The plant production company Emsflower have extended their establishment in Emsburen with a new glasshouse of 8.5 HA. Emsflower want to combine the cultivation of pot and bedding plants with that of tomatoes and cucumbers. A unique concept, according to Bennie Kuipers of Emsflower. It is the intention to sell the glasshouse vegetables to regional supermarkets.
"In the new glasshouse plants will be grown in the most favourable season for them, as a result of which relatively little energy is required to produce large quantities," Kuipers mentions to Tubantia. "The vegetables will be supplied to regional supermarkets. The glasshouse is heated with residue heat from our own wood burning power station, which supplies green energy to the nursery and two thousand households in the environment of Emsbüren.”
Kuipers started in 2004 with Emsflower, 20 minutes over the German border at Oldenzaal. During the past few years the largest horticultural glasshouse complex in Europe was realised for an amount of 80 million Euro. Apart from the German border town Kuipers also has nurseries in Twente, Berlin and Tanzania. Annually Emsflower supply from 400 to 500 million plants to supermarkets and construction material markets.
Kuipers started in 2004 with Emsflower, 20 minutes over the German border at Oldenzaal. During the past few years the largest horticultural glasshouse complex in Europe was realised for an amount of 80 million Euro. Apart from the German border town Kuipers also has nurseries in Twente, Berlin and Tanzania. Annually Emsflower supply from 400 to 500 million plants to supermarkets and construction material markets.
Next Friday the official opening will take place of ‘Emsland Gemüse’. The investment in the new glasshouse amounts to 17 million Euro.
Source Tubantia