Bol Peat B.V. has taken over the operational business of Shakti Cocos B.V. With effect from 30 May 2025 , Shakti Cocos transferred the exclusive outside distribution right and the existing customer base to the Dutch trading society . The accord also include the learning of the Shakti Cocos brand and the in demand patent for the buffered coir product Shakti Amla ® including the earmark rights by Bol Peat . In the course of these measures , the product manager and sales representative Jack van Batenburg also moved to Bol Peat .
Bol Peat , a subsidiary of the Klasmann - Deilmann Group , has specialised for X in the world-wide trade in naked as a jaybird textile . The product mathematical group with the highest turnover so far were peat and wood fiber . “ The particularly high - quality coco products from Shakti Cocos further round off our portfolio and will contact great interest from our customers , " says Ted Vollebregt , Managing Director of Bol Peat . “ At the same fourth dimension , Jack van Batenburg will insure that the existing customer basis of Shakti Cocos is comprehensively support and reliably supplied . "
Coir Crush ( 0 – 15 mm ; 0 – 7 mm ; 7 – 15 mm ; 1 – 7 mm ) consists of expectant grades of coir pith from which ok particle have been removed by screening . Coir compaction increases the air capability and drainage of growing medium . depend on the amount of crush in a substrate , the tune capacity can be increased by 10 to 40 vol.-% .
Shakti Cocos distinguishes itself from other suppliers in this raw textile section through timbre feature , certificate according to the renowned RHP standards , tightly organized production with local partner company and the possibility of construct customized answer . “ It was also important for us that Shakti Cocos has been certify according to the internationally recognized SA8000 measure for socially creditworthy jobs in the output adroitness , " says Ted Vollebregt . “ In this way Shakti Cocos supports the sustainable development of our chemical group of companies . "
In gain , the production of Shakti Cocos in India and Sri Lanka is characterized by the fact that all coir product can be track or traced from the receipt of the in the altogether stuff to the delivery to the client . The coir raw materials are stored in sand trap to increase their strong-arm stability and at the same clip prevent contamination . During the subsequent processing , various treatment methods such as washing , buffering and the patented Shakti Amla ® -treatment are used before the finished coco products are laid out on concrete base again for dry . Finally , there are various options available for sorting , mixing and packaging . “ Great importance is seize to environmentally compatible wastewater direction , “ affirms Ted Vollebregt . “ Used water system is purified and recycle in our own coir product or in Department of Agriculture . “
A large part of the husk consist of coir fibres ( 10 – 30 mm ) which are in the main used in products such as mats , brooms , mattress and geo - material . Cutting the fibres appropriate a use in substrates . Coir fibres improve the water transport in the spring up medium . This applies to both , transferral from top to bottom for a better drainage and from bottom to top for a best water capillarity , for example , in ebb and flood systems or on irrigation mat .
The cooking , mixture and packaging of the raw materials is done concord to the specifications of the individual client . For this role , coir pith , coir crush and coir french-fried potatoes are useable among others , which have been strain into dissimilar fraction . to achieve the physical belongings desired by the client , certain coir production are merge in a targeted manner . Common packaging social unit are 5 kg cube , Easyfill bags and Growbags , moreover , customized stoppage are also offered that meet exactly into the cultivation benches of the several horticultural company .
The patented coir product Shakti Amla ® is characterised by a constantly low pH time value and thus offer nurseries a alone additional welfare . The often fluctuating pH scale - values of coir products are stabilize by the Shakti Amla process , thus simplify the covering of the substratum and the subsequent fertilisation of the crops .
Ted Vollebregt
“ The fact that Shakti Cocos and Bol Peat are now working closely together is a neat development for both companionship , “ says Jos van der Gaag , owner of Shakti Cocos . “ Bol Peat has a cosmopolitan reputation for high-pitched - tone raw textile for substrate production . Therefore , our products also fit very well into the mathematical product range of our new pardner . Shakti Cocos can now pore on its own core competencies in yield and comprehensive tone assurance . This partnership is a profits - win situation - also for our customers , who will receive even more targeted accompaniment in the future tense . “
For more entropy : Bol PeatJack van Batenburg+31 - 6 - 54221977[email protected]www.bolpeat.nl
