LVG Plants , the company of the Van Geest family , is the enceinte industrial plant grower in South Africa . The agriculturist has been seeing his business grow in the past years , and so he has been capable to invest in sustainable power supplying , in young building , and , next twelvemonth , in expansion . Soon , 5 hectares will be added , with the assist of Belgian nursery detergent builder Vermako , to get to a 11 hectare greenhouse in the next three years . This enlargement is partly intended for production of plant textile for the pharmaceutical industry .
At the IFTF in Vijfhuizen , the Jacques Maes of Vermako and Geert van Geest of LVG Plant announced the news
On October 9 last year , things were looking otherwise . A crack cocaine - very exceptional , as they usually do not occur here - hit the ship’s company and destroy a large part . Geert van Geest : " All departments were hit , only the part built by Vermako had little damage . We contacted them immediately after the storm , and it was taken care of right aside . Since July we are fully operational again . "
LVG grow a large miscellany of tropic plants , bonsai , and orchids . " In the wintertime , the heat costs a pot of money , and there we seat intemperately in solar accumulator in 2016 . " The landing field , 1 hectare in size and the largest of this type on the southerly hemisphere , has been constructed by Bosman van Zaal , and now heats all greenhouses . The grower is a front moon curser in sustainability , and intends , also in cooperation with Bosman van Zaal , to gift in PV panels , which will offer electrical energy to the troupe .
On the other hired hand , it ’s also important that the grower can by rights ventilate during the summertime . The Poly Ventilation greenhouse from Vermako , which can be open on the left and rightfield of the summit rather than the gutter , creating continuous ventilation , is first-class for this purpose , according to Geert .
In the greenhouses to be work up , according to sales managing director Peter Wicke , top construction ( gutter - crest profiles ) is completely made of aluminium , and the bottom grammatical construction ( poles and trellis ) is galvanized in a heat bathroom , ensure seniority . Furthermore , the construction is built to withstand a heap . " It is retrace to withstand wind instrument speeds up to 125 km / h. Others have to decide whether this is correct , but the events at LVG prove they are not fellate away easily . "
In Africa , Vermako is one of the large participant in hydrofoil greenhouse . Besides their showpiece , the largest rose nursery in the world , of Sher in Ethiopia , they have customer in Kenya , Rwanda , Tanzania , Zimbabwe , and South Africa .
For more info : LVG108 Hekpoort Road / R 563OaktreeKrugersdorp 1739South AfricaT : +27 ( 0 ) 10 591 6858F : +27 ( 0 ) 10 591 6857E:[email protected]http://lvgplant.co.za / contact
VermakoCareelstraat 11 , 8700 TIELT ( zijweg Meulebeeksesteenweg THV nr . 4)BelgiumT : +32 ( 0)51 40 10 44F : +32 ( 0)51 40 77 47E:[email protected]www.vermako.com
