New LED Lighting Technology Brings The Power Of The Sun To Hydroponics

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New LED Lighting Technology Brings The Power Of The Sun To Hydroponics

A high-tech lighting system that mimics the huge variety of sunlight — manufactured by Edmonton company G2V and developed in a University of Alberta lab by research scientist Michael Taschuk — is now being tested in four cannabis grow operations across Canada

IGrow PreOwned 7/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/21/18

Italy: Tomato Grower Plans To Light 6 Hectares With LED

Prominent Italian tomato grower Gandini Antonio officially selected igrox srl as technological partner in LED supplemental lighting.

IGrow PreOwned 7/16/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/16/18

Turn-Key Vertical Farm Technology Available In Japan

Netled has made an agreement with M2 Solution on a presence in the Japanese market. The agreement opens Asia's fast growing market to Finnish high-tech vertical farming technology.

IGrow PreOwned 7/12/18 IGrow PreOwned 7/12/18

Nichia Turns Vegetables Into Medicinal Plants With LED Lighting

LED applications have opened an explosive market in horticulture lighting. Nichia, the Japanese LED giant, set up a laboratorial plant factory in Shanghai to test how different LED light sources can alter the ingredients of plants to create medicinal effects.

IGrow PreOwned 6/27/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/27/18

Adjusting Lighting Conditions To Grow NASA Salads

Osram is providing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with a customized version of its proprietary connected horticulture research lighting system, Phytofy RL.

IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/26/18

Valoya Launches a High Intensity LED Grow Light for Greenhouses

The RX400 is a dimmable 400W LED grow light that boasts a light efficiency of 2,3 µmol/W making it a suitable one-to-one replacement for a 600W HPS light.

IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/23/18

Hein van der Sande Opens Certhon Innovation Centre

The Innovation Centre is a 240 m2 greenhouse construction with insulation panels. Different cultivation methods and multi-layer cultivation are tested here. The cultivation is computer-controlled. And, last but not least, robots are going to be used.

IGrow PreOwned 6/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/21/18

Superior Fresh – Largest Aquaponics Facility In The World

Superior Fresh is the largest aquaponics facility in the world. Their state-of-the-art fish facility is coupled with a 3-acre glass greenhouse where they grow various leafy greens and herbs.

IGrow PreOwned 6/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/21/18

Herifi Introduces Advanced Led Grow Light Technology To Improve Interior Aquarium, Plant Growing Efficiency

Shenzhen Herifi Technology Co., Ltd develops a wide range of LED grow light to increasing more efficient light energy applicability in aquarium, plant growth, flowering and art while reducing global energy cost.

IGrow PreOwned 6/19/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/19/18

Top-Shelf Growing With LEDs

Mike Zelkind worked in the food industry for more than 25 years before co-founding and becoming CEO of 80 Acres, an indoor farming company producing pesticide-free crops. “There’s an opportunity to grow it much more efficiently, to grow it without any pesticides — to grow a clean, nutritious product,” he says.

IGrow PreOwned 6/14/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/14/18

Signify And New Horti LED Partner Hortilife Boost Yields at Latvian Grower "Getlini EKO" Through Philips Greenpower LEDs

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that its new partnership with Hortilife B.V. has boosted the yields at Getlini EKO, a Latvian grower of tomatoes, cucumbers, and hanging plants. Results of the first commercial full-LED horticultural lighting project for IMEA cucumbers at Getlini EKO mirror those achieved in an earlier trial.

IGrow PreOwned 6/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/11/18

US (WI): Superior Fresh Grows Salmon And Veggies At High-Tech Facility

Superior Fresh is the largest aquaponics facility in the world. Their state-of-the-art fish facility is coupled with a 3-acre glass greenhouse where they grow various leafy greens and herbs.

IGrow PreOwned 6/9/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/9/18

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lighting Research Center Releases New Report on LED Horticultural Lighting Systems

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has published a new report on the energy and economic performance of LED horticultural luminaires.

IGrow PreOwned 6/8/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/8/18

Signify Signs New Partnership Agreement With Eiffage Energie Systèmes To Serve French Horticulture Market

Signify, the world leader in lighting, today announced it has signed an official Philips Horti LED partnership agreement with Eiffage Energie Systèmes.

IGrow PreOwned 6/8/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/8/18

Thrive Agritech Secures $2 Million Capital Injection

The latest investment round, led by New York-based Rose Capital, accelerates the LED lighting company's unique lighting technology into the global horticulture market.

IGrow PreOwned 6/7/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/7/18

Current, Powered By GE And Jones Food Company Partner To Launch Europe’s Largest Indoor Farm

Current, powered by GE (NYSE: GE) and Jones Food Company Ltd. (JFC), today announced that construction is underway toward building one of the world’s largest indoor farms.

IGrow PreOwned 6/6/18 IGrow PreOwned 6/6/18

Signify Signs Deal With Agro-Inwest To More Than Double The Size of The world’s Largest LED Horticultural Lighting Project To 68.5 Hectares

Improvements in tomato production, quality and predictability lead Agro-Inwest to expand its LED installation from 25 to 68.5 hectares – an area equivalent to 100 soccer pitches

IGrow PreOwned 5/31/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/31/18

“The 2020’s Will Be The Decade of The Vertical Agriculture Revolution”- Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google

For a planet with declining resources, indoor agriculture is a key component to improving food safety while reducing waste and growing more nutritious food in highly controlled environments that utilize electric lighting, thermal, and sensing controls.

IGrow PreOwned 5/31/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/31/18

The Challenge of Space Gardening: One Giant 'Leaf' For Mankind

NASA has decided that gardening in space will be crucial for the next generation of explorers, who need to feed themselves on missions to the Moon or Mars that may last months or years.

IGrow PreOwned 5/30/18 IGrow PreOwned 5/30/18

Philips Lighting Is Now Signify

"The choice of our new company name originates from the way light becomes an intelligent language, which connects and conveys meaning," said Eric Rondolat, CEO of Signify.