Enkhuizen, The Netherlands and
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
November 10, 2008
Cutting edge technology, whereby
the whole spectrum of the agricultural industry in South Africa
and Sub-Saharan Africa will benefit, is now independently
available in South Africa. The new South African based company
is named: INCOTEC-PROTEIOS South Africa.
This multi-million rand venture, a manufacturing plant and
bio-technology laboratory, is a joint venture between the Dutch
based INCOTEC Group and a South African partner.
Under the brand name INCOTEC, the newly erected company will be
offering all kinds of services to the seed industry like unique
and high quality film coating technologies to enhance all kinds
of seeds.
Next to that the company has set up a brand new bio-tech lab to
offer services under the brand name PROTEIOS to the seed
industry in South Africa and the Sub-Sahara region in the field
of all kinds of DNA and protein analysis.
The C.E.O. of the INCOTEC Group, Mr. JanWillem Breukink,
indicates: “Our company is a green high-tech company offering
all kinds of products and services to the global seed industry.
We are very proud to have expanded our activities to the African
continent and expect to introduce unique technologies there
based on many years of research and know-how”.
The General Manager of INCOTEC-PROTEIOS South Africa, Mr. Hannes
Hatting: “We are excited to start introducing these innovative
products from the INCOTEC Group and see enormous potential for
the technologies of INCOTEC and PROTEIOS that are being used
very successfully on a large scale all over the world.”
INCOTEC, a fully
independent company operating worldwide, is the leading seed
technology company offering all kinds of seed enhancement
technologies, like seed priming, seed coating technology, seed
pelleting, seed disinfection and seed upgrading for vegetable,
agronomic and flower seeds, and has facilities in the
Netherlands, Australia, Japan, China, India, Brazil and the USA.
Proteios, which is part of
the INCOTEC Group, offers services including an extensive range
of DNA and protein analysis, targeting amongst others the seed
industry.
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