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Every cutting process requires the right unprocessed product. And no one understands that better than we do. That is why, at growers' cooperative Harvest House, we are the specialists in regard to supplying unprocessed vegetables to processors.

Since early May, Jesse van Paassen joined us as account manager. He is 27 years of age and a born and raised ´Westlander´. After a period in the world of substrates and earlier in waste recycling, he has now consciously chosen a new step at Snijpunt. 

In October, Paul Endhoven joined us as senior account manager. Paul is 46 years of age and was born and raised in Westland. He is married and has two children.
After working outside Westland for a while, Paul was looking for a new challenge, closer to home, back in Westland and closer to the source. After several meetings, he wholeheartedly chose Snijpunt.

Innovation and development are always on our mind. As you have come to expect from us, we are constantly looking for new possibilities and the best-fit options for our customers. Halving and cleaning cucumbers is normally done manually. A labour-intensive process for everyone. In our opinion, this can be done differently.

Following a lapse of research and inventory, we found a way to halve and clean cucumbers by machine from now on.

From the 3^rd to the 5^th of October, our sales team attended Fruit Attraction in Madrid together with Harvest House and sister companies Rainbow, Global Green Team and TNI. It was the first time for us at this fair, but as we look at it now, it will certainly not be the last.

On the 3^rd of July, 2023, we celebrated our 25th anniversary with a fantastic party at the Oude Kerk in Naaldwijk. As we care about sharing success and contributing to a better society, we have linked charities to our anniversary year.

Join us in watching the aftermovie of our anniversaryparty and reliving this great evening. We would like to thank everybody for being there and making this night the party we hoped for!

We care about sharing success and contributing to a better society. Particularly in the year that marks our 25th anniversary. For this occasion, we are looking across the border, to those countries where a part of our employees is coming from.

"Never change your goal, only the way to get there." - In this special anniversary year, we are happy to let one of the founders of Snijpunt have his say; Marco Romein. Together with Marco we look back to the early days of Snijpunt and to the period prior to the official founding date on June 1, 1998.

Snijpunt celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. On the 1st of June 1998, Marco Romein and Karel Vromans created the foundation for the company we are today, a specialist in producing fresh prepared cut vegetables. Being proud of this magnificent anniversary, the entire year 2023 is a celebration for us.

Innovations and developments never stop with us. We are always looking for new possibilities and the best-fit options for our customers.

Pumpkin, celeriac, and sweet potato; three special vegetables. A good match with each other and with us when it comes to processing. 

As of mid-July, we will have a new product in our range: snack vegetables that are cut into handy sticks. These freshly cut vegetable sticks are suitable for dip bowls and appetiser dishes. 

We are a proud sister of the Food Fellows company. Besides the bond with parent company Harvest House, we also share a love for healthy and nutritious vegetables of the highest quality.

Many companies face major labour challenges nowadays. Rising wages and the availability of seasonal workers may also be hampering your daily operations and growth strategy.

In this edition of 'Get acquainted with...', we introduce you to Sonja Groenewegen. Sonja has been with us for over 10 years. A familiar face within the organization. 

We work with fresh products every day. As a vegetable processing company, we are part of the food industry. Therefore, food safety and quality are extremely important. 

From week 30 to 45, we also process vegetables for the canning industry and sauce manufacturers. We cut bell peppers into quarters, so they can be preserved in pickles or oil, for example. 

We can process large volumes of bell pepper thanks to our automated modern production lines and our short lines of communication with growers. 

At Snijpunt, we are constantly exploring new ways of going even further in terms of food hygiene, food safety, product quality, efficiency and shelf life. We want to keep improving. Thinking that one step ahead. Thinking about the continuously changing, strict requirements that our customers also have to comply with.

At Snijpunt, we are constantly exploring new ways of going even further in terms of food hygiene, food safety, product quality, efficiency, and shelf life. We want to keep improving. Thinking that one step ahead.

A cored bell pepper is a bell pepper that has its stem, core, and seeds removed completely. In this process, they are removed without cutting the bell pepper in half or pieces. The cored bell pepper can be filled directly with for example minced meat, vegetables, or rice. This makes them extremely suitable for meat processors, meal producers, catering, and foodservice suppliers.

Trust is essential. Trust in companies, in products, in services and in people. Keep your promise, listen carefully, keep agreements, and deliver quality.

This autumn we have three real seasonal products for you: pumpkin, sweet potato, and now also celeriac. A special vegetable that certainly belongs in our range. This hard tuber is quite difficult to cut, and therefore, often makes it a time-consuming job for our customers.

This is it! We are ready! We have broken through the wall, completely redesigned our processing areas, and improved the infrastructure of our production lines.

