“Verti-Draining has become a byword in the industry”
explains. “When the Verti-Drain was first unveiled it was one of a kind. It has revolutionised the industry since then,” he states unequivocally. “The Verti-Seed offered similar levels of innovation, because it was a completely new way to overseed greens,” he adds.
The formative years
Originally the family-owned Dutch contractor De Ridder was focusing on treating waterlogged pitches as far back as the late 1970s. The usual method had been to walk across a pitch with a fork. The contractor adapted spade diggers as deep-tine aerators to improve drainage. The De Ridder family and a close associate then had formed Redexim, which means Re(search) De(velopment) Ex(port) Im(port), which Reincke joined in the mid-1980s.
He later led the design team, looking at the original design of the Verti-Drain, which was still an old fashioned, slow machine and, realising that it could be streamlined, made it operate more smoothly. Several models developed from the team work, after refining the
original design to become a medium deep-tining machine.
By 2002 Marinus had decided to face a new challenge. His vision then focused on specialist attachments to use on existing mowers. He left Redexim and started his own company, Maredot to develop these specialist mower tools, but remained the external engineer for Redexim at the same time.
Meanwhile, Redexim preferred to concentrate on what they know - tractor mounted and trail engine-driven machines. Links with Reincke persist. He still works with Redexim on machine design in specialist areas. Like many a defining product, the
Verti-Drain remains in high demand, after all the years. Even after many years in use they are still very attractive as used machines, and can be traded in against a new one. So Reincke keeps his hand in at the
larger end of the market, as well as the smaller applications, which perhaps says a lot for his need for his design flair to be expressed. Marinus is a creative engineer who
believes in putting his money where his mouth is by designing, building and selling machines. What took a greenkeeper two days to do (with the greens closed to play) modern machines allow them to complete in six hours - that’s progress.
Creative minds
Creative minds often require an ‘open field’ in which to conceive so, in some ways, it was no surprise that, after seventeen years of designing machines for larger companies, Marinus felt the time was right to branch out on his own and continue his work under a new and independent guise. “When I decided to set up my own company in 2002, I wanted to follow a similar path to the one I had followed in designing machines like the Verti-Drain and the Verti-Seed” said Mairinus. “But I wanted to stay away from what was already on the market, instead attempting to design machines in a better, more innovative, way. The emphasis was to develop fresh ways of making turfcare easier, better and more efficient.”
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