Codema will be opening the doors to its new office in Beijing , China , in November 2019 . How did Codema develop from a small company , which improved the logistics in horticulture at the end of the nineteen fifties , to a leading instrumentalist which is now designing , developing and furnish all technical expression within glasshouse on a globose scale ?
The first pace in automationIt all start up in 1958 . Having work in their granddad ’s greenhouse for many years , Herman and Huub Wooning founded HAWE in 1958 . They took the first steps towards meliorate the internal logistics in greenhouses with container table .
Codema was the first caller to introduce electro trolleys for internal logistics in the other nineteen seventies and it took until 1975 before the first mobile container system was put into use . There was so much interest in this that Codema decided to also get going supplying outdoors of the nation ’s borders . The first users describe that the mobile container system had resulted in an telling 40 % saving in labour costs .
Takeover after takeoverThe transition from machine builder to project clothes designer , developer and constructor was made in 1980 . It take until 1998 for the company to terminate up in the hands of entrepreneur and visionary Maarten de Jager . He unify the troupe with aluminium manufacturer WEVAB when he took HAWE over from brothers Herman and Huub . The exploitation in digitisation really took off at the beginning of 2000 and the software provider SDG was also take over in 2002 , turn on the company to play a meaningful role in this field of study too . Horticulture continue to modernise and there was a constantly increasing demand for irrigation technology , climate control condition and vitality and lighting from vegetable growers . The company responded to this with the coup d’etat of B - atomic number 99 De Lier in 2011 . The company stay on to grow and opened office in both Belgium and Germany .
All these development resulted in a motive for a vindicated collective identity . The companies were formally merged and given one name in 2016 ; Codema . There was a renewed centering on food , gardening , medicative hemp and indoor cultivation .
International growth ambitionsBy now , Gideon de Jager , Maarten ’s son , had also connect the company . He is now a shareholder and Codema ’s CCO . Marcel Koolen was appoint as Codema ’s General Manager in 2017 and Maarten de Jager sold his part to investment fellowship Nordian Capital the following year . This partnership meant Codema ’s ambitious international development ambition could be speed up .
Local sale and Robert William Service in ChinaThe first milepost of these maturation aspiration is now being celebrated with the chess opening of the Codema office in Beijing , China . The Formosan ( high - tech ) horticultural mart has been experiencing threefold - digit growth for a act of age , which has also ensue in an increased requirement for ( Dutch ) horticultural applied science and automation . An office with local sales and religious service employees will be opened to allow the companionship to move along with the speed of the market and in effect answer to the demand for noesis and effective solutions . The part is a mere 30 minute from the airport and is ring by various embassy and international organisations . The official and festal possible action took take place on 17th November 2019 .
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