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Inspiring cases & customer stories
The changing world is a huge challenge for global agriculture. Our future health and well-being will largely depend on a successful global transition towards more efficient and sustainable production methods.
At Ridder we love to help farmers and growers achieve this goal. Read the stories of our inspiring customers and special partners here.
Cravo combines nature, automatic protection and climate optimization in one single solution
Cravo is the world’s leading manufacturer of retractable roof greenhouses. In this short video, Cravo’s president Richard Vollebregt shares the purpose and philosophy behind these remarkable greenhouse structures.
Read the full story"Profoundable inventions that can help us achieve our goals for the future"
Ridder is a proud partner of the Pro Manager Mastercourse; a two-week program that provides young horticulture entrepreneurs with the unique opportunity to discuss the future of their greenhouse business with the captains of the Dutch horticulture industry.
On route to year round production in Almeria
The majority of the thousands of hectares with greenhouses in Almeria are in production at the same time of the year.
Brothers Francisco and Sergio Vizcaíno decided it was time to break the cycle and invest in the right technology to enable year round production.
“It’s not about building a greenhouse. It’s about delivering a solution”
Spanish greenhouse manufacturer Asthor operates in a variety of markets, cultures and climates across the world. Their activities in some of the world’s most remote locations, forces them to work with reliable and smart adaptive technology.
"Together you can translate innovation into an effective solution"
In order to supply its customers all year round with high-quality strawberry plants, the Dutch strawberry plant propagator FlevoPlant is expanding its production with greenhouses and tray fields.
Ridder supports the growth of the company with solutions for of climate, water and labor management.
“The future is what I'm going to deal with from now on”
Will your greenhouse operation be controlled by AI in the future, operating the business completely autonomously? Or are you more concerned about the impact that globalization will have on the future of your company?
These, and many other inspiring topics were discussed during the first Jungle Talks Pro Manager Mastercourse Floriculture, co- hosted by Ridder.
Quick and easy compliance with water purification requirements
Since 1 January 2018, Dutch greenhouse horticulture companies have been legally obliged to purify their residual water flows with certified water treatment systems. Paul Moerman of the Dalipa pepper nursery in Bleiswijk sees the importance of this general water purification requirement. “It’s a good thing for the image of the sector, although Dutch vegetable growers are already very environmentally conscious. I think that, certainly in comparison, we grow peppers in the most sustainable way possible.”
Read the full storyVietnam’s surging agro-economy marked by challenging opportunities
As a result of the rapidly-growing middle class and the increasing demand for high-quality, local and safely-produced products, the Vietnamese agriculture and horticulture sector offers an attractive investment climate.
Wage rises and a lack of knowledge however do present challenges. Ridder supports Vietnamese horticulture development with screening and automation solutions.
“Carefree planning with 20 years of valuable crop data”
Dutch tomato grower Sweet Lions grows a large variety of specialty tomatoes on an acreage of 8 hectares. This cultivation is an extensive and labor-intensive crop with a variety of varieties, colors and processing procedures.
Crop and quality manager Jack Jansen from Sweet Lions explains how the grower together with Ridder optimized the production and made processes transparent.
"Partnerships of paramount importance for development of Chinese horticulture"
Population growth is a global question, especially in countries in which densely populated areas and megacities are on the rise. Take China for example; a country where topics like food-security and the availability of fossil fuels are high on the agenda.
Will building Dutch greenhouses simply solve these issues, or is a different approach required?
"The computer totally revolutionized irrigation"
Mexican grower, Agrícola Oliveros, produces high quality specialty grape tomatoes mostly for the US market. It has 10 hectares of poly greenhouses and will soon expand by another five hectares. In 2014 it installed a Ridder HortiMaX CX500 climate control computer to automate the climate and irrigation systems. Owner Ernesto Oliveros says it revolutionized the irrigation system which is now based on the level of solar radiation.
Read the full story"Smart automation facilitates ambitious seed breeding process"
Founded in 2010 by Alois and Sander van Vliet, Axia Seeds, based in the Netherlands, has rapidly evolved into a mature seed-breeding company. According to the latest figures, 10% of Dutch tomatoes are now grown from seeds developed by Axia. Roy Verbeek, in charge of tomato production at two Axia sites, tells us how HortiMaX products - and especially our after-sales service - have made all the difference to their operation.
Read the full story"Ridder Productive motivates staff and ensures fair pay"
With three locations totalling nearly 30ha of greenhouses and around 500 workers, keeping track of everyone’s activities is a job in itself. In 2014 Mexican tomato producer United Farms installed a new version of the Ridder Productive labour and production registration software.
This allows more efficient allocation of labour and ensures workers are correctly paid for the jobs they do.
Southshore Greenhouses increases productivity by more than 30 percent with the help of Ridder Productive.
Nishan Antaal (general manager) and Luis Sanchez (assistant grower) at Southshore Greenhouses, Kingsville Ontario, present their solution to tackle labour quality issues in this video.
Southshore had been searching for ways to increase employee productivity for years, until this forward-thinking operation finally found Ridder Productive.
"Smart adaptive solutions to optimize Chinese solar greenhouses"
The experimental research facility of Wageningen University in The Netherlands were expanded with a genuine Chinese Solar Greenhouse.
The passive Chinese solar greenhouse relies on solar radiation for its heating and it provides a minimally controlled growing environment. With one million hectares, this typical greenhouse is widely applied in China, which gives all reason for serious research on improvements for this low-tech greenhouse system.
"The crop is in
total control"
As an answer to the growing demand of responsibly produced greenhouse grown cucumbers, Vine Fresh acres of Ruthven, Ontario, broke ground on a 12.5 acre greenhouse in August last year.
This 12.5 acre greenhouse currently is producing its first crop with high wire cucumbers that are sold under the Nature Fresh Farms brand. Head grower and operations manager Jake Neufeld of Vine Fresh Acres was so kind to tour us around their brand new operation.
Inspirience Center
At Ridder, the drive to innovate is in our DNA. We are also committed to finding the best possible solution. The balanced combination of these two characteristics has enabled Ridder to evolve into the experienced market leader in technical solutions for the horticulture, intensive livestock and crop storage sectors. Today, Ridder has customers in more than 100 countries, who receive support from international offices and a global partner network.