1991: Founding Walkro
Together with the 3 brothers Walraven, Kees van der Kroon grounded in Belgium in the place Maasmechelen the company Walkro. It starts producing phase II and III compost.
Walkro produces weekly 8.500 tonnes phase III mushroomcompost at 3 locations in Europe: Belgium , Germany and the Netherlands and is one of the largest mushroomcompost producers worldwide. With more than 250 motivated employees we take care of our own raw materials, production and transport to mushroomgrowers all over the world, taking care that we work on:
The best compost for the best grower!
Quality in all levels, from picking-up raw materials, productionprocess until delivery, analysing and into yield-advice, that is Walkro! Optimization in the whole chain, collecting raw materials until the delivery of spawn-runned compost is an every day live for us.
It all starts with the review of the raw materials: horse manure, broiler manure and straw by our own truck-drivers. These raw materials are also judged on quality at our productionfacilities by our employees. Our own certified laboratory analyses visually and by NIR daily all raw materials. Due to the complete automation of our process for 24 hours 7 days a week whole year, our quality ingredients are valorised into excellent mushroomsubstrate. In-between and during delivery again our products are analysed by our laboratory and all parameters of all batches are directly offered tou our mushroomgrowers by mail.
Walkro Transport, responsible for the transport of our mushroomcompost to our clients, has the availability of the most modern trucks and trailers with advanced material on board.
All trucks of Walkro Transport and Walkro Raw Materials. 85 units, are maintained at our own 4 garages.
Together with the 3 brothers Walraven, Kees van der Kroon grounded in Belgium in the place Maasmechelen the company Walkro. It starts producing phase II and III compost.
After different journeys in the whole world, Walkro is constructing a whole new concept for producing phase I. From this moment on Walkro is completely self supplying.
Doubling capacity by the take over of compostproducer Theeuwen in Blitterswijck, The Netherlands and producer Pilzhof in Wallhausen, Germany. Also integration in the chain by buying raw materials suppliers Corsten and Kerkhofs makes Walkro more self supplying.
Construction of extra tunnels in The Netherlands and Belgium, the take over of the tunnelcompanies Nooyen and Horst Compost and the raw materials supplier J. De Kleijn again meant significant growth of Walkro in that years.
After a period of 1 year the construction of new phase I building at Maasmechelen, Belgium was finished in November 2014. With a capacity of 9.000 tonnes phase I weekly it is one of the largest production units for phase I compost worldwide.Tendency for more export with blocks forces Walkro also to invest in extension and modernization of their blocking facilities.