Vertical Farming, Plant Factory Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2014 to 2020
Apr. 28 2014
Pages: 455
Language: English
Price: $3900
The 2014 study has 455 pages, 233 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the food supply for the world starts to adopt automated process. Grow lights have become more sophisticated and less expensive to run as solar and wind energy are adopted by greenhouses and plant factories.
Plant Factory (PF), vertical farming is a closed environment in which plants are grown under lights in shelves stacked one on another. All the elements needed for plant growth are artificially controlled, a process that removes detrimental influences such as pesticides and poor weather conditions. Traditional agriculture lives at the mercy of the elements. A plant factory is run based on science. Science is used to produce plants based on carefully controlled spectrum best for plant growth, to produce plants of a fixed quality, quantity, cost, time to harvest, and tuned to control the sale price.
Plant factory weed control is able to achieve crop-yield increases. Robot technology is deploying machines for weed control, promising to improve crop yields. Robots make the crops safer by eliminating or virtually eliminating herbicides. Downstream processing system solutions and robots achieve automation of process. Robots meet stringent hygiene and safety regulations, work tirelessly 24 hours a day, and relieve human workers of physically arduous tasks. Robots contribute to the freshness, variety and quality of food. Projects are ongoing.
High value crops are a target of agricultural robotic development. What could be tastier than a strawberry, perfectly formed, and perfectly ripened? New plant factories that grow fruits and vegetables on shelves indoors are able to improve the delivery of consistent quality food, and to implement efficiency in managing food production.
Strawberries are a high profit crop. A new generation of plant factories have just been born making it forever spring in the strawberry growing business. Strawberry Harvesters with the world's most advanced technology to give maximum performance to a plant factory. Harvesting robots can optimize the productivity of the farming business. Growers can get the best results in a berry farm using automated process. Automated picking collection systems improve labor productivity, give speed and agility to harvest operations.
Food factories produce organic vegetables. This represents a next step in the application of automated process to everyday life. Automated process for farming provides immediate help for food stores. Plant factories support farming practices that are not dependent on the climate. Food factories produce organic vegetables 24 hours a day. With the land available for farming depleting quickly, new types of farming are evolving.
PLANT FACTORIES MARKET DRIVING FORCES
- Demand for ability to grow food consistently
- Demand for ability to grow food locally
- Can grow food in warehouses
- Can grow food in the home
- Dedicating space that is efficient for producing food
- Fresh, sanitary food available consistently
- Food factories
- Ability to produce organic vegetables
- Ability to produce vegetables 24 hours a day
- Land available for farming depleting quickly
- New types of farming are evolving
- Growing of vegetables indoors all year round
A plant factory allows the growing of vegetables indoors all year round. It is a system that artificially creates the environment necessary for plants to grow by controlling the amount of culture solution, air, and light from light-emitting diodes (LED).
Because the amount of light, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration levels can be optimized without being affected by the weather, the growth rate of vegetables is two to four times faster than those grown in open-air fields, and yields are ten to twenty times higher.
Visible natural light has a spectrum different from grow lights. Visible light is measured by lux or energy. Plant factory grow lights are different. Grow lights provide artificial light used for plant growth. The spectrum of growth lights is tuned to the plant growing task. Plant light has photons from the blue to red (400-700 nm) part of the spectrum. This is called growth light.
Horticulture lamps address the role of light in the growth and development of plants. Plant growth is a function of photosynthesis. The plant growth lights work in three different ways:
- To provide all the light a plant needs to grow
- To supplement sunlight, especially in winter months when daylight hours are short
- To increase the length of the "day" in order to trigger specific growth and flowering
Because the amount of light, temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration levels can be optimized without being affected by the weather, the growth rate of vegetables is two to four times faster than those grown in open-air fields, and yields are ten to twenty times higher.
According to Susan Eustis, lead author of the study, "Plant factories use growth light to automate and control growing. The ability to grow food consistently, locally represents a major breakthrough for humanity." Grow lights permit people to grow food in warehouses and in the home, dedicating previously unused space to a purpose and in a manner that is efficient for producing food.
