North American Growers Welcome New Tool To Manage Light

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North American Growers Welcome New Tool To Manage Light

The decision to partner with Sudlac was based on the European manufacturer’s proven ideas and concepts to manage light and protect the greenhouse structure, says Chris.

IGrow PreOwned 3/5/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/5/18

Philips Lighting Signs New Partnership Agreement With Greenhouse Specialist ST Solution for Russian Horticulture Market

Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced the official Philips LED Horti partnership agreement with ST Solution, a Russian specialist in turnkey greenhouse solutions.

IGrow PreOwned 3/5/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/5/18

LumiGrow, Completes Oversubscribed Bridge Financing Round

With the successful closing, LumiGrow will continue to focus on providing industry-leading LED lighting hardware and software solutions to commercial horticulture and research institutions, utilizing data gathered through its smartPARTM software application and recently introduced smartPARTM Light Sensor Module.

IGrow PreOwned 3/3/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/3/18

Lighting Research Spotlight

Thinking of adding or upgrading supplemental grow lights in your greenhouse? Then the article “How Many Light Fixtures Do I Need?” written by GLASE Principal Investigator Dr. Neil Mattson and published in the e-Gro Edible Alert is a must read.

IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18 IGrow PreOwned 3/2/18

Can CEA Growers Be Offered Better Lighting and Control Systems?

The Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE ) consortium is bringing together industries and researchers from different sectors in an open platform to integrate advanced energy-efficient LED lighting with improved environmental controls for more efficient and sustainable greenhouse production.

IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/26/18

Independence LED Lighting Ready With Program To Back Changes To SNAP

Independence LED Lighting stated that it was shovel ready for a pilot programme in Philadelphia to support proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP), included in the President’s Budget for Financial Year 2019.

IGrow PreOwned 2/24/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/24/18

Horticultural LED Market: Is Amazon Showing The Way?

The horticultural LED lighting market reached almost $3.8 billion in 2017, currently driven mainly by greenhouse applications. But future growth may be dominated by new types of farming.

IGrow PreOwned 2/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/22/18

Philips Lighting Horticulture LED Solutions Adds Honey Electric To North America Partner Network

Honey Electric specializes in electrical contracting for commercial, agricultural, industrial, and solar installations in the province of Ontario and is now positioned to offer Philips GreenPower LED lighting to their horticulture customers in Ontario and beyond.

IGrow PreOwned 2/19/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/19/18

Philips Lighting Announces First Russian LED Cucumber Project With Agrokultura Group and New Partner Svetogor

Philips Lighting today announced it has installed its first LED grow light project for cucumber cultivation in Russia with Agrokultura Group, LLC, and its new business partner Svetogor.

IGrow PreOwned 2/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/15/18

Vertical Farming, LEDs and The Flavor of Leafy Greens

A large climate cell with endless racks of microgreens illuminated with soft pink or white light works 24/7 to bring delicious microgreens to the kitchens of some of Amsterdam’s top restaurants.

IGrow PreOwned 2/9/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/9/18

Panasonic Vertical Farm in Full Operation

Multinational electronics company Panasonic will start growing and marketing high-value vegetables in China from March 2018 with its vertical farm in Suzhou. Those vegetables will be made into salads and sold to up to 30 shops in Suzhou and Shanghai.

IGrow PreOwned 2/8/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/8/18

Philips Lighting North America launches new GreenPower LED Interlighting with greater efficacy and plug and play installation

Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, announced the new Philips GreenPower LED Interlighting Generation 3 (Gen 3) is now available for the North America market.

IGrow PreOwned 2/2/18 IGrow PreOwned 2/2/18

North American Growers Welcome New Tool To Manage Light

“Giving growers the tools to manage light quality is one of our specialities,” says Chris Higgins, General Manager of Hort Americas.

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A New Report on SSL’s Energy-Saving Potential in Horticultural Applications

DOE has just released a report that examines the energy-saving potential of LED lighting in horticultural applications.

IGrow PreOwned 1/25/18 IGrow PreOwned 1/25/18

Philips Lighting Introduces New GreenPower LED Toplighting at IPM Essen With Higher Efficacy, Light output and a Longer Lifetime

Both new versions offer a higher light efficacy of up to 3.3 µmol/J, a longer lifetime of 35,000 burning hours and exceptional energy efficiency compared to the former toplighting module.

IGrow PreOwned 1/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 1/22/18

Philips Lighting’s New GrowWise Control System Gives Growers and Researchers More Flexibility and Control For LED Cultivation

“This is our first step towards digitization of Horti LED lighting systems,” said Udo van Slooten, Business Leader Horticulture at Philips Lighting. “The GrowWise Control System is the hardware platform that will allow us to build digital lighting control in the future. This will replace our current analog research systems.”

IGrow PreOwned 1/22/18 IGrow PreOwned 1/22/18

How Can You Grow Healthier Crops With Affordable Lighting Systems?

New research from the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering consortium will revolutionize greenhouse lighting systems.

IGrow PreOwned 1/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 1/21/18

Valoya Launches a Line of LED Grow Lights for Greenhouses

The BL-Series are sturdy yet lightweight LED bars optimized for greenhouse cultivation of a wide variety of plants.

IGrow PreOwned 1/15/18 IGrow PreOwned 1/15/18

Philips Lighting Installs LED Project At Madestein UK, Which Supplies Fresh Lettuce To Major UK Retailers

Philips Lighting today announced that Madestein UK, in Chichester, UK, which supplies fresh lettuce and herbs to the UK’s major food retailers, food service companies and wholesale markets, is installing Philips GreenPower LED toplighting

IGrow PreOwned 1/4/18 IGrow PreOwned 1/4/18

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Has Named The TotalGrow Pure Flowering 200 Lamp Winner of a 2018 AE50 Award.

AE50 awards honor the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agriculture industries.