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Urban Crop Solutions, globally renowned for its innovative approaches to vertical farming, has made a remarkable contribution to the food industry by providing its advanced Indoor Vertical Farming solution to Aixponic in Germany. Aixponic, a leading company in aquaponic technology, has successfully cultivated saltwater plants for the food industry using this groundbreaking technology.

An indoor farming solution designed, manufactured, and installed in Saudi Arabia by Urban Crop Solutions once again demonstrated its quality and functionality through its purpose-built climate system. Despite extreme temperatures of +50°C measured in the shade, the innovative climate system performs remarkably well. With increasing awareness of climate change and the limited availability of natural […]

The UCS research centre is operated by the team of experienced plant scientists and the company’s Chief Science Officer. The trials carried out at the centre have already been used across numerous sectors, and the company’s clients range from the food & nutrition to biotech & life sciences sectors.

AlfaTech will become the integration and service partner for the products of Urban Crop Solutions in the South East Asian region. After an already first successful joint project for the National University of Singapore, both technology companies will now work together for indoor vertical farming projects.

UCS has been named the fourth Most Innovative company in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa by Fast Company. The only indoor farming company to be named in this category, it stood out for the launch of PharmSpee – a platform enabling the use of plants for the production of ingredients for the biopharmaceutical, life science, cosmetics, or feed industry.

In a further extension of their service offering, Urban Crop Solutions has launched an e-shop to better support their existing, and new customers in the day-to-day as well as long-term operation of their indoor farming businesses. Everything that an operator needs – from seeds and substrates to sensors and container parts – can be ordered via the e-shop.

Urban Crop Solutions (UCS) and Dr Rudi Pauwels will set up a research centre on indoor farming applications in southern Spain. Research at the centre will focus on the impact of climate change on crops in Southern Europe, while working on optimising the nutrient content. For UCS, this new research centre complements its existing research centre in Belgium

Leading vertical farming companies have committed to a Vertical Farming Identity Statement and Industry Manifesto. An unprecedented industry momentum to contribute jointly to a sustainable transformation of global food systems. They highlight the impact and contribution the industry intends to make to transform current food systems and help to solve one of humanity’s toughest challenges of providing food for a growing population in a sustainable, circular way.

Urban Crop Solutions and the Provincial Technical Institute (PTI) in Kortrijk have agreed on a collaboration whereby an indoor farm supplied by UCS will be used for training purposes by PTI Kortrijk to train students with the skills required to become indoor farmers. Starting immediately, students will be taught how to operate an indoor farm and will carry out internships at both the UCS facility, as well as those of their customers.

Urban Crop Solutions has once again been named the ‘Indoor Farming Company of the Year’ by the 3rd annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards, in another endorsement of their end-to-end, and total solution offering. The awards named several products, solutions, and companies within the agricultural technology market, as winners of awards in multiple categories after a rigorous process of review, scoring, and analysis.