Van Winden Tomato Growers

Van Winden is a family owned business who export tomatoes all over Europe. They run two glass houses with a total of 11 hectares of glass, within these they grow two different varieties.
They pick roughly 550kg of tomatoes every hour and harvest once a week. Whilst we were there they were harvesting and packing for supermarkets in Spain.

Their market is 80% supermarkets around Europe. It takes roughly (depending on location) 2.5 days from picking to reach the shelves.

0.5-1% of tomatoes are thrown out because of defects. During winter they collect rain water and store it in tanks to use in summer.