{"id":304796,"date":"2026-05-28T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tele-radio.com\/weterings-machinery-tele-radio-greenhouse-remote-control\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:27:18","slug":"weterings-machinery-tele-radio-greenhouse-remote-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tele-radio.com\/au\/weterings-machinery-tele-radio-greenhouse-remote-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Weterings Machinery: \u201cIn the greenhouse, Tele Radio stands head and shoulders above the rest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Weterings Machinery: \u201cIn the greenhouse, Tele Radio stands head and shoulders above the rest\u201d<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Look at one of Weterings Machinery\u2019s aerial work platforms from the outside and you will mostly see imposing steel: a tracked undercarriage, a scissor arm that climbs to nearly 9 meters, a platform that pivots hydraulically in every direction. Look at the other side of the machine \u2013 literally in the operator\u2019s hand \u2013 and you\u2019ll find something far smaller: a Tele Radio wireless remote control. \u201cFor us, the remote is really the complete control panel,\u201d says co-owner Fabian Hertogh. \u201cThe only thing left on the machine itself is an emergency control.\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based in the Westland, the heart of the Dutch glasshouse country, Weterings Machinery has a history that reaches back to the middle of the last century. Grandfather Henk Weterings started out as a one-man business in 1940. Today, run by three equal partners \u2013 Fabian Hertogh, his cousin Nick Weterings, and Rob van den Berg \u2013 the company has grown into an international machine builder for horticulture and related industries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The change from the original \u201cWeterings Mechanisatie\u201d to \u201cWeterings Machinery\u201d says a lot about where the company is headed. \u201cWhen people hear \u2018mechanization,\u2019 they picture lawnmowers and chainsaws,\u201d Hertogh explains. \u201cBut alongside being a dealer for several brands, we develop and build our own machines \u2013 from spray rigs and crop shredders to aerial platforms and laser grading blades. And those machines travel the world. Hawaii, Chile, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Japan, China, and right across Europe \u2013 you\u2019ll find them everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top of the class in the greenhouse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The relationship between Weterings Machinery and Tele Radio began more than five years ago, for one very concrete reason: interference. \u201cWe were working with several remote-control suppliers, but in a greenhouse environment we sometimes ran into trouble,\u201d Hertogh says. \u201cA greenhouse is full of steel structures and has a glass roof on top. When an operator is walking between the rows of tomato or pepper crops, the signal has to push through leaves, wires, and sometimes even metal threads woven into plants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe found that Tele Radio\u2019s systems gave us by far the fewest problems. So we switched. In the greenhouse, Tele Radio simply stands head and shoulders above the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUntil we tried Tele Radio, we\u2019d get interference every now and then. In the greenhouse, Tele Radio simply stands head and shoulders above the competition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Fabian Hertogh, co-owner of Weterings Machinery <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not an accessory, but the<\/em> control panel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays, Tele Radio remotes sit on very nearly the whole Weterings fleet \u2013 on the electric reelers, the \u201cWeri Compact Rollers\u201d; on the waste-handling machines, the \u201cBio Hoppers\u201d; on the shredders, the \u201cBio Choppers\u201d; and on the aerial platforms, the \u201cTop-Spins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Top-Spin platform was built for constructing and fitting out greenhouses \u2013 think of installing screen cloth for climate control and blackout, or mounting grow lights. A tracked undercarriage keeps ground pressure low, the upper structure rotates 90 degrees to span the full width between the greenhouse posts, and the scissor arm reaches to around 9 meters. Working height: roughly 11 meters. Lifting capacity on the platform: up to 1,500 kilograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is where the remote lives. Not as an accessory, but as the<\/em> control panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA tremendous amount of control\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything runs through the transmitter,\u201d Hertogh explains as he demonstrates the functions. \u201cStarting and stopping the engine, throttle control, driving forward and backward, raising and lowering, extending and retracting the platforms front and rear, rotating, leveling forward and backward, left and right. There are even two speed settings \u2013 a hare and a snail \u2013 that let you cap not just the top speed but the throw of the joystick as well. It gives the operator a tremendous amount of control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine\u2019s own panel carries only an emergency control; the real work happens with the transmitter in hand. It\u2019s a way of working that hands the operator a big advantage: a clear view. \u201cWhen you\u2019re working at height, you want to see what you\u2019re doing,\u201d Hertogh says. \u201cWhether you\u2019re hanging a screen cloth, mounting a light, or threading the machine between the greenhouse posts \u2013 with the remote in hand you\u2019ll always find yourself wherever you get the best view of the job. That doesn\u2019t just make the work more pleasant; it makes it safer and more accurate. The remote isn\u2019t an extra for us \u2013 it is<\/em> the control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A relationship that grows as needs change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finally, what stands out is how the relationship with Tele Radio has grown right along with the company\u2019s needs. It started with standard transmitters on the smaller applications and grew into fully custom-configured TEQ transmitters<\/a> on the more complex machines. Time and again, the two sides sit down together to work out which functions go where, and how to program them as safely as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a back-and-forth,\u201d Hertogh concludes. \u201cWe tell Tele Radio which functions we need and at what safety level, and they help us find the best solution for it. It has to work that way, because with us every machine is a little different. And at the same time, all those remotes have to do exactly what they\u2019re supposed to \u2013 every time, in every greenhouse, in every corner of the <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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