Aalsmeer, 3 October 2011 - Thirteen new products are candidates for this year’s Horti Fair Innovation Award: ten technical innovations and three in the ‘green’ category. They have been nominated by the international jury of experts, which assessed almost one hundred new products and services being launched at the coming Horti Fair. Director Frans-Peter Dechering: ,,These nominations provide a fantastic impression of the wide and innovative nature of international greenhouse horticulture, in just the same way as the Horti Fair is a reflection of this dynamic sector. ”The participants who have won this prestigious annual award for the most promising innovation at the Horti Fair will be announced on Tuesday 1 November, the first day of the trade show in the Amsterdam RAI.

International jury of experts
“20% more innovations have been registered than last year, most of them technical solutions and simple principles with huge prospects, geared towards Cultivation New Style, energy, quality and savings on costs, and less focused on marketing and sales concepts. There is also an increase in the available range of seaweeds, hormones and preparations like Natugro from Koppert Biological Systems, although it is difficult for the jury to establish its proven effect and actual operation,” says Geert van Oosterhout (director LTO Groeiservice), the chairman of the jury. The other members of the international jury of experts are Jeroen van Buren (marketing group manager Pot Plants at DLV Plant BV), Heinrich Dressler (Gb Das Magazin für Zierpflanzenbau, Germany), Cor van de Kaay (vegetable grower), Linda Kaluzny-Pinon (Culture Legumière, France), Frank Kempkes (technical researcher at University and Research Centre Wageningen UR, Greenhouse Horticulture), Leo Marcelis (Professor in Crop Production in low-energy greenhouses at Wageningen UR), Eric Moor (pot plant grower) and Steven Vale (Commercial Greenhouse Grower Magazine, Great Britain).
They decide which two winners in the ‘Technique’ and ‘Green, new plants, cultivars’ categories will receive the trophy and the cheque for € 2,500.00 worth of m2 at the next edition of the Horti Fair… leggi >>