Illumitex partners Indoor Harvest to drive global indoor agriculture uptake
Together, Illumitex and Indoor Harvest will engage in R&D and coordinated business development activities to offer a complete hardware solution for the indoor farming industry, all at the bleeding edge of agricultural science.
Illumitex designs and builds LED light fixtures for controlled environment agriculture, offering energy-efficient lighting specifically tuned to the photosynthetic and photomorphogenic needs of plants.
Houston based Indoor Harvest is a design-build and engineering firm with patent-pending modular framing, integrated HVAC systems and high pressure aeroponics fixtures for use in urban controlled environment agriculture and building-integrated agriculture.
Indoor Harvest produces a Vertical Farm Racking System as well as a Modular Aeroponic System, both of which utilize Illumitex Eclipse LED grow lights. The Eclipse is available in a number of Illumitex’s custom spectra, each developed to elicit specific plant responses. The Eclipse series was designed specifically for vertical farming applications, and is the ideal fit for Indoor Harvest’s multi-layer grow systems.
“Upon evaluating several LED offerings during our research and development, we found the Illumitex LEDs provided better light intensity and even canopy coverage over other brands,” said Indoor Harvest CEO Chad Sykes. “We also found the Illumitex lights were considerably less expensive to install and integrate into our designs.”
Using Illumitex LED grow lights, Indoor Harvest is currently working with the city of Pasadena, Texas, on developing a Community Located Agriculture Research campus, as well as with Canopy Growth, the leading producer of medical marijuana in Canada, and on numerous other projects.
“When you’re building a large vertical farm, there can be thousands of LED fixtures and the labor to install those fixtures can add up quickly. The Illumitex lights were obviously designed with ease of installation in mind,” said Sykes. “Also, the Illumitex fixtures are IP66 rated and will meet or exceed most code requirements, making them our go-to fixture for design-build projects.”
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