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History
Floris Goes has an idea
In the late 1940s, Floris Goes resigns from the printing company in Mijdrecht where he worked. He decides to be the first Dutchman to build commercial fryers. He stores them at his father-in-law’s house in Utrecht, where he soon runs out of space.
English inspiration
Floris Goes came up with the idea after the war, while stationed as a soldier at a Dutch base in Wolverhampton. There he saw that the English prepared their fish and chips on rectangular trays filled with oil and heated with gas, without a thermostat. Ries Goes: “There must be a better way, my father thought.”
Goes meets Quirinus Bakker
Searching for more production capacity, he ended up with coachbuilder Quirinus Bakker in 1951. Until then, Bakker had been building trailers in Kamerik (near Woerden) for the ERU cheese factory in Woerden. Floris Goes and his wife even decided to move in with Bakker. Goes and his wife moved in with Bakker.
The split
The two part ways. According to some with an quarrel. In 1957, Floris Goes started his own factory in Woerden. Bakker quits the body shop and starts his own fryer brand Perfecta, with his brother Jan.
The conveyor belt for fries
In the 1960s, Floris Goes produced plenty of fryers for Dutch fries & snack shops. Under the name Florigo Industry, he also begins a large industrial factory for French fries, crisps and peanuts. Customers include companies such as Aviko, Smiths (now Lays) and Duyvis.
The conveyor belt for fries (2)
In 1965, Kiremko B.V. was founded. Factory production lines are also made to produce chips, crisps and more. It emerged from the Quirinus Bakker company that sells the Perfecta deep fryers.
Spin-off: the bag packer
Former Florigo employee Bob Prakken founded BluePrint Automation in Woerden in 1980. It specializes in “automatic packaging of non-shapeable packages” . These machines put bags of French fries (or other products) into boxes. It is a world market leader.
Goes focussen on frying rangers
In 1981, Floris Goes sold that past of the factory. He continues to manufacture fryers and frying ranges for the food industry under the name Florigo Horeca b.v. In the late 1980s, his three sons join the company.
The Germans
Florigo International was bought by Germany’s BMA in 2002. In the following years, BMA consists of two branches: one focusing on the potato processing industry and one focusing on cheese processing. In 2012, BMA Groep Nederland goes bankrupt. Later, investment company Festos buys the potato branch.
QBTEC scrapes them together
An important moment for the legacy of Quirinus Bakker. In 2007, under the banner of QBTEC (with his initials), several frying competitors came together: Kiremko, Perfecta and Smitto.
Down Under
In March 2015, Florigo International (meaning the factory branch) was sold to Australia’s TNA for an undisclosed sum.
Ducate Woerden
Florigo will continue under Ducate Woerden in 2019, along with manufacturers De Kuiper and Hegro. The three will continue to operate as independent brands. The three established manufacturers combine their knowledge and strengths while maintaining their own unique identities. The advantage for customers is a full range of professionally developed and affordable fryers.
