Hans Van Schaik sadly passed away on 31st August 2020 at the age of 76 .
Greenlife Industry Australia reward a gentleman and a seer who change the way of life future generation approach soil health .
Han dynasty and his wife Marjan started a little globe moving commercial enterprise in the South East of South Australia 50 years ago and during this time he noticed barque and other timbre mill residues that were by - products of the local forestry industry were being dump into landfill or being burn and he believed that those constitutional rest could , and should be , value - tote up .
As a consequence of this , Hans pass many class research , trialling and refining the art of compost these timber pulverisation remainder . At the time Hans cut a funny figure track down his various trial where he believed that these organic materials that were conceive at the time dissipation could be composted and used to improve soil health and raise a stable and consistent growing medium for the nursery manufacture .
In 1975 , Van Schaiks Organic Soils and Bark Supplies was get down and by 1985 the party was servicing both the Victorian and SA markets with barque based growing medium .
In the late 1980 ’s , Hans start to trial composting of wood mush . He was the first person in Australia to start up these trails and once again it was against the popular public opinion of that time . Han gained a contract of provision with a local paper manufacturer which the ship’s company has retained to this sidereal day . This was Han ’s first foray into composting non forestry organic remainder .
Hans then start trialling the composting of domestic and landscape painting green organic waste cloth that was also going into landfill at the fourth dimension and through his trialling , enquiry and developing he became a leader in Australia in the art of compost constitutive residues .
In 1995 , Van Schaiks BioGro became the young name of the concern .
Han ’s initiation and foresight were recognised in the year 2000 when he was award the inaugural Australian World Forestry Day Award for his outstanding and innovative achievement in the forestry industries .
Han dynasty had take care the family company grow to more than 120 employees across five usable site and process in excess of 750,000 three-dimensional metres of organic material per annum . It has become one of Australia ’s leading BioSecure HACCP suppliers of farm medium , mulch and compost under the steering of Han ’s son and Managing Director , Stephen .
In 2016 Hans and Marjan were honoured with a extra initiatory award called the NGISA Industry Recognition Award for their contribution to the nursery and garden industry .
Hans was a base man with a marvelous work ethic and ego - notion in his visual sense and through his loyalty , perseverance and braveness he became one of the most significant influencers of the nursery , horticultural and landscape painting industries of his time .
Time has shown that Hans was a valet before his time with his innovative and entrepreneurial coming to bring off forestry and timber residues as well as other commercial and industrial constituent waste streams and the bequest he leaves behind can never be minimize .
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