Your R&D at PlantLab

Prior to realizing a Plant Production Unit we lay down the specific characteristics of the crop in a Plant-ID in our PlantLab R&D facility at the University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool HAS Den Bosch) in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands. This Plant-ID forms the basis of the technical specifications of the Plant Production Unit and the specific Growing Recipes. After a comprehensive testing a Growing Recipe in our laboratory we scale up to a small practical scale of 50 m². Then we further refine the specs and the cultivation formula in an interaction between R&D and first practice scale. Only once we are convinced of the economical feasibility and practical performance of Growing Recipe we do scale up to practice scale of Plant Production Units.

Also after realizing a Plant Production Unit PlantLab continues to optimize the Growing Recipes. As far as we are concerned this is an ongoing process. We always follow the same pattern. We improve the Growing Recipe on a laboratory scale, for example due to the arrival of new varieties or changing demands of the market. At the 50 m² scale we then carefully test and return to the laboratory again, et cetera. Only if changes actually prove to be improvements, we implemented them into the a new Growing Recipe.