Orchidom

 

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 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.

 

 

Phalaenopsis:

150,000 blooming size

Plants available in 2008

 

Phalaenopsis-type Dendrobiums:

170,000 blooming size

plants available in 2008

 

Cattleyas:

30,000 blooming size

plants available in 2008

Small-growing Oncidinae:

20,000 blooming size

plants available in 2008

 

 

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.

 

 Orchids Dominicana is a member of:

The American Chamber of Commerce of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Agro-business Institute (Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana)

 

To contact Orchidom in the Dominican Republic:

Rogert Espaillat (President)

  From the United States:

     (866) 978-0828 toll-free

     (305) 767-1097

  World-wide to Santo Domingo:

     (809) 564-7053

     (809) 560-3168 (fax)

     e-mail: rogertespaillat@orchidom.com

 

Gina Hernandez (Sales Manager)

  From the United States:

     (866) 978-0828 toll-free

     (305) 767-1097

  World-wide to Santo Domingo:

     (809) 417-8880

     (809) 560-3168 (fax)

     e-mail: ginahernandez@orchidom.com

 

To contact Orchidom in the United States:

Nancy K. Mountford (Vice President)

     (410) 971-4577

     (410) 326-4767 (fax)

     e-mail: covelab@chesapeake.net

 

 

William H. Savage (Chairman)

     (703) 683-5625

     (703) 549-8497 (fax)

     e-mail: whsavage@orchidom.com