Salinas, California
November 21, 2008
 On
Friday, November 7th at 11:30 am
INCOTEC US celebrated it’s
40 year anniversary with a party for the seed industry,
customers, employees, and leaders in agriculture. The invitation
only event was held at the company’s location at 1293 Harkins
Road in Salinas. President and General Manager, David
Pickenpaugh highlighted the company’s achievements over the past
40 years. “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:
- 1989
Seed coating operations had grown so much that the company’s
Integrated Coating Technology department became an
independent subsidiary under the name, INCOTEC.
- 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.
- 2005
FLOWER SEED TECHNOLOGY (FST) joined INCOTEC with its
revolutionary SPLASH AND GROW™ melting pellet technology.
- 2006
PROTEIOS, 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.
- 2008
The recent acquisition of SeedGuard including the ThermoSeed
technology from the Swedish cooperative
Lantmännen now allows
INCOTEC to offer new seed disinfection technology for
agronomic and vegetable seeds.
- 2008
After several years of developmental studies INCOTEC has
begun to operate a commercial prototype of its automated
X-ray seed sorting system. This unique technology will be
used to upgrade tomato seed lots to higher standards.
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