Naaldwijk, 22 June 2021 – Henk Verbakel, CEO of Havecon Horticultural Projects and partner in horticultural consortium Atrium Agri has been appointed to the board of the sector association for horticultural technology, AVAG. This announcement was made today, Tuesday 22 June, during the AVAG general meeting of members. Henk Verbakel is succeeding Jeroen Smiemans from Smiemans Projects who fulfilled this role for 4.5 years.
AVAG president Annie van de Riet was recently interviewed by FloraCulture International about the future of the Dutch greenhouse technology sector.
On Monday 26 April, former AVAG president Harm Maters was created Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. Maters received this award on the initiative of the trade association, among others for his exceptional work in horticultural technology in the Netherlands.
Richard Vialle – affiliated with Crux Agribotics and CCO at Kind Technologies was appointed as new board member during the general membership meeting held on 20 April. He takes over the position from Bas Lagerwerf - Berg Hortimotive, who decided to resign from his board position at AVAG in addition to his activities at this company.
Amsterdam, 9 April 2021 - GreenTech Live & Online will be organised as an alternative event in blended format on 28 - 30 September instead of 15 - 17 June. RAI Amsterdam, as organiser, expects that the event will be more feasible after the summer period due to the openness to travel and the vaccination programs. The aim is to organise a high-quality blended event which makes it possible to connect with the global horticulture community both physical and digital.
