The Generalitat de Catalunya, committed to the development of a new system of sustainable irrigation

Porec Irrigations Systems, a company founded by the brothers Josep Maria and Alex Gaya with a long career in the development of machinery for the textile industry, has finished developing your product recently, after several years of research and testingwhich results in a new irrigation pipe on the basis of technical fabric of knitting. It is this run-up to the launch which subsidizes the Generalitat through a help framed in the order UIE/103/2007 of 11 April, on "subsidies to encourage the realization of business projects of research and development".

This aid, distributed in two budgetary lines has made it possible to Porec comes on the market with several products based on the same system of irrigation. The most important are the family vegetable garden Kit (a box with all the utensils needed to mount an orchard in the garden of House), the tree irrigation Kit and the planters irrigation Kit, which also include the tube irrigation and connections to irrigaterespectively, trees and planters.

The irrigation system that sells the company of Mataró, with a tape coated with a porous resin and possessing thousands of dynamic micromembranas, supposed to get a number of advantages over conventional systems, including a reduced risk of obstruction by particlesan easy installation or more control of the flow of water applied. In addition, when this system using buried it offers:

-More saving irrigation water because it prevents evaporation and runoff: goes by capillary action directly to the roots minorando the evaporation of water from external risks and can achieve savings of up to 20% water.

-Less treatment plant protection, because there is no humidity in the neck of the plant.

-Better protection of health, preventing disease transmission air as Legionella which may lead to other such as sprinkling irrigation systems.

-Decrease of the problems of vandalism in public gardens.

With regard to energy efficiency, this system allows water to low pressure, in long times, what saves energy. It is also very suitable for the application of recycled and in general non-potable water.

Some of the applications of the Porec tape in gardening are the irrigation for urban gardens, irrigation of trees, planters, irrigation of lawns, parks and gardens. On the agricultural side can be used for the irrigation of olive groves, vineyards, fruit, greenhouses, organic farming and growing bags. And also in public and private infrastructure for irrigation of sports fields, golf courses and medium of roads.

The new system of irrigation of Porec, patented in Europe, United States, United Arab Emirates, Chile and Israel and developed with the collaboration of companies Tints Quadrada and Color Center, has already received awards as the first prize to the best business initiative in the field of new technologies (Awards Cre@tic) or the award of the Diputació de Barcelona for the business initiative with greater respect for the environment. The company plans to start in 2010 the international release of their product.