Breeder Dümmen Orange has motivate its breeding facilities for potentiometer and garden mums from Fareham ( UK ) to its localisation in De Kwakel ( the Netherlands ) . There , newly install and clime - controlled greenhouse compartments provide static and monitored conditions for conducting trials and ensure higher-ranking bringing up end product .
With this move , Dümmen Orange has centralized its breeding activities for pot and garden Chrysanthemum at one location . This include build up up and maintenance of female parent strain , the development of new varieties and the organization of blossom trials . All activity are conducted in abidance with high-pitched hygienics standards . At the De Kwakel positioning , Dümmen Orange has memory access to a tumid field for extensive outdoor trial so as to assess the garden carrying into action of its garden mummy range of mountains .
Jeroen Meeder , Sales Manager Benelux Annuals & Perennials ( left ) and Hugo Gonzales Dupuy , Breeder Pot and Garden Mum
“ We start this relocation cognitive operation already in 2020 , ” says Paul Maris , Breeding Director at Dümmen Orange . “ base on our prospect of the next needs for pot and garden mum breeding and the idealistic positioning to actualise this , we start enlist the contour of a Modern facility , together with some construction company . For us , the Netherlands was the obvious choice because of the close proximity to the absolute majority of our customers and the engineering and knowledge that are available in our Breeding Technology Centre in De Lier , which we open in 2020 . We physically set about to move our works material from the UK in October of 2021 and our genteelness activity there have cease as of January 1st . Our local stock breeder , Peter Wain , who has done an excellent line , will be succeeded by a new team of ambitious breeders . They will be supported by our R&D workfellow in De Kwakel and De Lier and the greenhouse operational team . Peter remains unite with the breeding program and will visit the variety test when selections involve to be made . We have just celebrated the success of our first Chrysanthemum test for our customer in De Kwakel , which was the first real answer of all the hard work of our squad in the UK and the Netherlands during the preceding transition period . ”
Mike van Os , Product Manager Pot Plants at Dümmen Orange , is also happy with the move . “ It ’s not just the facility . We ’re much closer to our main marketplace now and client have better admission to all developments and products that we have to declare oneself . Here , we have great opportunity for safe mathematical product selections that meet our customer ’ expectation . ”
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