About us

With these barges, bulbs where transported to and from the fields and bulb sheds. Carried loads where manure (cow) and flower heads to the waste pit. Working with these barges for decades belonged to the familiar images in the bulb business. The barges of Akerboom were well known but the demand decreased when the truck and tractor where introduced. Forced to change, Akerboom had to find a new way to make a living and enthusiastic pioneerd with ' other industrial products for growers and gardeners '. In the 1930s, the crisis period, this resulted in a 'revolutionary' warm water steriliser, for the treatment of flower bulbs, with for that time a powerful energy source: wood bundles or waste straw.
 

Drive-inn steriliser were developed for cold and hot water, they where implemented with revolving-, sliding- (to the middle) and/or hydraulically lifted doors. Heating changed from  the bottom of the steriliser to a seperate heating unit in the middle. Chemical dipping tanks for baskets, cold disinfecting tanks with tilt mechanism. In the 70's to 80's,  3 sons joined the business : Johan, Peter and Ron. They developed: a sorting- "cascade", export clean washing- and inline disinfecting machines. The export washer and disinfection machines were later developed into fully automatic washing, dipping and packing lines, which can recycle washing water. De-stack and stacking machines completed these lines.

The drive-in sterilizer are further developed to disinfection tank with hydraulic hoist and drying system, which operates fully automatic.

 

 

In 2002, a larger premises in Noordwijkerhout, at the Gieterij, Number 54, was aqquired by Akerboom.
This building has a much wider floor-plan, increasing the usefull space of our workshop and ensuring that certain building fases don't interrupt other fases.
Last of all, this building is also more suited to be able to satisfy the ever increasing demand more larger and more complex machines.