Plant factory market forecast analysis indicates that markets at $403 million in 2013 are anticipated to reach $1.97 billion by 2020. Growth is a result of the unmitigated march of automated process driven by the semiconductor industry, by microprocessors, and more directly by the need for food that is uncontaminated.
The ability to use solar energy to grow food using LED lights is a compelling new way to produce food. Using plant factory technology the containers can be put in homes and restaurants, apartments and greenhouses to grow food more efficiently and that is not contaminated with pesticides or other things that should not be on food. The ability to grow food in layers, 24 x 7 represents a major shift in the way food is provided to people. It means fresh food can be available year around at home and anyplace a person is.
Companies Profiled
Market Leaders
- Spread Co.
- Granpa
- Iwasaki Electric
- Nihon Advanced Agri Corporation
- Pacific Group
- Ryobi Holdings
- Philips Horticulture Lamps
- Everlight Electronics
Market Participants
- AeroFarms
- Aizufujikako Co., Ltd.
- Genesis Photonics (GPI)
- Gotham Greens
- Hon Hai
- Hydrofarm
- Inventec
- JGC / Granpa
- Jingpeng Solar Powered Plant Factory
- Natural Vitality
- Ozu Corporation
- Rockwool® Group
- Rambridge
- Ringdale ActiveLED®
- Tingyi International / Wei Chuan Foods
Check Out These Key Topics
- Plant Factory
- Green Technology
- Smarter Farming
- Smart Agriculture
- Beijing Plant Factory
- China Plant Factory
- Jingpeng Plant Factory
- Plant Verticsl Factory
- Indoor Farm
- Green Farming
- Indoor Vertical Farming
- Food
- Vertical Farm
- In-store Production/Consumption
- Urban Farming
- Solar Energy for Growing
- Hydroponics
- Indoor Vertical Farms
- Vertical Farming
- Local garden
- Building-Integrated Agriculture
- Grow Lights
- Moving Light
- Solar energy for food
- CEA
- Phalaenopsis
- Cermaic Metal Halide System
- High Pressure Sodium (HPS) System
- Plant Technology Advances
- Plant Factory Growing
- Plant Factory Server Controls
- Light Farming
- Green Flooring
- Vegetation
- Safe Food
- Organic Vegetables
- Plant Factory Vegetables
- Plant Factories
- Grow Light Plantations
PLANT FACTORY, VERTICAL FARMING EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Plant factory, vertical farming market driving forces
