Home>Company If you want to set milestones, you have to get up earlier. More than 100 years earlier. 1913 Georg Klasmann establishes his Heseper Torfwerk (peat works in Hesepe) 1959 Production of the very first ready-to-use substrate starts in Sedelsberg 1991 Start of composting operations 1996 Inauguration of the substrate factory in the port of Rotterdam 2000 Acquisition of stake in Lithuanian peat production sites in Silute and Laukesa 2001 Foundation of Klasmann-Deilmann Asia Pacific 2010 Start of GreenFibre® production 2010 State-of-the-art substrate factory in Silute/Lithuania 2011 Foundation of sales companies in the USA, Italy and Austria 2011 Business activities start in Latvia 2015 State-of-the-art big bale factory in Silute/Lithuania 2016 Sales of the Growcoon® propagation system start 2020 Launch of “Log & Solve” – a digital platform for monitoring and consulting 2021 Acquisition of Australian Growing Solutions Pty Ltd (AGS) 2023 Introduction of the pioneering substrate fiber Nygaia