Corporate Information and Production Facilities

Orchids Dominicana, S.A., "Orchidom", is a Dominican Republic corporation, owned predominantly by U.S. shareholders, which was organized in 1996 to produce mature, high-quality orchids to meet the needs of commercial orchid growers in the United States and elsewhere.

The Company’s headquarters, general offices and laboratory facilities are located at Calle Flor del Sol No 6, Alameda, Santo Domingo. Greenhouse facilities are located between the towns of Pedregal and Salamanca, twenty kilometers north of downtown Santo Domingo. Both facilities can be reached in an hour from Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport.

General Offices and Laboratory

Facilities, Flor del Sol No. 6

Orchidom is currently producing about 70,000 flasks annually in its Alameda laboratory facilities. At any one time, the 6,000 square feet of shelf/bench space set aside for flasks contains approximately 40,000 flasks.

Laboratory, producing

800,000 orchids

per year

Light room: motherflasks,

re-spreads

and re-plates

25,000 final flasks under natural light in

greenhouses

Total available greenhouse space is approximately 500,000 square feet, of steel-frame construction, plastic-covered and protected with shade cloth. The Pedregal greenhouse complex also contains offices for the managers of greenhouse operations and local and export sales, warehouse space, packing and shipping areas, two houses for resident guards and an on-site irrigation system supported by two 50,000 gallon cisterns supplied with almost perfect, mountain-stream water.

Greenhouse facilities near Pedregal, including

property for expansion in the foreground and

beyond the greenhouses in back

Orchidom also operates greenhouse facilities near Constanza, in the village of La Palma, at an elevation of 2,200 feet for out-of-season spike inducement to support the production of in-bloom Phalaenopsis year-round, supported by a new state-of-the-art coolhouse at the greenhouse complex in Pedregal.