Plant factory vertical farming benefits
Harvested leafy vegetables
Plant factory spectral output and color temperature of light can be adjusted
Plant factory vertical farming challenges
Commitment to sustainable agriculture
Wheat, maize and rice
Efficiency of led grow lights
Plant factory vertical farming market shares
Plant factory market forecasts
1. PLANT FACTORY MARKET DESCRIPTION AND DYNAMICS
1.1 Plant Factories Allow Three-Dimensional Cultivation
1.2 High-Tech Urban Farming Solution: Vertical Farming
1.2.1 Plant Factory Self-Sufficient Farming
1.2.2 Vertical Farming
1.3 Plant Factory Definition
1.4 Container System Anytime, Healthy And Quality Seedling Production
1.4.1 Artificial Seedling Cultivation System Using A Container Provides Cost Performance
1.4.2 Compact Seedling Vegetable Cultivation System
1.5 Vertical Farming: Cities Could Be Food Producers
1.6 Photosynthesis
1.7 Light Reactions Increase Plant Yield
1.8 Japanese Plant Factory
1.8.1 Plant Factories
1.9 Organic Farming
1.9.1 Size Fan For Traditional Lighting System
1.9.2 LED Lighting System
1.10 Hydroponics
2 PLANT FACTORY, VERTICAL FARMING MARKET SHARES AND FORECASTS
2.1 Plant Factory, Vertical Farming Market Driving Forces
2.1.1 Plant Factory Vertical Farming Benefits
2.1.2 Harvested Leafy Vegetables
2.1.3 Plant Factory Spectral Output And Color Temperature Of Light Can Be Adjusted
2.1.4 Plant Factory Vertical Farming Challenges
2.1.5 Commitment To Sustainable Agriculture
2.1.6 Wheat, Maize And Rice
2.2 Plant Factory Vertical Farming Market Shares
2.2.1 Japanese Plant Factory
2.2.2 Japan Has the Most Plant-Factories
2.2.3 Taiwan Has The World's Most Advanced Plant-Factory Technologies
2.2.4 Taiwan Plant Factory
2.2.5 Plant Factory China Changchun Agricultural Expo Park
2.2.6 Ever Light Electronics Co. Ltd. Plant Farm
2.2.7 LED Manufacturer: Everlight Electronics
2.2.8 Spread Co
2.2.9 Han Hai Precision
2.2.10 Pacific Construction Company
2.2.11 Gotham Greens
2.2.12 AeroFarms
2.2.13 Granpa Co
2.2.14 Nihon Advanced Agri Life Science Business
2.2.15 Iwasaki Revenue
2.2.16 Iwasaki EYE Hortilux
2.2.17 Philips Plant Sensitivity For Colors Of Light
2.2.18 Philips Agrosun Gold
2.2.19 Best Green Life Vegetable Garden LED Kit for Indoor Garden
2.2.20 Efficiency of LED Grow Lights
2.3 Plant Factory Market Forecasts
2.3.1 Plant Factory Market Segment Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide,
2.3.2 Large Warehouse Plant Factory Market Segment Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide,
2.3.3 Home / Restaurant / Apartment Plant Factory Market Forecasts
2.3.4 Community, Grocery, Employee Garden Plant Factory Market Forecasts
2.3.5 Green House - Vertical Farm Plant Factory Market Forecasts
2.3.6 Dialysis Patients
2.3.7 Development Of Plant Factories Has Challenges
2.3.8 Plant Factories Are Not Meant To Replace Traditional Agriculture
