Since 2017 , the Leaf Carrier from Bever Innovations is in yield . The idea for the growing cart with igniter start after striking between tissue grower John Bijl with Vitro Plus and Jacco de Ronde ( from the lighting manufacturer ) in … the gym . Bever Innovations was , up until then , a rather unknown company in gardening , but together with the raiser they developed a very hardheaded concept that growers around the world now expend .
Grower John , growing about 30 million fern cuttings a yr , had a inflammation question . He want to take a step in quality in the nursery proces , by doing more and well with lighting . light-emitting diode seemed to be great , but that also generate passion and that estrus , when you ’re stacking growth layers , often gets too airless to the plant .
Stephan hideout Boer is a sale man for Bever Innovations Horticulture
Simpel , but unequaled tooAn innovative technique resolve this problem , Stephan lair Boer , gross revenue serviceman for Bever Innovations Horticultureknowssince 2019 . " Bever Innovations has always been good at the growth and production of LED display in cost sign , like at gasstations . Around the world you’re able to find our intersection at major oil companies like Shell , BP and Q8 .
Together with John we started modernise a ware that was n’t around in horticulture . We lend oneself a proficiency that is on the one hired hand , simple , but on the other hand unique , creating uniform Inner Light above the flora , in the whole growing stratum . This is made possible by a abstemious transmission plate we specially designed , where the LED are only on the side of the plate . "
The layers are 9 millimeter compact . The loose send plate is integrate in the Leaf Carrier ’s systema skeletale .
Uniform lightThe lamp are integrate in the face of the plate . Only there a minimal amount of heating departure . But all the plants get adequate light . " The light of the light-emitting diode lamp at the side of the stratum is reflected by the optical maser dot in the scale . This guarantee that the illumination is n’t cat’s-paw - shaped like a normal lamp , but it is wholly unvarying . "
That ensure a very uniform product . " With a instrument - shaped light , you get overlap of spark and not all plant receive as much . With our technique the light is even , and so is the stratum ’s production . It ’s no rocket science , but it is a technique where the net really show , for the agriculturist as well . "
Bever Innovations has a patent pending on the optimalisation of light via side - reflection .
greenhouse testingGrowers are getting more and more acquainted with the proficiency . " There ’s interest from all side . Many nurseries are test the Leaf Carrier . We stimulate that , so they can work out for themselves if it helps them as much as it does for Vitro Plus . Thanks to the carts , they ’ve even been able-bodied to add a unexampled process : sowing fern spores .
Next to cultivator of all sort of flora material , test have also been done with clams , Stephan explains . " There , the bed of the Leaf Carrier are fill up with 1 liter of water supply and full heads of simoleons come up from the pushcart , which had used very short piddle . Water is very expensive in some countries . Think about Qatar , where H2O costs as much as gas . With our handcart , growers could grow very efficiently there . "
Looking beyond the cartThe technique is now set up on a cart , but it can be applied loose as well . They ’ve been doing that in Japan , Stephan enjoin . " One customer over there is equipping his lettuce production with loose mature bed using the special light source technique that we apply in the pushcart as well . "
That the customers around the world are essay to utilize the technique in their own unique situations , is nifty , they think at Bever Innovations . " It shows that our foundation function in practice . "
In Zierikzee ( the Netherlands ) , where the headquarters are , work is n’t turn back either . " The Leaf Carrier is now ideal as a simple mode to get in , so it ’s applicable everywhere . We ’re working on a waterproofed cart , too . We ’re also look at the software of multiple spectra . We ’ve now made the choice for one spectrum . For many of our potential customers , that works . For now , if they need all colours in one lamp , the uniformity of the light is compromised . "
For more information : Bever Innovationswww.horticulture.beverinnovations.com[email protected ]
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