A total of 19 new products have been shortlisted for the Horti Fair Innovation Award 2007 by the international trade jury. Gerda Verburg, the Dutch minister of agriculture, nature and food quality, will present the award on the first day of the International Horti Fair 2007 at Amsterdam RAI, the Netherlands.

The fair, which will run from October 9-11 this year, introduces more than 400 new products and services every year. Attended by 50,000 visitors from more than 100 countries, the International Horti is the most intensively visited trade event for professional horticulture. The range of products from exhibitors also makes the Horti Fair the most complete of horticultural trade fairs worldwide.

Four category winners and the overall winner will be picked out of the 19 finalists by the nine industry specialists that make up the international jury trade. The four categories are trade/services, technology, supplies and production.

The finalists include Bin International BV’s FlowerBagVase, which is a flower bag that also doubles up as a decorative vase, nominated for the trade/service category; Hoogendoorn Automatiserig BV’s stomata monitoring, which provides growers with information about a plants behaviour under different climatological conditions in the greenhouse, shortlisted for the technology category; BVB Substrates’ FMTM concept, which is a made-to-measure fertiliser, nominated for the supplies category; and Hilverda Plant Technology BV’s Dianthus barbatus Green Trick ‘temarisou’ for the production category, which is a flower variety that has a striking shape and excellent vase life.

Other companies shortlisted are: PLJ Bom Group, Grow Technology BV, Logiqs Agro BV, Mobysant, Olij Rozen BV/Tri-O-Gen BV, Priva BV, Wilgengroep BV, Frans Zaal Totaal Techniek, Horticoop ua, Iso Groep Machinebouw BV, Koppert Biologial Systems, Visser International Trade & Engineering BV, Rijnplant, Deroose Plants NV and Plant marketing International Ltd.

The winner will receive a media package compiled by the International Horti Fair and Reed Business, the joint organisers of the competition.

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