High-tech farming company picks Loveland to set up headquarters
A Scottland-based farming company that produces high-tech equipment recently picked Loveland to set up its headquarters. The company is known to supply vertical farming technology for indoor growing.
What is #VerticalFarming? 🌱
— Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) (@IntelligentGS) September 4, 2022
The practice of producing food in vertically stacked layers, combining indoor farming techniques and total controlled-environment agriculture technology to give farmers complete control of all environmental factors to optimise plant growth. pic.twitter.com/Nn6vAO8JKL
Intelligent Growth Solutions picked the location of the Forge Campus to build its North American headquarters, which is the old Hewlett-Packard facility. The farming company expresses its modular, flexible and scalable growing methods with a powerful smart system for any environment.
The company says its systems are designed to eliminate the need for pesticides and reduce water consumption by recycling 90% of it.
IGS committed to adding 114 new jobs with salary averages ranging up to $99,000 per year.