VertiFarm 2023

Lucie Jechova and Camille Hanna with Skytree debuting their introductory offer on their Cumulus unit; an on-site CO2 generator

Arnoud Bolten (Polariks) and Edwin Snabel with Bosman Van Zaal introducing the OptiRack Grow integrating uniformal air distribution from the bottom to the top driven by Polarix's data platform

Franky van Looveren, Bert van der Lugt, Prisca Meyer, Koen Vangorp, Ellen Everaert and Birger Goossens of Mechatronics

Adam Abadi with Cultivatd and Ralph Becker with Urban Greens

Felix Ockert, Sabine Cecere, and Rick Schneider with Siemens ready to share how they're involved with vertical farming

Miguel Mendes de León with VertiFarm was rather content about the show outcome

Meanwhile at Avisomo's stand... We believe that Endre Harnes was looking for his waffle iron given the popularity last year? Martin Molenaar brought a different kind of steel to the fair, namely the Avisomo Growth Stations!

Bernhard Aichele and Sabine Zander with HerkuPlast

The Otte Metallbau booth

Can't get around them. As always, the Vertically Urban brought more than their Hortiblade lights, the Vertically Urban beers were present as well!

Robin Johansson and Lennard Sör with Optima Planta will share some more news soon about ornamentals

Roel Jansen with Planet Farms and Renko Schuil with TTA who welcomed everyone with a freshly made coffee at the booth

The Dexion team gladly presents their racking solutions for vertical farms

Daan Tervoort, Willem and Kevin Jonkman with Hortigold are going to build in the Middle East from December onwards

Danko Tolic hiding in between Sananbio's latest Radix module whilst Galen Zhou and Dan O'Brien are striking a pose

Vertical Future's Grant Macdonald and Carlos Flores Ortiz presenting the company's software and hardware which is in constant development

The vGreens team has expanded rapidly ever since last year as they're ready to roll out their commercial strawberry production solution

Drinks after the event

The team of Priva!

Rebekka Boekhout (VerticalFarmDaily) and Galen Zhou with Sananbio enjoyed a non-alcoholic beer after the event

Jan Burmeister and Philine Carstens of E Nema

Nadine Spittank and Andrea Schubert of greenhouse.ruhr are helping start ups in Dortmund

Erik Wikstrom and Maja Eriksson of Wivid presented their grow lighting system

Harvest AI makes it able to steer growing the crop by a AI based prediction Alexandre Sicard and Clemens Muller

Florin Pfeffermann of Menno Chemie for cleaning and desinfection

Adrian Heine (Knecht)

Niels Jacobs and René van Haeff van Light4Food were visitors at Vertifarm

Sormac: Karsten Schmitz, Luuk Rutten and Fabiaan Hendricks

Thomas Buter of Floragard

Bart 't Hoen (Hoogendoorn), Reinier Donkersloot (Consult2Grow), Luis Trujillo (Hoogendoorn) and Martin van Tol (LetsGrow)

Mattijs Taal of Priva

Luis Trujillo (Hoogendoorn)

Dominique Blok and Jakob Johannson (Ludvig Svensson) came to visit Vertifarm not because of their screens because of their Climaflow

Christian Eidam of Menno Chemie

Dan Nielsen with Seasony proudly showing of their latest Watny robot for vertical farms

Crowded booth of The Urbanisten

Heerco Walinga of CE-Line. CE-Line BV brings the Celine technology to the greenhouse sector. The real-time measurements will unlock the real potential of precision farming in the greenhouse sector. Currently, nutrient measurements are done by labs, and only once a week. Real-time nutrients measurements connected to individual dosing instrumentation will control the irrigation water in greenhouses to the optimal levels, at all times. Irrigation water on the right taste will ensure more production and a stable quality of crops.

Cambridge HOK, Noel O'Leary

Christian Mette and Benjamin Klug of Aglukon presented Wuxal fertilizers.

Indo Lighting: Antoine Charvin and Paul Nelson. They're entering the market with their first growth light

The Seoul Semiconductor booth

Ecobloom's Hanza Qadoumi was also wandering on the exhibition floor

Weiss Technik: Samuel Gluck, Evgene Andrachnikov and Wolfgang Richter

We managed to get the entire Association for Vertical Farming team on the photo, whilst they were occupied with their 7th AVF summit which also takes place during the show

Lutz Kaiser and Sascha Rose with Roko Farming showing their latest system update whilst working on another product that's a bit bigger and suitable for microgreen production. On top of that, they could be used by conventional farmers as well.

Alessandro Mazzacano with Urbinati sharing about their irrigation and seeding solutions for vertical farm and propagation

Erwan Roualt with Farm3 (Farmcube) presenting their latest system that is mostly used for high value crops for which they're collaborating with big wine- and perfume producers, as well as open-field producers.

Oliver Reisen and Jannik Schneider with Aachen.eden are teaching about bringing aquaponics into society as a nonprofit. The team is launching a pilot based 15 minutes from the city center of Aachen in an abandoned supermarket.

Frank Klutsch with Knecht

The AVF team

Robin Vincent and Catherine Borellu with Canobi AgTech see a growing trend in Canada for homegrowing

The iGrox and the Nido Pro team

Johann Waldherr and Tobias Pfeiffer with Würth Elektronik posing with Philipp Engel (Engel Lighting) in the middle

‏‏‎Oscar Davidson (LettUs Grow), Thea Otto (AVF), Adam Abadi (Cultivatd), Sepehr Achard (iGrow News) and Klaas Ahrens (vGreens) having a chat at the Cultivatd booth

Harry Duran with the Vertical Farming Podcast left his studio behind and came to visit the show himself!

The Corbiota and BAMA ai team

Father and daughter! Ard and Laura van de Kreeke with Growy

Galina Gorshkova and Tim Schäfer with Crocus Labs showing the latest product ready for launch, fully tunable and energy efficient to enable growers from improving strawberry taste to increasing basil yield

Bo Jørfensen (Danvan A/S), Renko Schuil (TTA) and Xander van der Zande (DanDutch)

Lisa-Marie Backes with Seawater Cubes talking about their Marine RAS systems and their controlled fish containers

The 7th AVF Summit

After the first day of Vertifarm 2023 networking started in the network area

Kay Plat and Alexander Jaworski with Greenhub, which is a plug and play system that can be used to collect data whilst doing R&D.

Ali Amirlatigi (Evergreen Farm Oy) and Sabine Loos (Westfallenhallen Unternehmensgruppe)

Antonio Jerez and Cristian Nieves with Farmitank developing a new research model with less m2 per crop for smaller R&D solutions

Timo Kantola with EOD showing their oxygen nano bubble generators

Presentations during the exhibitions

RHENAC CEO Horst Theisen (2nd from right) with representatives of Seoul Semiconductor Europe GmBH.

Vertigan

Celine's booth

Christian Ammann with PhoboSys GmbH

It's busy at the Zayndu stand

Paul Nelson with Indo Lighting

Meanwhile at Avisomo's stand... We believe that Endre Harnes was looking for his waffle iron given the popularity last year? Martin Molenaar brought a different kind of steel to the fair, namely the Avisomo Growth Stations!

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