Crop Protection
Maintaining your premium quality fruit and vegetable crop can be challenging in New Zealand’s harsh climate. That’s why we offer a variety of permanent and temporary protective cropping solutions. Our range of Wind break, Shelter Cloth, Shadecloth, Nettings, Galvanised Cable and Structural Canopy nets offer protection from the damage that crops can suffer due to strong winds such as wind rub and burn, frost, hail and birds.
Strong winds can limit the productivity and quality of your crop by breaking branches, lacerating flowers and leaves, bruising the fruit, or causing it to fall before it is ripe. Our products help deflect wind and provide a safe zone of reduced wind, reduced erosion, and reduced moisture loss.
Horticultural Shadecloth
At certain stages, different plants need different amounts of sun protection. For example, indoor plants can be hardened for office life if they are given an early stint under more shade. At 70% shade (where 70% of UV light is blocked), some plants struggle to get sunlight, so they become acclimatised to indoor conditions. Large net structures over citrus or berries will need more light (often only 30% UV blocking) to promote flowers and fruit. Commercial shade cloth, usually black, green or white, ranges from an open weave 30% to a tight weave 80% shade. Empak has experienced staff to assist in this important decision. You should also consult your horticultural industry for advice on New Zealand standards for accurate shade factors and crop applications.
Features
- 1.83m and 3.66m wide standard products yet other sizes are made to order, subject to a minimum order quantity.
- UV stabilized with proven strength and tear resistance
- 10-year pro-rata UV degradation warranty
- Suitable to be fabricated to your requirements.
- Shadecloth is available in nominal shades of 30%, 50%, 70% and 80%.
- Cost-effective crop shading solution.
