Events

The IPPS Conference is taking place from the 8th - 10th October. 

Our 2025 Conference Sponsors are;

ICL - Platinum Sponsor

ICL is leading the way in quality peat-free growing media – shaping the future of sustainable horticulture. Offering bespoke growing media mixes through our Levington Advance Solutions package, we incorporate our industry leading brands such as Osmocote controlled release fertiliser, as well as our biological additives, such as Vitalnova TriBoost to improve plant health & quality. 

ICL’s vast growing solutions portfolio and services are designed to meet growers’ current and forthcoming requirements, to provide long-term solutions for your nursery.
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Gramaflor - Headliner Sponsor

What began in 1908 as Anton Gramann's peat trading company is now Gramoflor GmbH & Co. KG - a modern substrate manufacturer with a clear focus on peat reduction. 

With around 130 employees at two sites in northern Germany and a production facility on the Iberian Peninsula, we supply professional and amateur gardeners in Germany and abroad with high-quality substrates and soils. 

Our heart beats for the protection of peatlands, which is why we are committed to the development and preservation of raised bogs in northern Germany.
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Bransford Webbs - 6 Packer Support 

The Bransford Webbs Plant Company is one of the leading growers of ornamental plants in the UK. 

We are a wholesale nursery based in Worcestershire and supply new and innovative plant promotions to garden centres across the UK. Established in 1961, the nursery covers fifteen hectares and produces two million plants per year. We grow a range of shrubs and herbaceous perennials. The nursery is proud to be a local employer, employing up to 100 staff during peak season. 

 We have held the British Standard in Environmental Management Systems for over 10 years, and sustainability is a key element in our decision making.
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Proptek - 6 Packer Support

John Cooley in the early 1980’s was growing vegetable young plants in Expanded Polystyrene trays and figured there had to be a better way to improve plants per square meter. He worked on propagation trays in thermoformed and then injection moulded plastics and increased the P/SM by 20%. He took this idea to California where he started work by including Air Pruning technology into the tray design.

30 years later a whole range of Air Pruning propagation and growing trays became commonplace throughout the USA and Asia making Proptek a Global Company. The positive responses from growers in these regions allowed Proptek to fine tune the tray designs to allow for full mechanisation and the use of Ellepots to further aid Air Pruning.

The benefits to the nurseries are a reduction in labour, reduction in substrate use and maximum efficiency in water and fertigation management. All due to making propagation trays that suit mechanised transplanting and nursery transport systems and Air pruning technology.

Air Pruning allows the roots to grow through the sides of the cells where the tips are pruned by the air. This creates further roots that repeat the same process and behind them, a mass of feeder roots are created that are there to take up water and nutrients creating better plants and increased yields, reduced transplant fatalities, improved regrowth in pots and in fields. No longer do we see root circling, “J” or tap roots or water stagnation in root bound pots.

Proptek operates on a low carbon footprint. All the trays currently offered are Injection Moulded for long life (average 20 years), made from a high percentage recycled material, and usually manufactured in the country where the customer is based. Proptek only owns the tools and looks for existing Injection Moulding factories to manufacture closest to where the customer resides. This reduces the carbon footprint significantly.

With a combined nursery production experience of over 100 years, we employ specialists in our sales and production teams to best serve the nursery industry. We let the roots do the work!

Visit the Proptek Website here