2.3.9 Visible Natural Light Has A Spectrum For Growth
2.3.10 Growth Light Spectrum Positioning
2.4 Plant Factory Prices
2.5 Plant Factory Market Control Systems
2.5.1 Plant Factory Construction Market
2.5.2 Ubiquitous Environment Control Systems
2.5.3 HPS
2.5.4 MH
2.5.5 Operating Cost Per Hour For A Light
2.5.6 Plant Factory Control Systems Solutions
2.6 Plant Factory Regional Analysis
2.6.1 Growth Markets
2.6.2 Plant Factory Operations in Japan
2.6.3 Taiwan
2.6.4 New Plant factory Construction in Japan
3. PLANT FACTORY DESCRIPTION
3.1 Plant Factories Japan
3.2 Spread Co.
3.3 Grandpa Dome
3.3.1 Granpa Co Business Description
3.3.2 Granpa Co Plant Factory Features
3.3.3 JGC / Granpa Co., Ltd.
3.4 Nihon Advanced Agri Co.,Ltd
3.4.1 Nihon Advanced Agri Life Science Business
3.4.2 Nihon Advanced Agri Control of Light Quality
3.4.3 Nihon Advanced Agri Wave Length 'Wide-Band' LED Lamps
3.4.4 Nihon Advanced Agri HEFL
3.4.5 Nihon Advanced Agri Vegetable Cultivation System Using HEFL Lighting Units
3.4.6 Nihon Advanced Agri Efficient, Energy-Saving HEFL
3.4.7 Nihon Advanced Agri Cultivation Without Using Agrichemicals
3.4.8 Nihon Advanced Agri Scheduled Production For Stable Supply
3.4.9 Nihon Advanced Agri LED and HEFL Lighting System
3.5 Cosmo Farm Iwamizawa City, Hokkaido
3.6 Social Welfare Corporation Cupid-Fair Plant Factory-
3.7 Iwasaki EYE Hortilux
3.7.1 Iwasaki Electric, Ltd
3.8 Aizufujikako Co., Ltd
3.9 Ryobi Group
3.10 Plant Factories Taiwan
3.11 Ever Light Electronics Co. Ltd. Plant Farm
3.11.1 Everlight Electronics License To Develop IEDA Home Based Plant Factories
3.12 Genesis Photonics Company Taiwan Plant Factory
3.13 Han Hai Precision
3.13.1 Hon Hai Partners
3.14 Pacific Construction Company
3.15 Nano Bio Light Technology Co., Ltd.
3.16 Taiwan YaSai Lab Plant Factory Information Systems
3.17 Red Plum Plant Factory
3.18 J&D Restaurant Plant Factory Taiwan
3.19 Cal-Comp Biotech Plant Factory Taiwan
3.20 Ting-Mao Plant Factory Taiwan
3.21 Genesis Photonics Plant Farm
3.22 Wei Chuan Foods
3.22.1 Wei Chuan Foods Plant Factory Meeting Exhibit
3.23 Delta Electronics Inc Plant Factory in Taiwan
3.24 Epistar
3.25 Formosa Epitaxy
3.26 Chinese Plant Factories
3.27 Jingpeng Plant Factory
3.28 Korea
3.29 JiSung Global Co., Ltd
3.29.1 JiSung Global BioFarm Seedling Set LED Indoor House Plant Cultivator Module
3.30 Robotech
3.31 Insung Tech Co Ltd
3.32 Best Green Life Co., Ltd.
3.32.1 Best Green Life LED Hydroponic Cultivator
3.32.2 Best Green Life LED Hydroponic Cultivator
3.32.3 Best Green Life Vegetable Garden LED Kit for Indoor Garden
3.33 Gimpo EUM Plant Factory
3.34 Chinese Plant Factories
3.35 Beijing IEDA Protected Horticulture Home Based Plant Factory
3.35.1 Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture (IEDA) Home-Based Plant Factory
