PROFILE: BIO GRO
Grow your horticulture business with Bio Gro By Michael Patten A Brief History Bio Gro is a family-owned business founded by the late Hans Van Schaik and wife Marjan over four decades ago. The business was built on innovation with Hans pioneering the development of pine bark based growing media. He was able to change the long-held perception of using mountain loam in the nursery industry, and after much experimentation, the tide slowly turned to a point now where it is pretty much the only media used in commercially grown crops. Today, the business is led by Managing Director, Stephen Van Schaik and continues to develop and refine the processes that makes our pine bark based growing media the most sought after in Australia.
Our Sites Our principal composting and manufacturing facility is situated in the middle of the pine plantations of Mount Gambier on 110 acres with an operating capacity in excess of 500,000 tonnes
per annum. The site allows us to recover and source material to consistently produce quality products. We have additional operations in Mount Gambier (South Australia) and Dandenong South (Victoria). The Mount Gambier site contains two fully automated packaging plants with a capacity of producing in excess of 8 million bags per annum. Our operation in Dandenong South is a multi-purpose site which acts in part as a custom blend growing media distribution centre. The facility also operates our green organic receival and processing facility.
Why choose Bio Gro? Our long-standing relationships with suppliers around the world as well as locally, helps us to maintain a steady supply chain of controlled-release fertilisers and raw materials to supply the industry during this challenging time.
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Bio Gro produce a quality product
and we can always rely on consistent
supply. We grow a very diverse range
of plants and Bio Gro products suit our tubing and potting needs perfectly.
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Our stock has never looked better.
Raelene
Director/Production Manager Faceys Nursery
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GROUNDSWELL JUNE 2022
