Salinas, California
November 4, 2008
 Friday,
November 7th at 11:30 am
INCOTEC will celebrate its 40 year anniversary with a party
for the seed industry, customers, employees and leaders in
agriculture. The invitation only event will be held at the
company’s headquarters at 1293 Harkins Road in Salinas.
President and General Manager, David Pickenpaugh will highlight
the company’s achievements as he welcomes guests.
“We are extremely proud of the milestones in the growth of
INCOTEC. The company continues to demonstrate its worth to world
agriculture and is ready to apply all of its knowledge,
experience and legendary zeal to continuing progress in
agriculture, particularly during these challenging times,”
states Pickenpaugh.
History
Forty years ago, the
techniques for adding value to seeds used in large-scale
commercial agriculture and floriculture by coating and
pelleting were in their infancy. It was then that the Dutch
company, Royal Sluis, one of the world’s leading vegetable
seed companies, began to offer custom coating of vegetable
and flower seeds to its customers. From that small operation
with two products to offer, INCOTEC has become the world’s
leader in seed and coating technology. INCOTEC’s products
and services benefit seed companies, propagators and growers
through cutting-edge research, technical innovation, quality
control and a consistently high level of customer service.
INCOTEC now offers some 800 products to the industry.
Incotec has grown from a company active primarily in North
American and Europe to a world-wide organization with
offices in Japan, Brazil, India, Australia, China and South
Africa. In the beginning there were 60 members in the
department at Royal Sluis, there are now over 260 people.
Key milestones
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1989 |
Seed
coating operations had grown so much that the company’s
Integrated Coating
Technology department became an independent subsidiary
under the name, INCOTEC. |
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1996 |
The seed
technology departments of Royal Sluis, Peto, and Asgrow,
merged to
become today’s INCOTEC.
As INCOTEC has grown, it has gained additional technical
capability by acquiring related
companies and technology rights. |
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2005 |
FLOWER
SEED TECHNOLOGY (FST) joined INCOTEC with its
revolutionary
SPLASH AND GROW™ melting pellet technology. |
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2006 |
PROTEOIS,
formerly an independent service company within the Royal
Sluis
Group, added to INCOTEC’s arsenal its 15 years’
experience in development and
application of genetic marker technology for assessing
the purity of genetic materials in
seed breeding programs. |
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2008 |
The
recent acquisition of SeedGuard technology from the
Swedish cooperative
Lantmännen now allows INCOTEC to offer new seed
disinfection technology for
agronomic and vegetable seeds. |
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2008 |
After
several years of developmental studies INCOTEC has begun
to operate a
commercial prototype of its automated X-ray seed sorting
system. The technology will
not only be used to upgrade low quality seed lots to
market-acceptable seed lots, but also
to introduce a completely new standard in the market as
a kind of Super Seed. |
INCOTEC is active in the field of seed and coating technology
and has a leading position in adding value to seed and other
starting materials through all kinds of enhancements such as
coating, priming, disinfection, seed selection and the
application of additives, including the sales of film coat
liquids.
PROTEIOS is active in providing all kinds of services and
products in the field of genetic testing and marker technology.
Both companies have activities in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain,
USA, Brazil, Japan, India, China, Australia and South Africa. |
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