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We have

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We believe in constant innovation.

Innovation is the heartbeat of our organisation. Constant ideas.

We believe in quality products.

At Viscon we believe that working with quality products and

We innovate everyday production by combining

materials will make us long term partners. Our

standard products with disruptive innovations.

equipment is reliable and will stand the test of

We like to focus on the entire supply chain,

time. Due to our quality set ups our projects

to identify where we can create added

can easily be expanded. All our projects

value.

are built for intensive use and will keep your productions process constant and reliable over the long run.

We believe in fully designing your production process.

We believe in a long term focus.

At Viscon we aim to know Viscon is a family business and

everything about each market

therefore we are in it for the long

we operate in. In order for us to

run. Already in business since 1967 and

make the best layouts for your specific

therefore a long track record which helps

company. We combine in house produced Viscon automation with specific equipment from our carefully chosen partners, to complete the project. Therefore you will always get the best solution. With Viscon you have access to a one stop shop. Even the central software system will be produced in house at Viscon.

us to provide reliable solutions. We take pride in always finishing well. Whenever there are hickups, we have an excellent service to manage each one of them. We are active in many sectors and all over the world, which helps us to maintain a constant workflow.

Manufacturing facility in the Netherlands

Head office Viscon Group in the Netherlands

Manufacturing facility in Poland

Manufacturing facility in the Netherlands

This is our story The Viscon Group is passionate about creating innovative, solid and smart logistic solutions for all handling processes in Food, non-Food and Agro businesses.

The Viscon DNA consists of asking many questions, learning every day and developing new business in new sectors and markets: constantly generating ideas in every aspect.

One of our main strengths originated in our history: Our focus on several industry sectors. We take ideas from one sector, and bring them into the next.

These constant crossovers bring innovation & inspiration to our people and the people we work with, everywhere we go.

Poultry Diary Retail

Horticulture

Convenience

logistics & warehousing

Fresh produce

2

Factories

200

Colleagues

3

Generations of experience

5,000

Cups of coffee a week

Meat

70+

Countries with Viscon equipment

23,000 m2

Manufacturing facility

Fish Bakeries

Engineering Your Success in

Logistics & Warehousing

www.visconlogistics.eu

When producing a (food) product, at a certain point, this specific product needs to be moved through an organisation, stored in a warehouse, but it also needs to be retained easily once positioned at its location. Either goods need to be sorted or picked from a warehouse for further transport, or they need to be available for an internal process. These processes all need to occur fast, reliable and simple.

Viscon Logistics provides smart and efficient solutions in both large and average sized companies. We can design a cost efficient process for storing products, sorting products and order picking products.

Viscon Logistics can design a solution in an existing warehouse or can design an entirely new company. Our success engineers can consult and provide an optimal logistic flow. We will take care of the total project management from concept to commissioning product lines, so customers can focus on the quality of their products.

Viscon is able to design suitable carriers for every type of product, including crates, boxes, pallets and racks. This opens up opportunities for products or goods that otherwise would be impossible to process automatically. Viscon also provides cleaning technologies to create an extensively clean environment and logistic process.

We welcome our customers to visit our company or one of our projects to get inspired for the next step in the success of their company. In a partnership we dream up the best logistic solutions!

Engineering Your Success in

Logistics Control

www.viscon.eu

Viscon Logistics Control is the one company in the Viscon Group that is 100% about software. A 100% focus on intelligent software designs to connect our equipment to our customers resource planning software.

The Viscon Logistics Control (VLC) software manages material handling processes and communicates with our customers’ daily management.

VLC prioritizes appointed products, ensures traceability and controls warehouses. It can also collect, manage and store the data coming from the material handling processes for re-use or track & trace purposes.

The development and maintenance of Viscon Logistics Control is done by Viscons own team of dedicated professionals, therefore the system can be customized to customers plans and wishes. The VLC software can seamlessly be connected to the customers already existing software, or the software can be operated as a stand-alone system. VLC service is 24/7 available to ensure a continues process with as little downtime as possible.

When using the Viscon Logistics Control system, the maximum will be gained from the Viscon material handling solutions, whereby the capacity, possibilities and flexibility of the systems will significantly increase. This results in an optimal production process.