3.35.2 Changchun Agricultural Expo Park
3.36 India
3.37 US Plant Factories
3.38 Gotham Greens
3.38.1 Gotham Greens’ Integration with Whole Foods Market
3.39 AeroFarms
3.39.1 AeroFarms Aeroponics Grows Plants In A Mist
3.39.2 AeroFarms Cloth Root Medium
3.39.3 AeroFarms LED Lighting
3.39.4 AeroFarms Modularity
3.40 Green Spirit Farms (GSF) Michigan and Pennsylvania Vertical Farms
3.40.1 Pennsylvania Builds World's Largest Vertical Farm
3.40.2 Green Spirit Farms
3.41 Google Vertical Farms
3.42 Philips In the US
3.43 Alterrus Systems and subsidiary Local Garden Vancouver
3.44 The Greenhouse Vertical Farm in Florida
3.45 MIT CityFARM Indoor Farming
3.46 Farmed Here Vertical Farm In Bedford Park, Illinois
3.47 The Plant Vertical Farm In Illinois
3.48 Green Spirit Farms in New Buffalo, Michigan
3.49 Mega' Indoor Vertical Farm: Chicago Suburb
3.50 Vertical 'Pinkhouses Urban Farming
3.51 Purdue University
3.52 Caliber Biotherapeutics
3.53 Famgro Farms
3.54 Alegría Farm's Vertical Units
3.55 European Plant Factories
3.56 Philips and Greenhouse Grower Deliscious
3.56.1 Philips / Deliscious Case Study
3.56.2 Philips Vitro Plus Plant Factory
3.56.3 Philips Plant Factory From seedling to plant under LED lighting
3.56.4 Philips Horticulture Lamps
3.57 Netherlands Plant Factories
3.57 LEDHydroponics.co.uk
3.57.1 LEDHydroponics Benefits Of LED Grow Light Technology
3.57.2 Quantum LED Lights Growing Results
3.57.3 Quantum LED Light Absorption
4. PLANT FACTORY TECHNOLOGY
4.1 Plant Factory Technology Leverages Buildings
4.2 Urban Vertical Plant Farm Concept
4.2.1 Mithun Architecture Vision of Urban Farming
4.3 Vertical Farming Key Technologies
4.3.1 Production Line for Plants
4.3.2 Plant Factory Light Source Control System
4.3.3 Modular Plant Factories
4.3.4 AeroFarms Aeroponics Grows Plants In A Mist
4.4 Green Spirit Farms (GSF) Vertical Farms Example
4.5 White LED Light Provides Good Wave Length For Leafy Vegetables
4.6 Red-White LED Light Good For All Vegetables
4.7 Healthy Foods
4.7.1 Plant Factory Growing of Stalk of Tsuburina
4.7.2 Salt content in Tsuburina
4.7.3 Cultivation of Tsuburina
4.7.4 Tsuburina Ingredients Have Prophylactic Effects
4.7.5 Inositol Group of Foods
4.7.6 Beta-carotene
4.7.7 Vitamin K
4.7.8 Proline
4.7.9 Minerals
4.8 Blue-white LED Light Used For Healthy Forming And Increasing Vitamins
4.9 HELF Units Relation Between Lighting Distance vs PPF
5. AGRICULTURAL PLANT FACTORY COMPANY PROFILES
5.1 AeroFarms
5.2 Aizufujikako Co., Ltd.
5.2.1 Aizufujikako Business Description
5.2.2 Aizufujikako Features and Selling Points
5.3 Everlight Electronics
5.3.1 Everlight Electronics Revenue
5.4 Genesis Photonics (GPI)
5.4.1 Genesis Photonics Year 2014 Revenue
5.4.2 Genesis Photonics 3D COB
5.5 Gotham Greens
5.6 Granpa Co., Ltd.
5.6.1 Business description
5.6.2 Granpa Co Features
5.6.3 JGC / Granpa Co., Ltd.
5.7 Hon Hai
5.7.1 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. Ltd.
5.7.2 Hon Hai Precision Industry Ltd / Foxconn
5.7.3 Hon Hai Group Plant Factories
5.7.4 Hon Hai Partners
5.7.5 Hon Hai Establishes First LED Street Light Production Line in Guizhou
5.8 Hydrofarm
5.8.1 Hydrofarm Manufacturer Of Hydroponics Equipment And High-Intensity Grow Lights
5.8.2 Hydrofarm AgroSun Gold Halide
5.9 Inventec
5.10 Iwasaki Electric
5.10.1 Iwasaki Revenue
5.10.2 Iwasaki’s Quality Oriented Culture
5.10.3 Iwasaki EYE Hortilux
5.10.4 EYE Lighting International of North America
5.11 JGC
5.11.1 JGC / Granpa Co., Ltd.
5.12 Jingpeng Solar Powered Plant Factory
5.13 Natural Vitality
5.14 Nihon Advanced Agri Corporation
5.14.1 Nihon Advanced Agri Evolves Agriculture Into Cosmetics And Wellness
5.14.2 Nihon Advanced Agri
5.14.3 Business Description
5.14.4 Nihon Advanced Agri Features
5.14.5 Nihon Advanced Agri Plant Factory Business
5.15 Ozu Corporation
5.16 Philips Horticulture Lamps
5.16.1 Philips Lighting Positioning
5.16.2 Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands
5.16.3 Philips Enables Consumer Lifestyle
5.16.4 Philips Lighting
5.16.5 Philips Market Opportunity
5.16.6 Phiips Visicu
5.16.7 Philips Addresses Healthcare Landscape
5.16.8 Philips/Respironics Monitoring Solution Powered By Cinterion TC65i:
5.16.9 Royal Philips Revenue
5.16.10 Philips Healthcare Revenue
5.16.11 Philips Lighting Revenue
5.16.12 Philips Partnerships and Acquisitions
5.16.13 Philips Accelerate! Positioning
5.17 Rockwool Group
5.17.1 Grodan Rockwool Grow Blocks
5.18 Rambridge
5.19 Ringdale ActiveLED
5.20 Ryobi Holdings
5.20.1 Ryobi Holdings Co., Ltd. Company Information
5.20.2 Ryobi Holdings Business Description
5.20.3 Ryobi Holdings Features
5.21 Spread Co., Ltd. Company Information
5.21.1 Spread Co Business Description
5.21.2 Spread Co Features
5.22 Tingyi International / Wei Chuan Foods
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