Anyone call off Gerrit Drankier these days has a proficient probability of him answer with : ' Hola , cómo estás ? ' After all , Gerrit has been living in the southeast of Spain for a year and a half . He has had a firm there for some time . With his emigration , Gerrit took his more than 40 age of experience in horticultural fencing material with him to Spain . He now position that knowledge to expend for Spanish growers . He has a particular screen system to offer up them , about which he and his employer SchermNed are very enthusiastic , namely the ValkPoly+ system .
Jack van der Voort and Gerrit Drankier
Climate screenIn Spain , Gerrit encounters many hydrofoil greenhouses , as is really still often the causa everywhere outside the well - known gamey - technical school glasshouse surface area . As such , it is a immense food market . " Jack wanted someone who could approach that market place on behalf of SchermNed . There is a overnice package available from the Netherlands , including a special driving motor for foil greenhouse . However , you still do n’t add up across many screenland installations in enhancer greenhouses . I , and many Dutch party with me , believe in the possibilities for screens in enhancer greenhouses , judge by the organization that are already available . "
Gerrit begin working for SchermNed in March this yr , " I have actually been convinced all my life of the possibilities that a mood blind offers growers . In the Netherlands , we talk a lot about energy screens , but I like to spill the beans about mood screen . In my opinion , growers should use a blind on the button to create a mood , including in foil nursery . "
Screening out sunlightIn Africa and elsewhere , Gerrit does know of situations where screens are already being used somewhat more frequently in transparency greenhouses . " There , in Kenya and Ethiopia , for example , you have a quite a little of chrysanthemum agriculturalist where a screen is really necessary to make a scant day . Growers there shield out the sharp light to bear on good flower . In Spain , you see it very little for ornamental crop . It is a small more vulgar in vegetables , however . raiser there regularly put in their own screen , but without automatic drives and the like . Not all greenhouses are suitable for this . "
Ease of assemblyA vernal Gerrit started out as an assembly program of screen installation . by and by he became a subcontractor , and today he is have it off in the market as a salesman and advisor of projection screen installations and dirt ball netting . " With my experience , I can quickly see how to get ' something transportable ' in a greenhouse , " he says . He thinks deeply for a bit and recalls a foil greenhouse containing a screen installing in Mallorca back in the recent 1990s . " Yes , the art of have a suitable screen facility into a glasshouse , I understand that well . You used to go on some Fe parts and polyester telegram . With that , you then installed a screen . Today , it ’s a circle easier , and a lot more is technically potential . "
The ValkPoly+ system , with which SchermNed sees opportunities in Spain and elsewhere , makes the installation of a filmdom in a foil glasshouse well-heeled . " The system is very compromising and particularly gentle to set up . Variable clamps and angle bracket aid with that , for example . It ’s all well think out , and that gives an vantage when mount . Meanwhile , qualitatively it is still a very good silver screen system . "
Since foil greenhouses do not have lattice corbel , an alternative break scheme has been guess out with the ValkPoly+ organization . The system also guide into account the low load capability of the end walls in a transparency greenhouse . In the photo from left to right : wire guide occlusion , visibility , and shape profile
wait for qualityGerrit , together with SchermNed , believes that there is still a deal to be gained from screen facility in hydrofoil greenhouses . " you’re able to do a lot more with them than growers often do at present . If growers depend beyond the pungency of light screening , they can make a good return on a screen installation . I am convinced of that . For example , a screen door can also help cool the greenhouse mood more or less and extend the time of year . This give up raiser to grow products of even better quality . "
The experienced covert medical specialist manoeuver out that ten year ago , even in high - tech market place such as the Netherlands and Belgium , there was still a lot of learning involve in using screens . " I can still remember that once , despite the front of a double silver screen in the nursery , a agriculturist was still going to coat the greenhouse deck . Some viewed this in as strange , but he had been smart . The grower forbid nozzle rot with the intervention , compromised somewhat on product , but gained much more on quality . "
ExamplesJust as growers in glass greenhouse can now no longer avoid screens , the same can be done in foil greenhouses . Gerrit wants to apply the instance to say . " you’re able to already see the first foil growers with greenhouse in Spain working with screen systems based on the Dutch model . Sometimes they are also already put in diffuse screen material , with coating on top of that . Other growers will get down to see what this take a leak possible with those growers . "
On gauze , another product they can handle at SchermNed , they are not betting on the foil greenhouse market specifically . " With the mesh organisation they work with here , we now offer little added note value technically with our convection mesh system . " More screens first . " Jack , fortunately , has more solitaire than me , " Gerrit laughs . " All the assembly line have been set . We have a van driving around here and made our name known . Every solar day you get wind . We are busybodied gaining a foothold . We have beautiful organization to offer . I am certain that if you put something good aside in these markets , the agriculturalist see what it impart , and you’re able to also offer good local service , then you have a rightfulness to live , even in this market . "
For more information : Gerrit DrankierSchermNed B.V.Tel . outside : +31 ( 0)6 17 980 388Tel . Spain : +34 695 273 774[email protected]www.schermned.nl
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