the lighting controler. The company is a Chinese public company registered on the Shenzhen stock exchange.

Hebei Yuvi Import Export produces nets solutions and also screens to moderate wind and sun. This is the first time in GreenTech. On the photo are Kris. Brand name is Gezi.

WeiHai Xing Hai Lian produces plastic nets and mats for greenhouse and fruit producing purposes, to manage weeds, wind, sun, bugs. On the photo is Jane Ci.

Lite Science produces grow lights for the greenhouse, MMJ and vertical farming industries. For Greenhouse and indoor growing the company has different top light dual and light-single solutions. The Cannabis lamps are very powerful, and are their main market. On the photo is Bruce Xie.

Richful Homewares specialises in garden decorations. On the photo is Yuki Li.

Helping to serve international and local customers with technical support and strategy on the Chinese market, including local technical support, for a complete strategy and service in China. Group Flexibell. Service, or lack of timely service, has been a pain point in China. LianHai Yu, JaiYan Cai, Lili Gu and DaZheng Li.

SunnyPower New Energy produces lights for Cannabis production. On the photo is Maphets Mei, Sales Manager.

Jason Xiao is Vice General Manager at Shinegrow. The company has two factories, one in Xiamen China and one in Vietnam. Their specialism is LED light Systems. Customers come from Europe and USA. Grow Lights is part of the company’s business that also included commercial lights.

This is the first time for Growers Republic to attend GreenTech. The company has a large presence in the States, including on social media. Daniel Liu is responsible for international sales and marketing.

Chogori makes LED connectors. The company is from Shenzhen. On the photo are Yang Bei and Yvonne Liu.

Rachel Zhou runs Schalke Debets China operation.

Planti Team is very excited to be back at GreenTech. On the photo are Michael Lee, Niki Lee and Chris Lee.

NanJing New-High JingWei Electric makes light fixtures. Mostly used in greenhouses, top light application . Flexible configurations are possible. On the photo is Echo Zhu.

Sichuan Zhifang Net Industry produces nets and screens for shading, wind protection and insect protection. On the photo is Sailor Ho.

Shenzhen Guanke Technologies developed the Smart Grow Rack System for vertical farming application. The solution includes moveable lichting and ventilation systems, combining different applications all in one. On the photo are Edward and Ben.

HortiGreen supplies equipments and materials to the Chinese and international markets. Li Jun is on the photo.

Ailux (Hebei) Sci & Tech produces lighting equipment for horti applications. On the photo is Yang Xiao Xia. The company started 12 years ago, the team is very happy to be at GreenTech.

Boman makes energy saving netting products and Window Insect Nets.

Shenzhen Ace Lighting from China produces lighting solutions for greenhouse, indoor farming, Vertical Farming and Mushroom farming. On the photo are Peng LiRong and Hu DaShan.

WestLand makes lichting solutions for greenhouse, indoor farms and cannabis applications. Their lights come with high on the photo is Tony.

ChongQing MaxPower is a producer of different greenhouse tools and accessories for the international market under their Max Power Brand. On the photo is Li Li.

GGPO is a brand of Beijing FengLong that specialises in coated films for insulation in Winter and Cooling in Summer. On the photo are Rex Li and Le Jia.

Pozeen LED produces LED fixtures. The company supplies greenhouse, vertical farming and MMJ industries. On the photo are Zhang YuYi and Yin Wenbo.

PlusRite with Sun ZhiQian. The company produces LED lighting solutions.

StarLighting produces lighting solutions in China. The company is a professional grow lighting manufacture. On the photos are Yang Hui and Jasmine.

LEDEStar's LED lighting has many advantages such as high efficiency, small size, environmental friendliness, diversity of spectrum and great adaptability.

Sosen LED Driver makes LED drivers that are used to produce LED lighting solutions.

LunLux has been for over 17 years in the horticulture industry, partly as manufacturer for brand owners. The company specialises in HID and LED grow lights. On the photo is Sunny Sun.