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Signify has provided Great Lakes Greenhouses, North America's largest grower, shipper, and packer of hydroponic cucumbers, with the Philips GreenPower LED toplighting compact and Philips GreenPower toplighting linear fixtures.
Artemy is the brand-new harvest robot developed jointly by DENSO Corporation and Certhon, and it is ready for the commercial market. The robot is equipped with advanced vision technology for scanning the crop by its maturity and harvests ripe truss tomatoes.
Late 2023, Signify was commissioned by its recurring customer, Jami Tomatoes BV, the Netherlands, to provide a full LED installation, consisting of Philips GreenPower LED toplighting compact (TLC) and Philips GreenPower LED Interlighting. The installation provides up to 250 µmol/m2/sec of...
Signify, the world leader in lighting, provided a dimmable, full LED light installation at the Qcumber Optimize Nature VOF nursery in the Netherlands, where it was put into use in October. The company, which has 6 hectares of greenhouses, produces cucumbers using a high-wire cultivation system...
Fruit Attraction celebrates its 15th anniversary in style from 3 to 5 October. The fair, organised by IFEMA MADRID and FEPEX and with Andalusia as the Guest Region,records the largest participation in its history with 2,000 exhibiting companies from 56 countries, more than 64,000 square metres of...
From 25 to 29 September 2023 Pop Vriend Seeds opens the doors for growers, distributors and partners to discover our newest varieties and latest innovations. PopFest is the place where everything comes together. The fields, the focus, food for thought and - most importantly - the Pop Friends from...
With the founding of GrowOrganiX, the family-owned businesses Van Marrewijk Maassluis of Maassluis (the Netherlands) and Max Schwarz AG of Villigen (Switzerland) will join forces in a new endeavour. The new company will produce young plants for European growers of organic tomatoes, sweet peppers,...
Signify, the world leader in lighting, together with Wageningen University & Research and Nunhems conducted research that shows that the use of far-red light can produce an additional yield of almost one fifth in tomatoes, depending on the variety. The far-red light needs to be added during the...
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The new Training & Demonstration Centre HortiSenegal project kicked off in Kirene, Senegal, on 9 March. In this initiative by vegetable breeding company Rijk Zwaan and co-funded by the Dutch government, a consortium of companies will provide training to local farmers. The goal is not only to...
The world's largest horticultural trade fair had to take a break for two years because of a small virus. Now the next edition of IPM Essen will start from 24 to 27 January 2023 - and expects many visitors from all over the world!
Seoul, South Korea – Signify Korea has installed a Philips horticulture LED grow light solution at the 2.8 ha Parm Farm Greenhouse for tomato production located in Nonsan, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea. Parm Farm chose to install Philips GreenPower toplighting compact to accelerate plant growth,...
Since 2004, the family business Emsflower of the Dutch Kuipers family in Emsbüren has continued to grow. At that time, Bennie Kuipers and his sons Tom and Bart were already producing 500 million bedding and balcony plants. German horticultural products are in demand and land for new greenhouses is...
Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting solutions, provides Philips GreenPower LED toplighting linear to Glenwood Valley Farms for their lighting expansion. Glenwood Valley Farms is an established vegetable grower located in Langley, British Columbia/UAA with a 6-hectare cucumber...
Signify, the world leader in lighting, announced already in November 2021 the launch of its first global virtual horticulture knowledge center. The center will provide profound research insights and advanced lighting solutions for growers in Singapore and the region that will help Singapore and...
Growers United-members Roots and Growers United Invest improve lit tomato cultivation with Philips GreenPower LED toplighting. The modules produce more light for the same amount of energy and replace half of the existing HPS lights. Support from the crop specialist at Signify accelerates the...
