Amycel, stand 27
Amycel will be happy to welcome you at the 2016 Mushroom Days in Den Bosch, to inform you about the latest develop- ments in spawn breeding and spawn production. One of them is Onyxx.
“Onyxx, using a different spawn carrier than grain, is very promising”, according to Hubert Hay, director of Amycel Europe. “Compost incubated with this new type of spawn will colonize much quicker. This means significant time gain during phase 3. A well colonized compost is stronger and more resistant to infections, and will perform better.” Onyxx has been used successfully by mushrooms farms for years now. The spawn plant in Vendôme France was recently expanded with a third production line and is now fully equipped to produce Onyxx. The production of Onyxx for the European spawn market has started already. Onyxx is availa- ble in combination with all Amycel strains such as our well known strains TripleX, Phoenixx and Heirloom.
Worthwhile investments
Onyxx was developed at Biotech, an affiliate to spawn produ- cer Amycel and Monterey Mushrooms in Watsonville Califor- nia. Since the 80’s Biotech has been working on improvement of the spawn production process, Spawn Mate supplements, and above all, strain breeding. Breeding research is time consuming and needs years of testing. Hay: “It starts with numerous crossings in the lab. And then seemingly endless screening. First on lab scale and secondly in our small test facilities to end up in test on our own commercial mushroom farms. This all makes strain breeding a very costly invest- ment. So it is obvious that Amycel protects its new strains with patents. We believe the investments in development will be worthwhile not only for ourselves but for the mushroom industry worldwide. We can mention here the successful Amycel strains Heirloom and Brawn. The worldwide standard on chestnut mushrooms and Portabella.” If you want to know more about the company, take a look at their new website:
www.amycel.eu
Researchers at Biotech in Watsonville, California.
Race tubes showing the speed of mycelium growth in compost.
Christiaens Group, stand 55
Christiaens Group from Horst, The Netherlands, is a global leader in setting up turnkey solutions for mushroom farms and com- posting yards. The company started in 1971 and expanded ever since, supplying the world with (turnkey) solutions completely engineered and produced in house.
According to sales manager Roland van Doremaele, the company keeps innovating all the time: “Our most potential development is a new harvesting concept. Besides compost, the costprice for harvesting is in most cases the biggest one. So logically costs savings can be done the easiest in this field. With our new concept we took all the best and proven principles available and combined this in one system. Like filling with a head filler, cooling in the shelves, air distribution, harvesting on a single layer. All with the potention to easy implement automatisation and eventually make use of harvesting robots.”
Some other new products are a casing seperator and a casing line. Find out more about the company on their website
www.christiaens-
group.com, in a recent article in our magazine (Mushroom Business 66) and, ofcourse, in their big booth at the fair. Christiaens is a Gold Sponsor of ISMS 2016 in Amsterdam.
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