Fans provide optimum conditions for award-winning horticulturalists

Fifteen Turbulators manufactured by Hydor, UK specialists in the design, manufacture and supply of fans, controls and systems, are being supplied to award-winning Winchester Growers to help create perfect growing conditions in Lincolnshire.

Six of the 630mm diameter fans manufactured by the UK company, which is based in Downton, Salisbury, have already been supplied to the well known horticulturalists who have won awards at the Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows. Hydor distributors, Crowland based Spinney Rewinds, supplied the initial order which was followed by a further nine Turbulators at the growers principle site in Pinchbeck near Spalding. The fans, which are designed to have a long throw, move air efficiently and give a measure of control of temperature and humidity.

Jack Blower of Winchester Growers says: We are very pleased with the fans and their performance. Our greenhouses are warmed by hot-water pipes and the re-circulating Turbulator fans help eliminate cold or stale pockets of air, creating an even temperature. Most importantly, they help prevent the build-up of moisture on the leaves of our tulips and lilies, which reduces the chance of diseases occurring, and hence ensures first class quality of our seasonal flowers and bulbs.

Winchester Growers Limited is the UKs leading grower of seasonal flowers and bulbs, and packers of other bulb based flowers, bouquets, potted plants and added-value arrangements. Winchester Growers currently produces thirty million stems of tulips and fourteen million stems of lilies. It supplies major UK High Street multiples including Tesco, Sainsbury, Morrisons, and Waitrose.

As a leading supplier of heating and ventilation products with divisions also in Ireland, South Africa and Australia, Hydor manufactures and supplies fans, heater systems and controls to the horticultural, agricultural and other industrial markets. With a wide and comprehensive range of products designed to move large amounts of air efficiently, Hydor has been working closely with horticulturalists in their system design approach for more than 45 years.

Hydor Ltd is part of the 62 million Elta Group, a family of businesses with operations in six countries on four continents which, together with a network of international distributors, provides quality fans and related air movement equipment to customers worldwide.