We met Jan van der Sar and Diego Bruijn in Solid Plant Productions ' box in Naaldwijk . The quad is full of plants , pots , and everything needed for the arrangements they put together . From this autumn , they also have an exclusive autumn line with Pottery Direct , with whom they have had a partnership for class .
Diego Bruijn and Jan van der Sar of Solid Plant Productions with Marleen Hemink of Pottery Direct
single line"Pottery Direct has been involved with us from the beginning , " says Jan. " We started small and now we are expanding the collaboration . For this fall , we have developed a customer - specific line together . " Pottery Direct is now a year - bout supplier of ceramic for Solid Plant Productions , and in late yr that collaboration has step up . Diego add together : " Our own descent is a good deterrent example of that . We have been work on this task for a long time because we often have to plan a year ahead . Eventually , we do want to be able-bodied to volunteer our own collections class - troll in collaboration with Pottery Direct . "
Pottery Direct Europe is based in Barneveld , where they have a showroom . Marleen Hemink of Pottery Direct explain , " Our marrow business include developing and spell ceramic flower great deal for ornamental finish . We are an innovative company with a deeply - rooted story in ceramics and clay . We also often have our customers in the showroom , where we then lay out aside an afternoon for a duty tour and a sumptuous lunch . " Diego laughs : " Yes , you always provide that lunch perfectly . " Marleen go on : " We supply potted works growers , exporters , and wholesalers closely linked to the horticultural industriousness . Our ceramics come from Germany , China , and Portugal , but our strength lies mainly in Germany . That is also where Solid Plant Productions works . The ceramics are 100 % waterproof , of mellow quality , and have a short delivery clock time of currently four week . "
mark the barroom is high"The communication with Marleen is also good . If we want a delivery earlier or afterwards , it is ordinarily potential , " Diego says . " We sometimes ask a lot from supplier and are constantly on top of it to drive home the best . Sometimes that ’s not so commodious either , because if you always need to see , sometimes you see too much . " Jan add together , " Indeed , the bar is put high , but quality is paramount for us . The growers we solve with also point out this . We often get compliments from customers that everything calculate sleek . It take up some sweat , but it also bear off in the foresightful run . "
GrowthA year ago , the men go with one production line , now there are three and there could be as many as five by Christmas , they say . " We are lucubrate , which is sometimes exciting , " Jan pronounce . They arrange everything themselves , from grease one’s palms and trade to designing and accounting . " We also take good care of our stave , though , " says Diego . " They are there for us all mean solar day , so we think that ’s only natural . Sometimes we throw a party , on Women ’s daytime we give our stave something nice and , of grade , a Christmas endowment ca n’t be missing either . "
" We are proud of the growth we are experiencing . We do n’t adjust to others but place upright fully behind our product . Bringing new trade to attention is the strong affair there is , you really have to show that you are different , " the men concluded .
Besides work with Pottery Direct , Solid Plant Productions also has its own lines at a ceramics manufacturing plant in Portugal , where they have been self - import for over a yr . A few times a year , they travel back and forth to put together the latest collections . These new appeal , together with Pottery Direct ’s lines , can be found next hebdomad at the Royal Flora Holland Trade Fair in Aalsmeer at Stand E.14 .
For more selective information : Solid Plant ProductionsMiddel Broekweg 292675 KC Naaldwijk , the NetherlandsJan van der Sar : +31 6 50268445Diego Bruijn : +31 6 51988088[email protected]www.solidplantproductions.com
clayware DirectEuropeB.V.Koningsbergenweg 20B3771 NS Barneveld , the NetherlandsTel . : +31 ( 0)854 84 29 00[email protected]www.potterydirect.com
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