The machines Ideaal Machinebouw has been building for ninety year were once green . today , they are orangish . Orange is a better signal colour as a warning on the shop floor , but who knows , it might also add up in ready to hand for the Horst - based machine builder ’s international expanding upon . Just before its second participation in a swop carnival , IPM Essen , novel steps were take in this esteem . At the last trade reasonable participation , the Limburgers also presented a new machine .
About that latest machine , Technical Commercial Manager Koen Lemmen can not yet unwrap too much in former April 2023 . Since 2019 , he and partner Pascal Maes have possess the fellowship , which builds machines to make life wanton for growers . The latest machine should also take another gradation in this , just as other late evolution are already doing . " labor movement is expensive and thus , as a company , we desire to do our minute in automatize labor - intensive processes , " Koen level out .
idealistic on IPM Essen 2024
Ornamental polish and propagation of veg plantsThe full focus these Clarence Day is on machinery for horticulture . With this , Ideaal service two branches , vegetable generation on the one hand and pot works culture in cosmetic horticulture on the other .
The Limburg - ground party ’s machines are design to quickly , efficiently , and ergonomically piece up , move , or spread potted plants . With the advance of sway wool in vegetable works multiplication in the 1980s , this was contribute . Koen sees opportunities to serve companies active in both branch with special machines for both vegetable works and potted plant . Steps have already been taken in this regard in recent days .
New is a special fork for potted plants . " We work promontory - to - question , " says the Technical Commercial Manager . " That means so much that we prepare and develop the motorcar ourselves and also do concluding assembly and service . The product of parts , we outsource that . "
Heart - to - heart spreadWhat is unequalled about the simple machine from Horst , where new premises have been occupied since 2020 , is that multiple pot size can be work with one fork . " Moreover , with our machines we are also able to spread plants lengthwise and widthwise ticker on heart . We do that differently from other providers . "
Ideaal ’s machines are ego - propel , but not ( yet ) self-directed . " Of naturally , we are looking at this , " he tell . At the factory hall in Horst , the fork and forklift are linked together . " This pretend us flexible and independent of the type of forklift . We furnish our own battery pack with the fork , so they can also be coupled to a diesel engine forklift , for example . "
First machine in Mexico
Linking to forklift truckKoen interpret that unremarkably , Ideal ’s self - propelled machine finish up at the larger farms , where they have enough work throughout the year to keep the machine work on . agriculturalist who want the automobile to go at certain time of the yr are more probable to choose to have it link to an exist forklift . " This appropriate them to stay on using the forklift for other work outside the peaks . " Leasing is also possible . For this , the machine manufacturer wreak with De Lage Landen Leasing .
About two - thirds of Ideaal ’s political machine are now for export . Yet Koen still sees growth opportunity , especially internationally . In 2022 , for example , a machine was delivered to Mexico for the first prison term . In the age before the COVID-19 pandemic , the company received many inquiries from the cannabis market . Now that that market place has gone through its big growing spurt , demand has subsided .
However , the market is far from concentrated , while Koen also interpret chance penny-pinching to home . " With a young forking that growers with potted plant can link up to existing forklifts , for example . "
For more information : Koen LemmenIdeaal MachinebouwExpeditiestraat 215961 PX Horst[email protected]www.ideaal.eu
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