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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. |
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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. |
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General Offices
and Laboratory
Facilities, Flor del Sol
No. 6 |
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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. |
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Laboratory, producing
800,000 orchids per year |
Light room:
motherflasks,
re-spreads and re-plates
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25,000 final
flasks under natural light in greenhouses
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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
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Orchidom also operates greenhouse
facilities near Constanza, in the village of Las Palmas, 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. |
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Phalaenopsis:
150,000
blooming size
Plants available in 2008 |
Phalaenopsis-type Dendrobiums:
170,000 blooming
size
plants available in 2008 |
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Cattleyas:
30,000
blooming size
plants available in 2008 |
Small-growing Oncidinae:
20,000 blooming
size
plants available in 2008 |
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The Company’s principals are:
William H. Savage -
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Rogert Espaillat - President, Director of Sales, Board Member
Wilson
Rood, Jr. - Vice President, Board Member
Nancy
K. Mountford - Vice President, Board Member
Roger B. Cole - Board Member
Yahaira Peguero - Vice President and Treasurer, Chief
Financial Officer, Board Member
Heidy Santana - Vice President and Secretary, Chief of Production
Erol
Mojica - Vice President, Chief of Plant Selection and Finishing
Gina Hernandez - Sales Manager
Luis Concepcion - Chief Orchid Grower
Irvin
Torres - General Manager of Orchidom Puerto Rico, Inc.
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Orchids
Dominicana is a member of:
The American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican
Republic
The Dominican Agro-business Institute (Junta Agroempresarial
Dominicana)
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