After working on a number of high-profile living wall projects, we recognised that existing LED lighting features were falling short when it came to delivering the lush living walls promised.
After gathering feedback from a number of clients, Kroptek presents our new tailor-made living wall light fixture.
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From strawberries to food waste management, Kroptek engages in several high-profile research ventures across a number of projects and countries…
In our last blog post we detailed why, despite their proven advantages, some growers are still hesitant to transition to LEDs from HPS lights. If you weren’t convinced of the advantages of LEDs then, in this article, we talk numbers, detailing the difference between HPS vs. LED on your wallet.
Over the past decade, LED grow lights have become increasingly commercially viable. As a result, it is often suggested that what was traditionally used to light greenhouses and indoor farms, typically High-Pressure Sodium lights (HPS), are on their way out if not already a thing of the past. But to what extent is this really true?
To mark his first anniversary working with Kroptek, we caught up with Alban to speak about what his move into the horticultural industry was like, what it’s like working for an Agtech start-up, and the future of LBC and Kroptek in France.
With the Kroptek team recently back from a successful GreenTech Amsterdam we take a look at our experience of this year’s event and how it matched up with our expectations…
With this year’s GreenTech in Amsterdam under a week away, we look back on our experience last year and look forward to the exciting prospects this year will hold….
In this interview with our Lead Application Engineer, Antoine Charvin, we explore what it’s been like to move into horticultural lighting, what it’s like working for an Agtech start-up, and what he’s excited about going forward.
Discussions of regenerative farming often ignore CEA as a possible solution. But what is regenerative agriculture? and can recent efforts to promote Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) also further the aim to make agriculture more regenerative?
To mark Earth Day 2022 we talk through how an agricultural technology company such as us can do their bit to help address the climate crisis.