HortiContact 2025 bring together 300 exhibitors and 7,542 craft professionals at Evenementenhal Gorinchem on 18 , 19 and 20 February . The swap show organizer shared the visitant figures , which are somewhat lower than in 2024 ( 7812 ) and 2023 ( > 8000 ) .
From innovations and saucy zip program to knowledge sessions , award - win solutions and firsts , HortiContact was a piazza where the Dutch nursery horticulture sphere came together to reckon ahead and take steps towards the future together .
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Three 24-hour interval full of knowledge - sharingThe second version of the National Horti Symposium preceding the fair on 19 February , with 250 visitors led by Dick Veerman , was dedicated to vigour and crop protection . Experts discourse topical subject at the event organized by trade magazine Onder Glas and shared their insight in interactive gap - out academic term .
During the fair , the KasLokaal offered three days of practical shop on heat ticker , evaporation and cybersecurity . These school term , organized by Kas als Energiebron , the design program of the Ministry of Agriculture , Nature and Food Quality ( LNV ) and Glastuinbouw Nederland , provide visitors with essential knowledge on sustainable innovations .
The World Horti Center Pavilion also offered knowledge sessions on refinement systems , energy saving and the influence of sunlight , with visitors able to actively enter in the sessions via a understood disco scheme .
Innovations and firstsThe HortiContact Innovation Award 2025 was presented during the exhibitioner salute receipt , for which visitors vote for their favorite before and during the trade show . OPUSWatch gain with a smart program program for Labor Department registration via a smartwatch . 2d and third stead were for KUBO ’s CO2 - negative greenhouse and AVF+ Young works by Artechno Growsystems .
In addition , two innovation awards were salute on 20 February by Adri Bom - Lemstra , chairwoman of Greenports Netherlands and Julian Starink of the Ministry of Infrastructure & Water Management for water management and water quality : Division Q was awarded for their transparent weewee character measuring , while Delphy ’s QMS Water get an honor for societal innovation .
Also at HortiContact , the first 4.5 MWh Huawei container bombardment in the Benelux was formally presented . This first marks the start of a wide roller - out of muscularity storage systems in the horticultural sphere . The collaboration between Bata Energy Solutions , Wattkraft Benelux and Huawei Digital Power make a solution that stores excess solar energy , reduces peak payload , stabilizes vigour costs and provides a clutches on grid congestion .
untried talent and the future of the sectorOn the second Clarence Day of the fair , Horticulture & Agribusiness student from Inholland Delft got paw - on experience of the sphere through the KAS Working & Learning Tour . During this term of enlistment of exhibitors and innovation , they were acquaint to the latest development and life history chance .
look to the futureBesides pull young talent , the trade fair organizer are also focusing on the further maturation of HortiContact . Lucas van ' t Hof , Head of Cluster Agri , Groen & Horti at Easyfairs , accent the importance of dialog with the sector : " We will be take ample time in the come period to enter into a dialogue with the sphere and progress on the future of the trade bonny together . " HortiContact will rejoin to Evenementenhal Gorinchem on 24 , 25 and 18 May 2025 , and one-half of the exhibitors have already registered .
Our editors were also at the show to make our traditional photo report . snap here for the photo paper . For more information : HortiContactFranklinweg 24207 HZ GorinchemTel : +31 ( 0 ) 523 289 813www.horticontact.nl
