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New crop demonstration centre opens in Horst, the Netherlands

Horst, NL – This Friday we celebrated the festive opening of the Sylvan Research International Demonstration Centre (IDC) in Horst, the Netherlands. More than 150 clients and growers attended the event.

Collaboration and open innovation

The IDC facility is a purpose-built fully equipped trial farm which will focus on final stage growing trials for new strains and encourage early stage collaboration with growers. This facility is an integral part of our growth strategy in edible mushrooms and is an excellent example of our dedication to science and service, that will allow our clients to create exceptional value.

“The IDC facility is an open innovation centre, where clients can come to experience our new varieties at a very early stage, and collaborate in optimising cultivation parameters” said Harry Hesen, Head of Sales and Crop Care North Europe. This will allow us to accelerate our time-to-market for new strains and provide our clients with the peace of mind they need when switching to new varieties at large scale.  

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Sylvan delivers excellent quality of spawn and provide great crop care support

Sylvan has been our invaluable partner in sporeless Pleurotus spawn for over a decade. With their exceptional support, we have scaled our Oyster production in Greece to become one of Europe’s largest integrated producers. Sylvan’s top-quality sporeless spawn and their high level of technical assistance have been crucial to our success.

Athanasios Kechagias, Owner Kechagia, Greece

Four generations of strong partnership

Sylvan and Basciani have been doing business together for four generations.  My grandfather, father, brothers and I; and now, our kids are partnering with Sylvan America too. Sylvan’s niche is their knowledge of the industry’s past combined with their innovative ideas for the future.  What I most like about Sylvan, is that their teams and experts care about the relationships. They make our family feel comfortable and we enjoy exchanging ideas with them.  We both share the same goals: to produce quality products and a lot of them.

Michael J. Basciani Sr., CEO and President of the Basciani Group of Companies, USA

Trusting Sylvan for top quality

With Sylvan, I can sleep at night! We are A15 (white strain) and Bavarian (chestnut strain) growers, we wouldn't use anything else, and our customers love our quality!

Nghia Le, Head Grower at Farmers Fresh Mushroom Co, Canada

Sylvan’s red yeast rice: 20 years of quality!

Sylvan’s all natural, organic red yeast rice has been a best seller at GNC for over 20 years.  Sylvan’s quality, reliability and consistency is unsurpassed..

Mark Butera, GNC Vice President Merchandising, USA

Sylvan's way of working and thinking was key to our production success

Sylvan’s R&D centre was instrumental in our early development, and we could rely on their support and quality from day one. The Sylvan Team displayed a “no job is too small or too big” mentality which is a necessary and foundational quality for innovation in a new industry, such as mycelium production in the case of Bosque Foods.

Quentin Loth, Managing Director & Head of Production Bosque Foods, Germany