It ’s a beautiful name , yet it ’s virtually obscure in the horticultural sphere . While the company has been on the market since 2012 , and since 2017 in the Netherlands in Monster , as GS NL . How is this possible ?

" It ’s quite simple , actually " , explicate Marco Brok , Managing Director of GS NL . " Our parts are hidden , as it were , in the fixtures of the lamp , so the agriculturalist does n’t see them . But in the mingy time , many fixtures we provide input for , sometimes under a private label , hang in growers ' greenhouses around the world . "

Marco Brok and colleague Lars van der Voort last gloam on the output locating in Beijing , where an SMD Pick and Place machine was put to use , to meliorate meeting the demand for machine driver .

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Driver control the lampThat donation is in the producing and supplying of equipment driver , which enable HPS and/or conduct products to function under every worldwide usable potential drop and electric power . " You could say it like this , in every LED product there ’s a circuit plug-in , so a driver , to control the lamp " , explicate Marco .

" For an HPS lamp to get going up , for illustration , a high peak potential difference is require , and then the driver has to deal the lamp and give exactly that electric potential with which the lamp provides the demanded electrical power . That is important for maximum return and a long life-time . "

How it startedAs mentioned before , the first steps in the glasshouse gardening were taken in 2012 . A Dutch son of a raiser come across a Taiwanese business organization mate , and they decide to make the combination China - gardening . They started the delivery of small series that were bring forth in Beijing , but now we ’re talking about serious amounts , and Golden Scorpion works with various fixing producers around the universe .

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" The first substantial lighting whirl was , when we begin , going on for about ten year , and at that metre there was a big requirement for quality parts " , remember Marco . " After a go of kindling troupe , we were told what they drop , and we started work on those parts . The main demand was for a static product with quality A character . "

101 patentsThe result ? A 101 patent . " ' Under the skin ' , a spate is happening with electronics . It ’s a very competitive food market , in which you require to protect what ’s unique and what you ’ve developed yourself . “Made in ChinaThe first big orders principally came from across the sea , in North America . " There , we ’ve established a big market percentage , mainly because it was easier to start there . On the American and Canadian market , they are more used to parts from Taiwanese make . Because they are just good , and meet the rigorous Northern American demand , which are often even stricter than here in Europe . In Europe there ’s often still a wrongfully damaging epitome to the stamp ' Made in China ' .

visit tomato raiser Agro Care in the Wieringermeer with the John Roy Major of Beijing .

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' I ’ll take fifty’One count at the site of GS NL reveals that there are quite some certifications in the battlefield of fixtures . GS NL has experience with that . " FCC , ENEC , CSA / UL , DEKRA , these may all be muzzy to the agriculturalist , but we know them by centre . It show that our product meets even the strictest regulations in the subject field of ( fire ) safety , fault sensitivity , final behaviour and sustainability . "

For Marco and his team , in the Netherlands now five multitude in the field of service , logistics , gross sales and finance ( see all the nerve here ) , the design is to pass around the GS NL story . " That ’s getting good , together with our OEM partners with whom we shape in the lighting market place . ' I ’ll take fifty or a hundred ' , may voice negatively charged if a agriculturalist says it , but for us it ’s positive . We can handle the challenge and comparison with our competitor . "

For more information : GS NLwww.gs-nl.com/nl[email   protected ]

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