IndoorFarming/PlantFactory

SPREAD (Japan company) has begun construction of the world’s first large-scale Vegetable Factory (Plantfactory/Indoor farming) that is fully automated from seeding to harvest and capable of producing 30,000 heads of lettuce per day as the second phase for the business development of SPREAD’s vertical farm using artificial lighting called a Vege...

Bright green lettuce leaves are ready for picking, while ripe red tomatoes bow their stalks. Natural produce as they seem to be, the lettuce is grown inside an artificially lit plant factory, while the tomatoes are cultivated inside a solar plant factory, both operated by Chiba University. Chiba University is a pioneer in this area, […]

Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura turned a former Sony Corporation semiconductor factory into the world’s largest indoor farm illuminated by LEDs.

Yamaguchi University, MOT Research Institute, Ltd. and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Concludes a Comprehensive Partnership Agreement on a Plant Factory.

Showa Denko (SDK) (TOKYO: 4004) announces that its LED-based plant factory (indoor farming) unit named “SHIGYO® Unit” has been adopted in a large-scale plant factory in Tendo City, Yamagata Prefecture.

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will add a new dimension to its healthcare business by starting production of pesticide-free, long-life vegetables in a closed-type plant factory that operates under almost aseptic conditions.

Tomigusuku City(Okinawa prefecture, Japan) is establishing a small-size plantfactory(indoor farming) in the city hall lobby.

ORIX Real Estate, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation, announced that it will establish an artificial light plant factory to cultivate loose-leaf lettuce in Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture.