Blending industrial automation and agriculture, Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) is building commercial scale farms that target higher levels of sustainability. The IGS Growth Tower is modular and scalable, delivered in 6-metre, 9-metre and 12-metre configurations. It provides an optimised environment for growing high-value crops like leafy salad greens, herbs or pharmaceutical crops, giving growers the ability to change up production to meet market demand. At existing farms, the system can also act as a dependable nursery in which to produce a diverse range of highquality, healthy plants.
It was developed from an initial proof-of-concept machine to a proven set-up that today operates on customer sites globally and features high-efficiency lighting, precise HVAC technology and automation that encourages productivity.
The scalable approach enables growers to start small and expand capacity seamlessly – but while expanding the system is simple for customers, it presented significant design and engineering challenges for the IGS team based in Scotland.
"Initially, much of the way we worked leaned on the years of hands-on experience that IGS's two cofounders had in industrial automation and agriculture, respectively," says Cameron Williamson, mechanical team leader at IGS. "That team started off small, so keeping track of product development and managing changes was relatively straightforward."
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