Montera Techniek celebrated its fiftieth day of remembrance on Saturday . The anniversary was celebrated with a reception for customer and with a barbecue with ( former ) colleagues in the evening . Laurens van Es , task and business enterprise social unit manager , spoke on behalf of the birthday companionship from Pijnacker . The anecdotes , facts and figures below get along from his speech .
Laurens was not even expect when Montera Techniek ( short forMontageelektronischeregelapparatuur ) was found , as he noted at the start of his speech on Saturday . Nevertheless , he managed to flawlessly narrate the company history , but not before anticipate co - founder and guest of honour Louis Wubben forrard .
Henry Laurens in the water engineering room at Duijvestijn Tomatoes last year:“Choosing maximum flexibility in tearing per tap part is something we see more and more often . ( NL ) "
Why does Montera have that name?Montera emerged in 1973 from the former Van Vliet , which later changed its name to HortiMaX , which today is part of the Ridder Group . During these year , Van Vliet not only sold the mood and substrate computers of the metre but also installed them itself .
Laurens delivery
" When these electronic computer began to find their agency into horticultural country and so many had to be installed , too little attention was yield to further developing the computing gadget . In club not to get in the way of that , the decision was made to split off the installing offshoot . What Van Vliet developed and sold , Montera put in . "
Stone woolAt first , for installation , it rotate solely on rain machine , but not much later they became pure instalment . In the tardy 1970s , carbon monoxide gas - father Louis had a role in the rising slope of stone wool in gardening . Together with several growers , university extension workers and technicians , he spend month test grow on rockwool and perfect it . " I am truly lofty that Montera is part of the principles of growing on rockwool which is the planetary standard today . "
Special attention for Louis Wubben
In 1991 , the name of Van Vliet Montera changed to Montera Techniek B.V. Not long after that , in 1992/1993 , grower built well on the Baliade in Pijnacker . For Montera Techniek , this meant a jump in scale . " The troupe size went from 1 to 2 to 3 hectare . We were installing for several raw nurseries at the same prison term for the first clock time . "
RelocationIn 1993 , Montera Techniek moved from Kerkweg to Ambachtsweg . The companionship is still turn up there ( no . 24 ) .
The increase in scale among grower retain . In 2002 , Van Winden built an 11 - hectare greenhouse and Montera Techniek was there for installation work .
2007 was also a exceptional year . In that class , Louis retired on 10 November , after 34 years of firm service .
Sale2010 was a difficult class in what was also a difficult time for gardening . Montera Techniek was up for sales event . Montera ended up continuing with five hoi polloi . Bosman buy the company from Pijnacker . " After that clip , several people returned to the onetime nest , " he order .
Team photo
In 2014 , Bosman became Bosman Van Zaal after merging with Van Zaal . " Through this collaboration , Montera has been capable to hitch a ride on further professionalisation such as the use of modern drawing parcel and machine which have given legions of additional possibilities . "
AbroadUntil 2016 , Montera always operated nationally . In that year , this changed with the first strange job in Germany , Africa and South America , among others .
Finally then a special year , 2020 . In this class , Montera take over the Sercom dealership from VNA , making the company a Sercom dealer in addition to Ridder .
And then there is 2023 . That special class was celebrated on Saturday with now 20 employee ( check into out all the font here ) . " With this group of employees , we are hereafter - proofed and are confident of serve our customers for many days to come . "
For more information : Laurens van EsMontera Techniek[email protected]www.montera.nl
