Belgium: Urban Crops opens largest automated plant factory in Europe
Yesterday saw the opening of one of the largest automated plant factories with artificial light in Europe. In Waregem, a city in the south of Belgium, start-up Urban Crops opened an impressive facility.
Urban Crops is the brainchild of the young Belgian student Maarten Vandecruys. Backed by the capital of the Belgian entrepreneur Frederic Bulcean, he saw his dream come true; creating an efficient and sustainable commercial farming model that enables the growth of food crops in any place in the world, in any climate and in any setting.
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Founding Urban Crops is right on time; vertical farming has become a well established industry on its own, especially in the U.S where you can find many start ups growing food crops like leafy greens and culinary herbs in a multi-layer setting. Inspired by this, and the many robotized plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL), which have been present in Asia for a number of years already, Urban Crops developed their own version of the concept. With the opening of their demonstration factory in Waregem, the group now has a place where investors can see what is possible with their technology. They hope to export the systems all over the world.
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