Engineering Your Success in

Hatchery Automation

www.visconha.eu

Viscon Hatchery Automation specializes in all equipment from egg reception to chick delivery in a hatchery. Since specializing in this process in the late 90’s we rapidly developed to become the biggest producer and specialist in this area of expertise. We have supplied many systems to hatcheries worldwide, from standalone machinery to the world’s largest turnkey projects.

Viscon Hatchery Automation provides the most innovative techniques, very smart & simple layouts and the most hygienic solutions!

Within the hatchery of today an efficient, continuous and hygienic production process is crucial to ensure profitability and product quality. Current production volumes, bio-security, labor and animal welfare regulations make hatchery automation fundamental to achieve this. We develop, produce, install and service reliable hatchery automation. Together with a hygienic and efficient hatchery lay-out we can provide our customers with the right tools for this challenge.

A full range of equipment from egg reception to chick delivery can be supplied, adapted to any brand of incubation system, suitable for broiler, layer and breeder hatcheries. Through continuous innovation we will keep developing new products that will further improve the efficiency and hygiene within the hatchery of tomorrow.

Engineering Your Success in

Poultry Health

www.vinovo.nl

Viscon Group has been aiming to take the lead in innovative techniques in hatchery automation since the end of the last century. This resulted in the establishment of our company ‘Vinovo’. This company provides the latest revolutionary techniques on hatchery automation. Vinovo introduces the Select Line, a product line that revolutionises the process of egg handling in the transfer area of a hatchery. The Select Line consists of three innovative machines: the Vinovo Live Embryo Detection, the Vinovo Select Inject and the Vinovo Select Transfer.

The Vinovo Live Embryo Detection accurately indicates every egg with a living embryo by using a patented heart beat sensor.

The eggs without a living embryo are classified as infertile, early dead, or late dead embryos. Based on this information only the living eggs are selectively handled during vaccination and transfer, leaving the unwanted eggs untouched for further processing in a separate waste room. This creates a more hygienic environment in the transfer area and helps prevent bacterial contamination.

The next step in the Select Line is in-ovo vaccination. The Vinovo Select Inject enhances the accuracy of injection and delivery of the correct vaccine dose in the proper egg compartment by re-positioning only “the living eggs” in perfect perpendicular position under the injection tooling. Also this reduces the risk of damage to eggs & embryos in case eggs would be positioned obliquely in the setter tray.

Directly after injection the Vinovo Select Transfer unit only transfers the selected eggs to the hatcher baskets by use of a patented gripper instead of traditional vacuum naps. This prevents negative-pressure inside the eggs and further reduces the risk of cross contamination.

Vinovo supplies the unique Select Line, which creates a healthier environment, better hygiene and more efficient vaccination results.

Engineering Your Success in

Fresh Produce

www.visconfp.eu

Viscon Fresh Produce specializes in the delicate care of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, potatoes, onions, mushrooms, soft fruit and stone fruit.

Packing areas can be designed by Viscon to process fresh produce with great care and optimal efficiency. Our passion and expertise is to create a high quality premium packed product for the growers customer.

Our team of successful engineers can create simple solutions for the most complex processes through their many years of experience in both smaller projects and the largest projects in the world. Our unique standard product range and our comprehensive knowledge of the sector enables us to create affordable and smart designs.

Within the Fresh Produce industry, accuracy and focus are highly important within the handling process. The Fresh Produce needs to be harvested with care but even more importantly; it needs to be handled with great care during further processes. This is one of the reasons why the handling process needs to be developed and automated as precisely and efficiently as possible. Viscon can supply all of the growers needs with their in-house development and in–house production of both standard and custom-made machinery.

We develop, produce, install and service high quality machinery for harvesting, handling, grading, weighing, warehousing and packing Fresh Produce. Together with our Logistic Control company we can also provide all software, necessary to control the entire process. This software also provides tracking and tracing data and applications to enhance Food Safety worldwide.

Engineering Your Success in

Hydroponic Growing Systems

www.visconhydroponics.eu

Viscon Hydroponics is a sustainable cultivation system where the growth of crops ensures an increase in production capacity and a decrease in production costs. Due to a more efficient use of the available growing space and automation simplification of a part of the labour, the investment in Viscon Hydroponics pays itself back within a few years.

