Driscolls: 'Looking further than just the packaging'
Christine Hoogenboom, as Innovation Manager at Driscoll's, looks into innovations, and in one sentence you could mention sustainability. With help from Greenhouse Sustainability, they looked carefully at their footprint and it yielded useful insights. “When I started here in 2017, footprinting was not yet a hot topic. Sustainability was. From day one [...]
Pagter launches Carbon Footprint Tool for Procona
Pagter Innovations, producer of sustainable and innovative packaging systems for cut flowers in water, is launching a Carbon Footprint Tool for its Procona container at the International Floriculture Trade Fair (IFTF) in Vijfhuizen. This provides full insight into the environmental impact of this reusable packaging compared to single-use containers. For thirty years, Pagter Innovations has been developing and manufacturing sustainable [...]
Hexagonal pot ensures 20% energy savings at Hazeu Orchids
Thanks to a seemingly childishly simple innovation, Hazeu Orchids has made major gains in several areas. With the so-called hexagonal pot, the cultivation space is utilized more effectively, the transport cart is loaded more efficiently and significantly less energy is consumed as well. Hiply expressed, the ‘footprint’ of the product is significantly reduced, which all in all is more than enough reason [...]
FM Group: “Make every product completely transparent”
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important criterion for good entrepreneurship and will partly determine the right of existence of companies in floriculture. So says Nancy van Kleef, Director Retail & Marketing at FM Group and also responsible for Corporate Social Responsibility within the company. The exporter is therefore committed to being CO2 neutral by 2025. “We are putting [...]
How LCA contributes to Houtwerf's circular mission
You have probably seen or heard about it; there is a lot of pressure on various companies regarding the topic of sustainability from environmental organizations, consumers, retailers and the government. More and more companies and organizations are starting to make plans to meet the sustainability requirements that are expected of them and also partly [...]
VDE Plant: Just do it and don't make it too complicated
Edwin van der Eijk, co-owner VDE Plant, shares approach Five years ago, co-owner Karin van der Eijk of VDE Plant saw a post on social media about calculating the footprint passing by. VDE was then one of the first to apply for a footprint at the then Benefits of Nature Foundation. Karin and Edwin together [...]
Sustainability at Best Fresh: "Do it together"
Sustainability is strongly embedded within Best Fresh: a family of companies specializing in trade and logistics services of fruits and vegetables. Their products contribute to better health, there are 16,000 solar panels on the roof and geothermal heat is used to reduce energy consumption. For more than two years, the focus on sustainability has [...]
Koppert Cress: “We now really know where the most impact is”
When people talk about sustainability in agriculture and horticulture, the name of Koppert Cress quickly comes to mind. The Westland company specializes in cresses: micro-vegetables with a unique taste experience. In 2002, the company was taken over by Rob Baan. He radically changed course. Sustainability and marketing became the spearheads. And [...]