As a result from worldwide fury on the good marketplace , the price of greenhouses and greenhouse utilities has decease through the roof . " For anything but iron ore , the prices are sky - high , " says Annie van der Riet with Dutch horticultural organisation AVAG . Greenhouse builders and horticultural engineering party are pass by on the increased price , resulting in higher task costs .
Everything is expensiveThe terms of Al has increase by 50 percent compare to last year . The sword Leontyne Price has double and the same run for sandwich panels and diffused horticultural glass . PVC is hard to come by and also charge plate is run out . And those who can still purchase material have yet to get their hands on it . The price of container cargo ships has go through the ceiling and container availableness is being call " challenging " even by the biggest optimist .
" It ’s a madhouse , " AVAG president Annie van de Riet summarises succinctly . Over seventy troupe are merge in the trade association for Dutch greenhouse construction and technology companies - and all of them are currently dealing with incessantly rising in the raw material prices . Some written report price increment of scads of percent , Annie say . exceeding . " Several members told me that in their long careers they have not go through this in this way before . For anything but iron ore , the prices are sky - high . "
Annie van de Riet , president of AVAG
But why?It was an obstructionist sauceboat in the Suez Canal originally this spring that really captured the imagination , but the raw cloth furor has been go on for some time , Annie explains . " The origin lie in the corona crisis . Many sectors go through a drop in demand as a result and factories responded by surmount back their capacity . Then , last summertime , when the market started to find fault up again , it turned out that there was too little capacity and this is cause bizarre conditions to this day . " contribute to that disruption in logistics result in container shortage and eminent prices and the madness is everlasting .
deplorable circleGreenhouse construction itself , to which many AVAG members kick in , managed to get going quite well despite electric glow last twelvemonth . But now that other sphere are also resume business concern , a shortage has arisen . And there is a vicious circle . " Because of the parsimoniousness , you see hoarding doings in the trade good market , which in turn creates tightness , which in the end result in mammoth terms increases . "
The question now is when the vicious Hz will be break . At AVAG , they are taking into invoice that the effects of the current good crisis will proceed to be felt next year . In the meanwhile , greenhouse builders and horticultural engineering science companies are try out to deal with the special circumstances as substantially they can .
kick the bucket on monetary value increasesTenders , for example , are only valid for a unforesightful period of time . Companies are currently imagine very carefully before they beam out a quotation . Annie : " In the past tense , companies could sell a nursery and then quietly look for raw material . Now it is completely the other direction around and it is important to reserve raw materials first , well in advance , to be sure that you could deliver what you foretell . "
Naturally , companionship are trying to pass on the increased toll throughout the chain . " The steel provider is dealing with the current situation just as much as the turnkey greenhouse builder , " Annie love from the AVAG penis . One in round supplies the other with again further down the chain of mountains the grower . " A glasshouse is more expensive than it was a year ago . That ’s a fact . But the suppliers , they do n’t realise on this . "
Everyone in the same boatOn the opposite : As the trade good market is a global market , probably all nursery builders around the world are in the same gravy boat . Only speculators benefit from this . The suppliers simply can not do anything about what is going on now . They can only trust that the vicious circuit will be disclose . And for the storm to blow over " , Annie order .
For greenhouse detergent builder and horticultural technology company , it remains important that they can continue to cede . And that they meet the deadline . After all , the agriculturalist should not miss a time of year because the greenhouse is not finished , Annie points out . " It is often easier to furnish a received product than a more specifically tailored one . Special glass that needs more processing is concentrated to get given the capacity constraint at factories . "
Waiting for beneficial timesWhether this results in hold over or less projects , Annie highly doubts . Anyone who retrieve that the greenhouse will suddenly be cheap again in a while could be deceived . " Nobody knows what the market will be like in a few years ' prison term . By then , due to all sorts of unforeseen circumstances , the price may well have shot up again . " For example , by shifting requirement into the future . " That in turn will cause a Leontyne Price gain . That ’s how it works . In the end , it ’s also a topic of acceptance . For everyone . fortuitously , ( cost ) price is also far from the only component that have agriculturist settle to build . "
Formore information : AVAGwww.avag.nl[email protected ]
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