After trailing and experiencing for some time, Mr. Vonk came up with a gel that had the right ingredients in order to receive the flowers in good conditions for selling them in Holland. Trading companies also picked up the concept and started to export the Lathyrus in the gel towards the USA (there is a large market for Lathyrus in the USA). Although difficult to prove, the gel indeed contributed to the growing popularity and exports of Lathyrus to what it is nowadays.

Sometime after the discovery of the gel, producers and exporters of other cut flowers began to show interest in the gel as globalisation and worldwide expansion of flower production was facing some problems. These problems existed of not being able to have fresh material at their final destination, at increasing transport costs with decreasing capacity. These were the main reasons for Mr. Vonk to re-develop the concept and to make it also useful for other types of flowers, to transport them in excellent conditions towards the final destination. The results were that good that it finally resulted in Flower Transport Gel®.

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