Unique to the Viscon Hydroponics system is the possibility to adjust the crop spacing multiple times during the cultivation without disrupting the growth. The fact that it is possible to increase production by 100% without increasing the production area is partly realized because of this spacing.

Beside the ability to space, crops are growing faster using deep water culture. First because of light reflection and secondly because of the microclimate around the leaves; this microclimate is dry and clean which reduces fungal growth and experiences so far has learned that very little treatment is required. Last but not least, the innovative closed system ensures a constant availability and no losses of water, oxygen and nutrients. With this microclimate and closed growing system, plants can grow, basically ‘on their own’. With this system the grower will have simple control over crops and will only, infrequently, have to monitor/test water and basic climate conditions that will deliver perfect, clean and delicious lettuce.

Engineering Your Success in

Horti Systems

www.visser.eu

Since 1967, Visser Horti Systems has designed and manufactured machines and complete production lines for both large and small horticultural nurseries. By maintaining a continuous dialogue with growers, Visser is able to supply a range of products that are perfectly geared to the needs of the market and effectively meet the most stringent customer requirements. Consequently, as an innovative organization with global operations, Visser is a leading force in the horticultural sector.

Visser is active in production lines for nurseries that specialize in: • Bedding Plants • Young Plants • Tissue Culture • Pot plants • Leafy Vegetable Plants • Cuttings • Fruity Vegetable Plants • Reforestation • Hydroponic Cultures • Schrubs In these sectors Visser provides solutions for seeding, transplanting, replugging, grading, spacing, watering, delivering and packing.

Visser can provide turnkey solutions for any horticultural production process. Our success engineers consult, engineer and manufacture your optimal production process. Together with Visser Supplies (industrial design for product carriers), we can also provide companies with custom solutions for a specific problem, that otherwise could not have been automated. Visser Supplies designs a product carrier that will fit seamlessly with our automation. Together both companies create a concept that can differentiate a product and can ensure competitive advantage through a unique design.

Engineering Your Success in

Multi Layer Growing

www.vivi.nu

ViVi offers a revolutionary method to grow different kinds of plants. Reliable, local, and sustainable by reducing the risks associated with growing plants in a conventional greenhouse.

With the ViVi growing system the future is here. A fully automated system in which anyone can grow young plants, anywhere on the planet, without highly specialized growing knowledge.

The ViVi growing method has captured most of its technology in the innovative semi-closed packagings in which the plants are grown. The ViViPak products are the greenhouses of the future: little tiny fully controlled greenhouses.

The plants in the packagings are grown in a multi-layer system under LED lights in a conditioned growing chamber. Together they make a factory for plants.

Due to the fully controlled environment and the sterile conditions, ViVi is one of the cleanest productions methods available. The separated growing packagings preclude the spreading of disease. Due to the design of the packaging. Additional watering is not necessary during the growing process which reduces risk tremendously. Due to the closed environment a minimum in water and fertilizer is required and no pest control is necessary.

Engineering Your Success in

Conveying Solutions

www.MyConveyor.com

The right conveyor system can improve a line’s efficiency and productivity. In the numerous projects, which we have established worldwide, we have developed an unparalleled experience with any type of conveyor.

The Agro and Food sector has many special requirements regarding conveyors due to hygiene regulations and demanding circumstances.

MyConveyor specializes in these requirements and provides any company with a wide range of conveyors suited for their specific product and industry. Our wide range of standard conveyors can be applied to a specific process and therefore, a fitting cost effective solution can be provided. Our conveyor systems are designed for maximum flexibility and easy integration.

Our ’MyConveyor’ webshop will launch in the near future and will provide customers with the opportunity to assemble and order an optimal conveying solution. Our expert knowledge will be embedded in this application, therefore it will be possible to order conveyors without any intervention, directly online.

Viscon understands the importance of high quality conveyors. Conveyors are the basis of a reliable logistic solution and therefore need to have optimal functionality. MyConveyor has the correct focus to ensure the best quality.

