What if we told you we have an 82 - year - old claiming Fiberglass greenhouses to be the next fully grown thing in horticulture ? You might doubt us – but it could be wise to think again . The 82 - year old is Mr Piet Bom , who was at the start of the switching from using brand to aluminum gutters in the greenhouse industry . Now he ’s keen on better his own innovation , and believes Fiberglass to be the successor to aluminum . With his company Piet Bom Innovations he is to present the software of the new material at the GreenTech .
It must have been in 1966 when Piet Bom work up his first Venlo greenhouse . In the Westland , where he also founded his company P.L.J. Bom . Not much later , Piet improve the glasshouse model . First with a violent storm - safe roof system , in which the roof bars are connected in a tempest - proof fashion to both the sewer and the ridge section , and then he get up the 8 - meter truss glasshouse that made the Venlo greenhouse desirable for all crops , include ornamentals .
In 1982,one of the most important horticultural initiation was added . At the Dutch Horticultural Trade Fair , he presented the PB Energy Gutter : the prototype of a rotund Al gutter . Until that time , trough were made of galvanized steel , which meant crop with disjoined role was insuperable . The fresh gutter ensures that drain of rain and condensation remain separated and increase the easy output . The patent followed in 1986 and more than 30 years later aluminum gutter are still the measure in the industriousness .
In the meantime , Piet kept on invent . With dozens of innovations for horticulture ( and , to be honest , a few for the golf game industry ) , he is now ready to replace his own trinket . While researching a new material for golf bags , he came across Fiberglass . Being strong and lite , he immediately link it to the horticultural earthly concern , and this year , he is gift Fiberglass as a successor to aluminum at GreenTech - a freshness with which he has been nominate for the Innovation Award .
Piet Bom never left the horticultural industry . The exposure was lease during the Horticontact in Gorinchem , where Piet of course chat Bom Group . Pictured here with Martin van Zeijl .
FiberglassFiberglass is a glass - fiber reinforced charge plate . According to Piet , this means enormous progress , especially in terms of sustainability . " The world of today and the nursery horticulture of the future need more sustainable solutions and , in particular , attention to CO2 . That is possible with Fiberglass as a building material . The CO2 that is released when Fiberglass is produced is almost a fifth of the amount of CO2 secrete when aluminium is develop , which is making a significant part to sustainable stage business practices in the cover crops sphere . "
Piet explain that there are more advantages to it , also during cultivation . “ Fiberglass is stiff and has in high spirits insulation . Growers will also be well-chosen to know that horizontal visibility , such as gutter , ridges and rods , will no longer have what is know as a ‘ caloric bridge ’ , whereby fibreglass prevents stubborn and detrimental contraction from forming . The textile can be supplied in plain white , is field glass - friendly and has a much grim shrinkage and stretching element . ”
All well and good – but rent ’s spill money . Fiberglass is not yet brassy than aluminum or brand . “ It is stable compared to the Leontyne Price of atomic number 13 , which on the global securities industry fluctuates over the years . The peril of an unexpected toll increase short before a fibreglass greenhouse is build has therefore been reduced considerably . ”
The trough
The rooftree
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Future potentialPiet Bom will participate at the GreenTech with his company Piet Bom Innovations . Piet Bom Innovations does n’t manufacture greenhouses itself , but is submit its innovation at GreenTech so as to judge responses from the human race as a whole . There is also good contact with the nursery detergent builder . “ For greenhouse builders , not much is unlike liken to current construction method with aluminum , although there is big potential for development because the possibilities are well-nigh interminable . ”
Piet expects that over time the basic structure of the Venlo greenhouses can be made out of fibreglass as well . “ presently the foundation of the nursery is mainly made out of steel . If this development in the greenhouse construction sphere continue , the entire construction sphere may monish the use of steel and aluminium in parliamentary procedure to reduce greenhouse gaseous state during production . ”
It should be unclouded - at the age of 82 , Piet is ready for the GreenTech and ready to shake up the horticultural existence once again . His years does n’t hold him back . On the contrary : over the years the brainchild came from more and more places and sectors . The inspiration for put on Fiberglass comes from the golf earth . Piet laughs and bring out his secret . “ A intermixture between fiddle golf game in Tenerife with idea and work out the ideas at home . And of course now and again water the geranium ! "
call in Piet Bom Innovations during GreenTech at rack 08.139 .
For more information : Piet Bom InnovationsRené van Winden[email protected ]
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