Next year , induction company Montera Techniek will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary . What begin as ' a small team ' has acquire into a companionship that carries out national and international undertaking in piddle , electrical , and climate engineering in the retiring ten years .
Laurens van Es is project and business unit manager at the company from Pijnacker and has experienced it all at close quarters over the past twenty years . He grew up in a greenhouse and from school day , he chop-chop entered facility technology .
Laurens van Es at a outstanding piece of technology in the water technology room at Duijvestijn Tomatoes : a Stephen Crane matrix with 3 rows of cranes that allow each unit to be linked separately to each Grus compartment .
Experience workOne of his first major projection was the new building for Duijvestijn Tomatoes in Pijnacker , The Netherlands . " I walked in the mud for the first novel building for the cultivator there , " he points out when we visited the new building on the other side of Komkommerweg in Pijnacker one afternoon in February . With a prospect of the new installation and the crop in the greenhouse from behind glass , the project manager explains what makes this especial task and his work in general special .
" modify a 25 - year - old installation is not something you do just care that . It is experience body of work . You do n’t just find people who are good at it . Fortunately , we have such knowledge and experience in - theater and still deal to find fresh technical gift . As you see everywhere in the sector , that is not easy . But the fact that our office is snug to TU Delft does help sometimes . " Especially after Montera Techniek joined the group result by Bosman Van Zaal in 2014 , the company uprise significantly . " Without lose our own identity operator , with Dutch shareholder in the grouping , " Laurens points out . " I think that ’s important ! It give peace and stability . "
Meanwhile , the team has about 25 employees for both inside and external sales , sales and service . " With them , we work out entire projects , from drawing to installation . On our revamped website we show that as well . "
Montera Techniek puts its stamp on the installation work , not on individual installing . These are purchased on the foundation of the guest ’s wish .
Duijvestijn Tomatoes opted for automatic bin filling .
" He really engineers along"The instalment company , VCA - certified since 2021 , specializes in the design and drawing of both water and electric installations . The troupe does not have its own R&D , but that does not mean that no development take place . " It is often the case that we intend along with the provider or with the grower on proficient invention . In this projection with Ad van Adrichem , one of the directors at Duijvestijn Tomatoes . He really engineers with us and knows very well what he wants and does n’t want . You take that into report . "
3 irrigation unit , 1 for one block of 5 hectares of the greenhouse , 1 for the other 5 hectares , and 1 compounding between both nursery to have enough content at peak demand in the nursery with 6 Grus compartment each .
On the back of a cigar boxIn the field of drawing , a " considerable professionalization " took place in late years , Laurens explains . " We work on out total projects in 3D and also substantiate everything we do . This also involves much more documentation than before . In the past tense , projects were drawn as if they were on the back of an older cigar loge . But now you see that with new projects everything is properly recorded . With innovative technology , this is oftentimes the font . That helps for now and for later . Now that deadlines are becoming ever tighter , we can prevent bottlenecks ' in the landing field ' in advance , in this path . We already train everything so well in the office that we can work quickly and well on fix . " That documenting is not yet possible everywhere . " Where it once started on a cigar box , you do n’t short start digitizing everything midway through . But where it can be done , you take steps with the grower . "
When recycling weewee , sodium is removed from the drainage weewee ; while other fertilizers persist reusable .
FlexibilityOnce we are in the water technology room at Duijvestijn Tomatoes , Laurens points out an example of such a exploitation , prepared in advance and prepare in consultation with the cultivator : a tap matrix with 3 row of spigot for each irrigation unit 1 . " In this way , each building block can be linked to each private tap compartment . " Within five minutes , the agriculturist can change in guinea pig of an emergency . But apart from that , it gives a mountain of tractableness . " It hire a bit more pipework , but we see that this is increasingly being take , peculiarly for growers with many different variety and growth stages . "
In the water technology elbow room at Duijvestijn Tomatoes . ' One of the most beautiful ' Montera Techniek ever install .
AutomationLaurens calls the body of water engineering science room at the tomato grower " 1 of the most beautiful water engineering science room we have built . Even now that the project has been up and running for over a twelvemonth , it is not yet ' finished ' . " With this form of projection you are never ' finish up ' . There are constantly new innovations . These kinds of innovative agriculturist do n’t tolerate still . " For in the future , the labor manager for this type of technological area sees opportunities for more mechanization , for example . " Already you see this ponder , for example in an robotic bin makeweight that makes the recipes for the A - B bins . " In precept , it hold start the grower a trip-up to this domain on the weekend and therefore project . And that ’s scarce , as well as among raiser .
atomic number 1 hydrogen peroxide is dose and refill at one central stage , so not separately at each irrigation unit . This require a morsel more shoot but saves trips with the pallet motortruck to each individual unit .
Computer gameWe were already concisely discussing 3D drawing . Anyone walking through the water technology way at Duijvestijn Tomatoes will understand why that is necessary . " You do n’t just thread rooms like this freehand , " express joy Laurens . " Our lottery software program , Revit , sometimes look a bit like a computer game . you’re able to take the air through it with a marionette and in this path you have a good overview , also of what the piping look like underground , for example . " Laurens view that horticulture is presently at a turn point . " I consider that we are gradually working more and more with 3D. Internationally , you already see it a lot in turnkey projects . across the nation , it is still rare , precisely because so minuscule is done on a prison guard basis here . But here too , it will finally move in that direction . "
A personal subject matter on the inside of each A - group B tray at Duijvestijn Tomatoes .
For more information : Laurens van EsMontera Techniek015 - 3696042[email protected][email protected]www.montera.nl
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