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		<title>Blooming Innovations levert witte Ice Age uit Kenia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<p><strong>Vanaf januari levert Blooming Innovations als enige kweker de nieuwe snijhortensia Ice Age. Deze winterwitte snijhortensia, geteeld in Kenia, is uitstekend houdbaar en vertoont geen transportschade. ‘Klanten zijn goed te spreken over de kwaliteit’, zegt eigenaar Harry Rooijakkers van Blooming Innovations.</strong></p>
<p>Ice Age werd in 2016 als mutant van Force, een product uit het tropische veredelingsprogramma van HBA, in de kassen van Blooming Innovations in Gilgil (Kenia) ontdekt. ‘We zijn een paar jaar bezig geweest met uitselecteren en vermeerderen. Ook hebben we meteen proeven gedaan met houdbaarheid en vervoer’, vertelt Rooijakkers.</p>
<h3>Dubbelvouwen</h3>
<p>Uit de testen bleek dat Ice Age goed houdbaar is en een hoge pack rate heeft. Rooijakkers: ‘Om een voorbeeld te geven:  van Ice Cube gaan er 50 stelen in een doos, terwijl van Ice Age 100 stelen in een doos kunnen. Al vouw je Ice Age bij wijze van spreken dubbel, de bloemen beschadigen niet. Als je de stelen na vervoer een dag in de kou op bloemenvoedsel zet, herstelt Ice Age zich helemaal.’</p>
<p>Ice Age wordt in de doos in folie verpakt. Zo wordt verpakkingsschade (bloemetjes die tijdens het vervoer in de doos het karton raken verdrogen vaak) tijdens het vervoer voorkomen.</p>
<p>‘Klanten die we Ice Age hebben laten zien, zijn heel positief’, zegt Rooijakkers. ‘De bloem blijft lang goed, is makkelijk te verwerken en de kwaliteit die wij jaarrond leveren is gewoon even goed, soms zelfs beter dan de witte snijhortensia’s die elders vandaan komen. Groot voordeel van Ice Age ten opzichte van andere getransporteerde hortensia’s is dat Ice Age droog vervoerd kan worden. Dat scheelt gewicht en handelingen.’</p>
<h3>Jaarrond levering</h3>
<p>Vanaf januari produceert Blooming Innovations als enige kweker 5.000 tot 6.000 stelen per week. Ice Age is bij Blooming Innovations jaarrond in productie. Het afgelopen jaar heeft Blooming Innovations daarom veel nieuwe, jonge planten opgezet. Regelmatig zit Rooijakkers in het vliegtuig naar Kenia om het bedrijf, dat hij samen met compagnon Bert Louwerse runt, te bezoeken. Natuurlijk zag hij tijdens zo’n vlucht ook de film Ice Age. ‘Maar ik heb hem nooit helemaal gezien’, moet hij bekennen. ‘Het is een leuke film hoor, maar meestal val ik als de motoren aangaan direct in slaap als ik vlieg.’</p>
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<p><em>Source: <a href="https://www.bpnieuws.nl/article/9178401/blooming-innovations-levert-witte-ice-age-uit-kenia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BP Nieuws</a></em></p>

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		<title>Understanding the flower supply chain is key to improving it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<p><strong>Flowers are Holland’s #1 import product. Most of these flowers travel from farms in Kenya, Ethiopia, Colombia and Ecuador, often transferring in Amsterdam on their way to other destinations in Europe and beyond.</strong></p>
<p>Because understanding how the chain works is key to improving it, the Holland Flower Alliance travelled to Nairobi, Kenya, last month to explore how flowers exactly are being handled from the moment they are plucked, all the way to how they end up on the clock at Royal Floraholland’s auction.</p>
<p>The team met up with growers Bert Louwerse from Blooming Innovations, who specialize in hortensias, delphinium and lymonium, and with Joost Zuurbier from Zuurbier &amp; Co – Bilashaka flowers, who’s farm relies heavily on the export of roses. Both growers showed great passion for their products. The taskforce gained insights in the importance of optimal temperature management throughout the entire journey, the difference between the many varieties of flower boxes used for transportation; of which the most common ones are the ‘Kenian standard’, the ‘Zim’, and the Jumbo box. Boxes vary in many ways and the importance of a good price vs. quality of boxes was stressed, as boxes differ in ways they are made, absorb water, are stacked, etc.</p>
<h3>Kenyan Flower Council</h3>
<p>A visit to the Kenyan Flower Council (KFC), a voluntary association of independent growers and exporters of cut-flowers, taught the Holland Flower Alliance the importance of an internationally recognized quality assurance system for Kenyan flowers, and stressed the importance of creating awareness of how flowers should be handled once they leave Kenya in order to get an A-quality product to arrive as an A-quality product to consumers worldwide.</p>
<h3>Flower handling at the airport</h3>
<p>Continuing the journey to the airport, the taskforce was guided around the forwarder’s facilities of Panalpina and Kuehne + Nagel, where flowers arrive after transport from the farms. With specially adapted docking stations leading to the cool warehouse, the flowers that arrive from the trucks are unexposed to ambient temperatures as they are offloaded from the vehicles and security checked at the entrance of the warehouse. The tour focused amongst other things on phyto inspections, done by KEPHIS (Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services), who order that 10% of each shipment needs to be checked, thus ensuring that the flowers do not contain any injurious pests, diseases or noxious weeds.</p>
<h3>Freighters full of flowers</h3>
<p>The local team at KLM Cargo further enhanced the group’s insights as they got to experience the loading of the aircraft, and showed how just in time delivery of the pallets into an already cooled aircraft ensures that flower pallets do not remain on the tarmac for an unnecessary amount of time.</p>
<h3>The ‘ideal flower box’</h3>
<p>The trip was concluded with a packaging workshop, held at the Dutch embassy in Nairobi. Its theme ‘creating the ideal flower box’, provided the Alliance with insights on the importance of finding a right price vs. quality balance, the necessity to include all players in the chain, as well as to have a thorough look at how growers in South American countries pack their flowers for transport.</p>
<h3>To the clock</h3>
<p>Back in Holland, the taskforce welcomed the MP/KLM flight at Schiphol where the unloading of the aircraft, and handling of the flowers at the airport was tightly followed. A tour around the facilities of Royal Floraholland completed the taskforce’s flower logistics chain adventure, as Jaap Buis from Fresco Flowers showed, and explained to the group how they check, pack and supply their flowers.</p>
<p>For more information on the Holland Flower Alliance, please contact project manager Eline van den Berg at <a href="mailto:elinevandenberg@royalfloraholland.com">elinevandenberg@royalfloraholland.com</a></p>
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<p><em>Source: <a href="https://www.schiphol.nl/en/cargo/page/understanding-the-flower-supply-chain-is-key-to-improving-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Schiphol Cargo</a></em></p>

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