Our core competence and our standard are continuously optimum quality in products and service. Our approach is innovative and sustainable, and our sales are broadly international in addition to the domestic market. We meet our customers on a professional and interpersonal level.
…and what we stand for:
On June 1, 1920, the textile merchants and brothers Arnold and August Brill founded the general partnership “Georgsdorfer Torfwerk Gebr. Brill”. Their combined technical and commercial expertise led the company from small beginnings to its present importance. In the late 1970s, the company was one of the first in Germany to succeed in switching from peat litter and peat fuel extraction to production of high-quality substrates and soils. Today, Gerrit Brill is the third generation in his family to lead “Gebr. Brill Substrate GmbH & Co. KG”.
From the beginning of January 2022, Kekkilä-BVB will take over the traditional family business Gebr. Brill Substrate GmbH & Co. KG. The purchase contract was signed on December 10, 2021.
The production company will continue to operate under the name Kekkilä-Brill Substrate GmbH. Together with Gebr. Brill Substrate, Kekkilä-BVB is taking over the shares of Brill Papenburg Logistics GmbH, the sales subsidiary Brill France and 50% of the shares in Geotec production in Italy.
…nature’s best substrates!
“It fills me with pride to lead a family-run, lively and sustainable company whose achievements and successes have been and are being developed together with the people of the region – often with several members of the same families – and many national and international business partners,” says Gerrit Brill.
Focus on crop safety
Historically, peat has been an important, difficult-to-replace component for substrate production due to its unique properties. In vegetable plant cultivation alone, Brill produces peat-based substrates for around 2.5 billion young plants every year and thus contributes to supplying people with a healthy and diverse range of fruit and vegetables in Germany and over 30 countries worldwide.
Sustainable product strategy
“For years, we have been working in the field of growing media and gardening products with rapidly renewable raw materials as a supplement to peat. In our anniversary year, 2020, we are focusing even more clearly on sustainability. In addition to peat reduction, we also deal intensively with issues such as climate neutrality, use of old plastic, regenerative power supply and digitisation.
With a wide range of measures, we are consciously and actively adapting to the changes in society with regard to bog, nature and climate protection.”
Our team of experts will give you competent advice on our existing or individual solutions.
Brill and TerraBRILL are product brands for professional growing media and hobby substrates by Kekkilä-BVB, the European leader in horticulture. Kekkilä-BVB provides products and services for professional greenhouse growers, landscapers and consumers in more than 100 countries globally. We grow together with our customers for a better future.
