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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 and greenhouse facilities are located just north of Santo Domingo between the towns of Pedregal and Salamanca, which can be reached in an hour from Santo Domingo’s Las Americas International Airport.

 

 

Orchidom is currently producing about 35,000 flasks annually in its laboratory facilities. At any one time, the 3,000 square feet of shelf/bench space set aside for flasks contains 15,000 to 20,000 flasks.

 

 

 

Laboratory, producing

500,000 orchids

per year

Light room: motherflasks,

re-spreads

and re-plates

15,000 to 20,000 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 the company's general offices, its laboratory facilities, the offices of the greenhouse managers, and the local and export sales operations, 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 state-of-the-art coolhouse at the greenhouse complex in Pedregal.

 

 

Phalaenopsis:

150,000 blooming size

Plants available in 2009

 

Phalaenopsis-type Dendrobiums:

150,000 blooming size

plants available in 2009

 

Cattleyas:

30,000 blooming size

plants available in 2009

Small-growing Oncidinae:

20,000 blooming size

plants available in 2009

The Company’s principals are:

William H. Savage - Chairman of the Board of Directors

Rogert Espaillat - President, Board Member

Nancy K. Mountford - Vice President, Board Member

Roger B. Cole - Board Member

Elizabeth Sanlate - Vice President and Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer

Erol Mojica - Vice President, Chief of Orchid Production

Gladys Davis - Chief of Laboratory Operations

Luis Concepcion - Chief Orchid Grower

 

Orchids Dominicana is a member of:

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

   

 

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

 

 

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