WATER
More mushrooms, less water
In the mushroom sector, the name Vullings BV from Horst is mainly associated with watering systems. The company celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015, a fitting occasion to reflect on its history. But
Vullings also wants to anticipate the future. By John Peeters
I Jan Arts:
“The system gives great
results even in
rooms with little space between the beds.”
n 1965, Joos Vullings, father of one of the current owners, John, bought a new lathe for metalworking. He installed the lathe in his workshop on Venloseweg in Horst. On 1 May of the same year, Vullings BV was founded. In the beginning the company rapidly grew and expanded its workforce to meet demand along with the number of lathes. There was a lot of call for metalworking, and Vullings also thanked its growth to a very high level of customer service.
Mushrooms In the 1980s, Horst was home to many companies
manufacturing products for the agricultural industry, and among them Vullings mainly enjoyed a reputation for producing harvesting and grading systems for sweet peppers and tomatoes. In the mid-90s, the fully-automatic watering system for mushrooms was presented. A patent was requested – and granted – for the most important component of this system, the spraying arm. Today, this system has been installed more than 1500 times in a variety of countries all over the world, from Mexico to New-Zealand and from South Africa to Iceland. The product has been revised and renamed the
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