Flevoplant about sustainability and optimization of cultivation and business processes.
Another great article was recently published in Boom in Business. This time, our collaboration with Flevoplant, specialist in the propagation of strawberries, is central. Entrepreneur and cultivation manager Niels Goossen gives readers a look inside his company and looks back at, among other things, the new strategic course and the collaboration with Lensli.
Flevoplant is a family business from Ens, which produces 100 million plants per year on 70 hectares and would like to keep it that way for now.
‘At the moment we are mainly looking for growth in quality gain and in sustainability and optimization of cultivation and business processes. The substrate also plays a role in this.’, says entrepreneur and cultivation manager Niels Goossens.
‘Lensli already supplied substrate to colleagues we know well. Lensli is familiar with the cultivation methods of our plants and has already helped many companies with the transition to sustainable substrate. The choice for Lensli was therefore a logical step.’
The coconut mixture that Flevoplant had and partly still uses works well and does not actually need to be replaced. The aim of the new substrate is to put less pressure on one raw material, in other words a broader composite substrate.
‘For the nut plant mixture, we arrived at a mixture of coconut fibre, Swedish peat and perlite. In the right proportions, this combination has a good water absorption characteristic and controllability on EC’, explains account manager Patrick Winkelman of Lensli. ‘The drainage is therefore perfectly fine.’
Goossens concludes: ‘We are satisfied with the way things are going. I do not rule out the possibility that we will continue to experiment in the coming years in order to make our substrate more sustainable. This is extra challenging for starting material and good partners are needed for that. We will maintain the collaboration with Lensli.’
