ETABLISSEMENTS VINET : A Success Story in Loire-Atlantique

ETABLISSEMENTS VINET : A Success Story in Loire-Atlantique

Vinet is a company located in Machecoul in France's Loire-Atlantique region.
The company produces corn salad in nursery beds with a total length of more than a million meters. Vinet has contracted another company, Bonduelle, to transform the produce on the spot for the major distributors.

Currently the corn salad is produced in Nantes-style nursery beds in the open under Nantes-type arches covered with a 50-micron film and shade netting. Vinet has bought greenhouses for 2 hectares (5 acres), including industrial Multichapelle units for one hectare, in order to run production tests in sheltered conditions.
This project must be assessed in terms of its economic and agronomic perspectives. Filclair proposed a Multiclair 250 DPS multispan greenhouse with a 9.60 m wide center span. With this model, sophisticated field-crop production is possible, and its climate control is capable of satisfying the project's economic requirements.
• The size of the proposed greenhouse is suitable for the mechanized equipment used today in the open.
• The five-bed system per central span means that the plant-care treatments can be carried out symmetrically on both sides of the central bed.
o The volume of the greenhouse limits temperature fluctuations, and therefore promotes regular, high-grade development with uniform plant density.
• The pluviometric control can help to reduce the work of tending the beds. The bed will be wider because the earthing-up space has been gained.
• The climate control allows the operator to work in good conditions for production.

The Multiclair 250 Series is a complete product capable of genuine agronomic control, which is why Vinet chose to set up one hectare of DPS units. This experimental installation will be used to validate the agronomic options, as faultless and constant quality is a must when supplying the major distributors.