The future is green , and at Van Iperen International , they ’re also convinced of that fact . That ’s why they are take the dark-green switch . This journey has been running its course for a while , so let ’s check - in to see how thing are move . But what does making the green transposition mean incisively ? And what does it consist of in practice ? Marc van Oers , foundation director at Van Iperen International , assure us more .
Sustainability“By making the green switch , we want to make for our contribution to increasing sustainability of planetary agriculture , both glasshouse horticulture , and open bailiwick . ” The society is combat-ready in fertilizer products and biostimulants for fertigation and foliar program . Their products are used on a wide range of crops , from grapes to Irish potato , melon , pineapple , apple , strawberry , onion , mango , etc .
“ We ’re looking for method acting and products that are chemically identical to the Cartesian product currently used in high - tech agriculture and gardening , but which are less task on the surround when it come to their production . ”
But making the gullible switching intend also searching for new biostimulants , Marc continues . “ We looked for crops that are effective in nutrient and or water enjoyment efficiency . We grow them , extract their actives and apply those to other crop . The effect is increased nutrient or pee use of goods and services efficiency and improved return of the harvest to which the extracts are use ” . The product kitchen stove launched this class is call Plants for flora .
The get together of 2 worldsVan Iperen International has a number of conception projects patronise their green switch journey . Marc explain : “ In the yesteryear , we had the fertilizer sectionalisation starting from low - value products such as commodities and ending by the specialty , which back then were the trace element . Today the ghost elements are also learn as good and are put back by biostimulants . ” Next to that the crop aegis product partitioning has also evolved over the eld , create new segment such as bioprotection . Where the existence of fertilizers and crop protection used to be disjoined worldly concern , now there ’s a merging point between the biostimulants from the world of fertiliser and bioprotection products from the world of craw protection . ”
frame : the meeting of the Nutrition and Crop Protection worlds .
PartnersDevelopment of those new products claim place at Van Iperen International , but also together with better half such as the Italian companionship Landlab , their married person for agronomical R&D. “ In addition , we also have other partners , more often orchestrate companies . Examples are Pure Green Agriculture from the United States and Cinis from Sweden . They ’ve suffer splendid engineer who are capable of developing fresh engineering to acquire known and existing fertilizers in a round and far more sustainable way . They sympathize the technology , and we realise the market . Together we are capable of initiating a bowel movement towards increased sustainability . ”
Van Iperen International by all odds has the necessary market knowledge for that . “ We render to more than 100 countries and have , next to our headquarters in the Netherlands , staff in Australia , Thailand , South Korea , Lebanon , Turkey , Serbia , Hungary , France , USA , and Costa Rica . We serve the local grocery store , and in each of the area we render to , we have our own distributor . ”
Potassium sulphate in SwedenMarc gives details on two case of GreenSwitch ® labor running at Van Iperen International . The first one is with Cinis in Sweden . “ We ’ve been in talk with them for about four years now . They had the musical theme to produce potassium sulphate in a rotatory path . Currently , closely all potassium sulfate worldwide is produced accord to the Mannheim process . That process require temperatures of 600 - 700 degrees Celsius , which name it a highly industrious process . The sulfuric acid that ’s used comes from the unrefined oil industry , and Hydrogen Chloride as a side mathematical product of the Mannheim cognitive operation is a headache for this industry . So there ’s by all odds room for improvement . ”
At Cinis , they came up with a different process : more circular and waste less energy . They work together with several companies in the north of Sweden , including Northvolt , a with child player in the production of car battery . “ During the product of those batteries , a lot of sulfur is bring on , which we can utilize as a residual stream . There ’s also a large paper production industry in the Frederick North of Sweden . A lot of residue is produced by this manufacture presently discharged into the sea . But that residue contains a lot of sulfur , so a method was conceived to remove the sulfur from that residue so that it does n’t terminate up in the sea anymore . ”
The Swedish engineers also invented a method acting to turn S into potassium sulphate at much lower temperatures , around 30 degree Celsius . “ So that ’s rotary and requires a lot less energy which in its turn is green energy . Together with Cinis , we ’ll prepare the market for that . ”
NitrogenA second example : Five class ago , Van Iperen International got in contact with an American company , Pure Green Agriculture . “ That company had the musical theme to employ ammonium from manure to farm nitrate fertilizer . That mode , you may bring forth potassium nitrate or nitric acid from manure . ”
That rationale has its origins in the water treatment industry – Pure Green Agriculture then took that idea and develop it further . “ That ’s why we ’re now able to produce a well-defined solution of potassium nitrate at our plant in Hardenberg in the Netherlands called GreenSwitch ® Original . The alternative , a physical process forge by Haber , Bosch , and Ostwald in the early 20th century , is still the criterion in the market . It requires a lot of energy because it ’s done in a vacuity at high temperatures . In the young process , we strip ammonium from manure at biogas plants and release this into nitrates using green gas . With the new process that we utilise , the CO2 step goes down by 80 pct , and it reduces the cost price of the production of green gas . ”
Another advantage : when farmers apply ammonium ion from manure on their land now , 17 percent of the entire Nitrogen apply is lost as Ammoniac , but there ’s another mode . “ When you turn that Ammonium into Nitrate , which is n’t volatile , and use it in greenhouse horticulture or open field fertigation , that 17 per centum turn into almost 0 percent . That way , we can also bring significantly to combating the nitrogen problem . ”
In the Netherlands , several can industrial plant growers have already begin , like Hoogeveen Plants and Bunnik Plants . “ Also , in plant nurseries and the baseball swing flower industry , we have the first growers who already made the substitution , ” consort to Marc . There is also an increasing interest in vegetable greenhouses , both inside the Netherlands as well as out of doors . Marc also see opportunity for many other growers all over the earthly concern that are aiming to reduce their Carbon Footprint . First dialogue have been initiated in Australia and South Korea . Outside Europe , it ’s also show for organic farming .
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