Engineering Your Success in

Industrial Cleaning Systems

www.unifortes.eu

Unifortes specializes in an industrial cleaning technology for Agro and Food production companies. In the areas of Agro and Food, hygiene is extremely important and an excellent result is an absolute requirement. We offer turn-key solutions for handling the entire cleaning and drying process. Our product range varies from stand-alone crate washers to the turn-key delivery of a fully automated washing and handling plant.

Our all-round experience with cleaning technology in material handling projects enables Unifortes to provide her customers with high quality equipment, based on the most efficient and cost effective solutions, using the latest technology from our modern production facilities.

Unifortes offers smart cleaning solutions for every challenge in a production company. Our focus is on efficiency, durability and hygiene while at the same time being user friendly. In order to maintain our strong position in the market, Unifortes will continuously develop and introduce new technologies for the world of Agro and Food, making perfect cleaning possible.

With the Unifortes Test Centre, the bar is set even higher to offer the customer the possibility of performing cleaning and drying trials with their own products to their satisfaction, simulating the level of pollution and capacity during actual production. Unifortes can provide laboratory and testing reports for official documentation to support and underpin investment.

Engineering Your Success in

Supplies

www.vissersupplies.nl

Visser Supplies is a partner in product carriers. Viscon Group specializes in engineering solutions and therefore also partners with customers in search for a perfect product carrier. What crate, punnet, tray, box or pot is ideal for an optimal efficient production process with minimum downtime? What carrier flows through your entire organisation without unnecessary interruptions? A working production line is important, but a match with the product carrier is a challenge that needs to be addressed just as seriously.

Visser supplies can design carriers for products that otherwise would be impossible to process automatically. We can also design carriers that fit special marketing needs to enhance success with a retailer, big box store or client.

With years of experience, the Viscon Group can advise elaborately on ideal packaging or creative marketing solutions.

We invite companies active in agro or food to visit us to inspire each other to new creative solutions. Our combined expertise can create competitive advantage and cutting edge solutions which create enduring success for the partnering company.

Engineering Your Success in

Retail Solutions

www.plantbutler.eu

Viscon Group is active in many Agro & Food projects & companies worldwide. Marketing is gaining importance in the agro business. Viscon Group owns several marketing brands and concepts to further the sales of the beautiful products which are being produced every day. The retail solutions which have been designed help communicate your added value, further improve presentation and draw people in a lifestyle of eating healthy and living a green life.

Viscon aims to provide solutions for the entire supply chain. In our retail solutions company we provide you with ideas to differentiate from your competition and expand your business to new target groups. Packaging, products and retail displays & shops make up our program.

The team behind our lifestyle brand Plantbutler is a young team dreaming of a new wave of green in everyday lives. They dream of a new introduction of plants & vegetables to the young, the old and the restless. Everybody likes a little green, but nobody really knows how to keep it green in this busy day and age. Having plants should be as easy as they are healthy and beautiful!

Engineering Your Success in

Making the world better

www.growpact.com

Visser Horti Systems (part of Viscon Group) has over 50 years of experience with the automation of nurseries worldwide. Visser translated all their knowledge and experience for growers in emerging economies, resulting in a ‘green toolbox’. This green toolbox contains everything a beginning grower needs to start a high quality young plant nursery with smart technology.

Everyone deserves access to an abundant harvest. The increase of the world population, results in an increase of demand for quality food.

We believe that accessibility will create possibilities. GrowPact helps to improve cultivation of young plants in a basic and easy way.

The result: more food with better quality!

The cultivation of young plants is the most important phase of the cultivation process of any plant. If anything goes wrong during this phase, the young plants will constantly encounter problems during the entire process. In the end, this will result in lesser yields.

GrowPact helps to achieve better yields by making proven Dutch technology & knowledge accessible for farmers worldwide. GrowPact delivers all the necessary tools and knowledge you need during the cultivation process of young plants. All the smart technologies that exist in the high-tech machines we produce, are now available in fully manual machines!

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Viscon Group P.O. Box 5103 3295 ZG ‘s-Gravendeel The Netherlands

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+ 31 (0) 78 673 9898

+ 31 (0) 78 673 3434 sales@viscon.eu