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DUTCH MUSHROOM DAYS Preview Mushroom Days C4C,
stand 56 The C4C-groep will be present again at this year’s edi- tion of the Mushroom Days. Tom van Wijk, director of C4C Holding and CNC Grondstoffen: “Our companies have a leading, international profile for both our raw materials and our conserved mushroom products. We have subsidiaries and sales offices in six countries and export compost and mushroom products to 60 countries. Our excellent quality products, knowledge and expertise make us a highly va- lued business partner all over the world.” Substrate company CNC Grondstoffen continues to focus on cost reductions, internationalisation, professionalism and innovation. Van Wijk: “Operational excellence forms the cornerstone of our corporate philosophy. This means that we engage in a continual process of improving efficiency, quality, hygiene, safety and providing high service levels. In this process we apply the principles of World Class Manu- facturing and Six Sigma.” Exports of compost and casing soil are gaining in impor- tance for CNC Grondstoffen. Van Wijk: “In an international respect there is a good demand for highly quality compost and casing soil. At the same time, the Dutch compost mar- ket is pressured due to the low price of mushrooms. This means that compost sales outside the domestic market will become more important to secure the continuity of CNC Grondstoffen. I am quite proud to say that at the beginning of April 2013 we supplied our first load of compost to a customer in Russia.” CNC Exotic Mushrooms, a subsidiary of CNC Grondstof- fen BV, has been voted the fastest growing company in the Netherlands by the Financieele Dagblad newspaper for four years in succession. The company, managed by Bert Rademakers, is currently working on doubling its produc- tion capacity and the new production facilities are expected to become operational in October 2013. “We are going to concentrate specifically on the production of wood-based substrates which can be used to cultivate exotics including king oyster mushrooms, nameko and pioppino. These varieties are mainly grown in bottles in Asia”, explains Rademakers. “Consumers in Europe are starting to become more familiar with these varieties and value them more. This trend is reflected by the growing market. Exotic mushroom varieties are still mainly imported from Asia, which is not the ideal situation in terms of fresh- ness, quality, food safety and the environment. Increasing the scale of cultivation here in Europe will literally bring exotic mushroom varieties closer to home”, comments the director.
CNC Exotic Mushrooms is the market leader in the Eu- ropean branch for wood and compost based substrates for the cultivation of exotic mushrooms. All the substrates supplied by the company are EKO certified. CNC Exotic Mushrooms is the only company in Europe to work with a bulk sterilisation system which produces wood substrates in an extremely energy efficient and hygienic way. A process that results in substrates of outstanding quality that produce high yields. CNC Exotic Mushrooms supplies to commercial mushroom growers.
Christiaens Group,
stand 43 and 45 One of the latest de- velopments from the Christiaens Group is the mixing drum. This Horst-based company has deve- loped a mixing drum designed to improve the micro mixing pro- cess of the chicken slurry with straw. As well as blending the raw material better, the mixing drum also offers the advantage of being able to correct the structure and achieve a better filling quality as the compost is distribu- ted more evenly on the belt. A dosing unit places the straw/horse manure/compost onto the belt. Before the material enters the mixing drum, chicken slurry and gyp- sum are added and the moisture content is corrected. This blend is mixed in the drum, then distributed homogenously over the belt. The mixing drum has been constructed so it can be positioned to enable the mix to run beneath it. This ensures the compost structure remains intact. The drum is also frequency controlled so the degree to which the mate- rial is handled can be set. Moreover, in the majority of cases this system can be retrofitted into existing Christiaens installations. According to Christiaens this makes the machine the ideal solution to mix at micro level without compro- mising the structure of the blend. You can see the mixing drum on the Christiaens Group stand. The team is happy to explain all the features, and to inform you about all the developments that are on-going at the company, including harvesting and energy projects.
Mixing drum by Christiaens. Italspawn / Hollander Sp
Italspawn’s search for a grainless based spawn started in the 90s when the R&D department started exploring new concepts for an alternative substrate that would break the tight connection with the cereal market. The idea was to develop a blend of several ingredients, which could have re- placed the same or even more nutrients contained inside a rye or a millet grain in order to obtain the same or better growth of the spores when compa- red with regular grain. The project involved a lot of testing of different blends and a careful selection of materials as well as a deep study of the type of environment and nutrients needed by mycelium to develop and grow in the compost. The results were promising, but performance of the new grainless spawn was not up to expectations so the project was put to the side. Recently, due to the increasing cost and ever more difficult availability of cereals on the market, R&D started working again on the same formula and the
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