"I have not experienced this in my 20-year career!" were the first words of Fred van Dijk, QA manager at Harvest House. That is how special this newly achieved AA grade is to us. We are very proud of it!

The vegetable arsenal renews and changes time and time again. The consumer, and therefore the market, require other products and more convenience. Since we would like to expand our product range and take the necessary - time-consuming - work off your hands, we are happy to respond to this new demand.

At this moment we experience cucumbertime* at Snijpunt. Not the boring version (see footnote), but the business version. A time in which we can offer plenty of industrial cucumbers, straight out of the greenhouses of our Harvest House growers.

It was official on May 3, 2018. Snijpunt has become part of Harvest House. One year later we look back at this first year with Marco.

Last time you were introduced to Jeroen, our raw materials buyer. He handed over the baton to Mark.

On Thursday, January 24th, the expansion of our production area officially started. Marco Romein, commercial director of Snijpunt, and Theo van Vliet, chairman of Harvest House, broke ground. Together with relations, employees, friends and family we toasted to this joyful moment.

We find it important to share success and contribute to a better society. That is why we donated our available budget for business gifts to charity last December: “Kinderen van de Voedselbank” (in English “Children of the Foodbank”), a foundation fighting the social consequences of child poverty in the Netherlands.

Once again, we found one: a nice catch! Now and then, we suddenly find a nice and special, or funny innovation, while visiting our growers. These "nice catches" are not always immediately available in large numbers. But they are certainly worthy to gauge the opinions of our customers. 

To offer even more insight into how things are going on in the workplace, we would like to introduce our team members to you. We start with Ada, one of our employees and quality inspector.

On June 1, 1998, Marco's adventure started under the name Rainbow Snijpunt. As part of a graduation assignment, Marco wanted to create added value for the products of the then newly established growers' association Rainbow.

Even though Snijpunt has worked independently all these years, there has always been close cooperation with the growers' association. Which was also included in cooperative Harvest House after several mergers. The cooperative that Snijpunt also belongs to since May, 2 of this year. Again, under the same flag as Rainbow, with which the original plan comes into effect.

Although the weather suggests otherwise, the BBQ season at Snijpunt has already started again. Every day we produce large volumes of diced bell peppers and onions for meat processors and vegetable cutting companies.

Our team already registered for the NN Rotterdam Marathon in December 2017. No, not for the individual 42km. They decided to go for a full marathon of 42k divided over 4 people. It did not take long to form a team with Danny, Ronald, Mark and Marco. Obviously, there was some training to do, and so schedules were exchanged.

Contrary to the name, the sweet potato is not related to the ordinary potato. Officially it's a vegetable and therefore it fits perfectly in our range. We offer the sweet potato peeled in a vacuum packaging of 5 kg. By vacuuming them, the taste will retain longer and the quality is better.

The past few months have all been about bell pepper powder at Snijpunt. Real bell pepper powder. Made from bell pepper residue, without any other additives. Compared to regular bell pepper powders, our variant offers more fragrance and flavour. Snijpunt Bell Pepper Powder is available in two variants: green and red. Green bell pepper powder is unique and very tasty.

Our customers’ businesses are becoming increasingly more diverse. It’s a well-known fact that we have already been working with vegetable cutting companies, caterers and salad or ready-made meal suppliers for a considerable amount of time. However, what’s less well known is that we are now also increasingly working together with companies from the meat processing industry. We would like to explain why this collaboration is really quite logical.

Of course, the fact we are dealing with scarcity is no longer news. The newspapers and online magazines are full of it. Headlines like ‘Every day is another challenge for vegetable processing companies’ and ‘If you are the only one who cannot deliver, you know you have done something wrong, but now everyone is at their wit's end’ are almost a daily feature.

Snijpunt has passed the BRC audit with flying colours and receives the BRC certificate A-Grade again. On November 16th, 2016 the audit took place. Like last year, the quality system is assessed at version 7 and meets all requirements again. The BRC A certification is the highest in this standard.

White radish, also called daikon or winter radish, has long been out of the picture in the kitchen. Fortunately, the product is now making a comeback. The taste of the long white root is similar to radish but is slightly different.

Snijpunt introduced its new product: ‘The Vegetable sticks’ in collaboration with Den Burg Catering.

Update raw material bell pepper  

In the past few weeks the Dutch bell pepper season has slowly started again

We have great news that we are very proud of. We are the first Dutch supplier of semi-prepared vegetables that have passed the QS audit. On May 10, 2017, we passed it with flying colours and therefore received the QS certification. Our quality system is assessed at all requirements of the QS system for fresh prepared vegetables.