Signify, has provided Great Lakes Greenhouses, North America's largest grower, shipper, and packer of hydroponic cucumbers, with the Philips GreenPower LED toplighting compact and Philips GreenPower toplighting linear fixtures, combined with the Philips GrowWise Control Systems (GWCS). This enables Great Lakes Greenhouses to manage energy expenditures using custom light recipes while also improving their cucumber production.
Great Lakes Greenhouses, spanning over 100 acres in Leamington, Ontario, initially engaged with the Philips horticulture team in 2021 for a sizeable installation of Philips GreenPower LED interlighting in several ranges of cucumber production. Shortly thereafter, the Great Lakes team started evaluating opportunities to install additional supplemental lighting.
Mark Reimer, Research and Business Development Manager, explained: "we started looking for a lighting fixture that supported our goal of ensuring the health of our crop while offering maximum efficiency and control. This brought us to the dimmable toplighting compact paired with the GrowWise Control."
The GrowWise Control Systems, first introduced in 2018, enables users to easily create and run custom light recipes using Philips horticulture dimmable LED modules including the toplighting compact, linear, force and production module. With custom light recipes, growers can steer specific plant characteristics, such as compactness, color intensity, branch development and flowering while driving energy efficiency. GWCS is a robust and complex system with a high level of functionality.
For more information:
Signify
Daniele Damoiseaux, Global Marcom Manager Horticulture
[email protected]
www.philips.com/horti