Machinery upgrades

摘要

Nursery machinery continues to develop to match the needs of the industry. New models tend to be more flexible, more accurate and faster than the ones they replace— witness the Visser transplanter displayed by Royal Brinkman at this year's Four OaksTrade Show held in Cheshire in September.Dutch company Visser has been building horticultural machinery and complete production lines since 1967 and its Pic-O-Mat GR2700 has 24 servo-driven grippers capable of transplanting up to 35,000 plants per hour—how many people would you need for that on a manual line?