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Thank you for visiting our website. Hello, I’m Michael Christian, president and chief plumber of American Hydroponics. Since you ended up here, you are more than likely interested in finding out more about us. If this is so, it is my pleasure to tell our story.
There are 20 of us located in a 16,000 square foot manufacturing facility that looks out over green pasture and foothills of tall redwoods in Humboldt County California where the air is clean, the water pure and earthquakes are plentiful. We incorporated as Sun Circle, Inc. in 1984 as a hydroponic system manufacturer. It was clear to us that hydroponic gardening had so many benefits for people in cities, water conservation, diversity of crop cultivation and ease of maintenance, that we decided to manufacture hydroponic systems.
We purchased a thermoformer, a big expensive heater and plastic forming machine to mold our own tray, reservoir designs. We use a unique ABS plastic for our trays, made from 75% recycled material. We recycle all of our scrap plastic, which goes into the regrind of our next plastic order. Local recycling is very important to us so we try to manufacture all of our products with some portion of recycled plastic in them.
One mold led to another as our industry grew and now we have accumulated a hobby hydro product line that includes hydroponic systems, Mini-Dosers (nutrient dosing controllers), liquid nutrient amendments, Dark Energy, Super Nova, Super Charger, Companion, specialized fittings Net Pots, Perfect Pots , pumps and an assortment of cool equipment for the specialty hobby gardening and hydroponic market.
We ventured into commercial hydroponics in 1995, specifically nutrient film technique (NFT) technology, when we traveled to Australia and New Zealand, home of the hydro recirculation experts. When we returned home, we set up the first outdoor NFT lettuce operation in the United States. We currently provide large commercial NFT systems throughout the United States, including Hawaii, Honduras, Mexico, Philippines and Israel as well as schools, colleges and research facilities. These systems are growing lettuce, herbs, and vine crops, both indoors and out.
Currently, we have the highest rate of successful growers using our commercial hydroponic systems than any other system manufacturer. Check out our commercial products and download the pdf commercial brochure.
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