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22 March 2022

Een bezoek aan de toekomst van de voedselvoorziening | Interview met Eelco Ockers

Eelco Ockers, CEO van PlantLab, vertelt in een interview met Yilmaz Bitter van M&A over de toekomstige stappen van de scale-up.

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21 February 2022

Indoor farming pioneer PlantLab receives €50 million growth capital

Dutch indoor farming pioneer PlantLab has received an injection of €50 million in a new funding round led by De Hoge Dennen Capital. The funds will be used to open more production sites outside the Netherlands, in North America, and Europe.

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7 February 2022

Eelco Ockers appointed new CEO of indoor farming pioneer PlantLab

On 1 February, Eelco Ockers took over as new CEO of PlantLab, the Dutch pioneer of indoor farming. He took over from Michiel Peters, who was closely involved in the company for the last five years, the last two of which as CEO.

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11 November 2021

PlantLab wins Challenger50 as the most challenging company of 2021

PlantLab has won MT/Sprout's Challenger50 of 2021. The company may thus call itself the biggest market challenger of the year.

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22 October 2021

PlantLab and Syngenta sign worldwide license agreement

PlantLab, the Dutch indoor farming pioneer, has signed a worldwide license agreement with Syngenta, the international market leader in crop protection.

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25 August 2021

PlantLab quadruples production area in existing location

PlantLab, the pioneer in indoor farming, is significantly expanding its Dutch production location.

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11 August 2021

PlantLab granted second patent for indoor farming in the US

PlantLab has further strengthened its patent portfolio as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted the second patent in the United States on August 10.

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7 December 2020

PlantLab launches first production site in USA

Annual harvest of 420,000 kilos for Indianapolis residents.

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29 July 2020

PlantLab granted US patent for indoor farming

The Dutch company PlantLab was granted its patent for indoor farming technology in the US, bringing the total number of countries where the patent has been granted to 74.

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22 July 2020

PlantLab raises € 20 million in first external investment round

Dutch scale-up PlantLab has raised a first external investment of € 20 million from De Hoge Dennen Capital.

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31 January 2019

Van Gelder fruits & vegetables and PlantLab establish indoor farming collaboration

Foodservice supplier Van Gelder and indoor farming specialist PlantLab have entered into a partnership to produce various types of fresh vegetables in PlantLab’s fully controlled Plant Production Units (PPUs).

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3 October 2017

A visit to PlantLab: Vertical farming's best kept secret?

Stacked layers with leafy greens in fully controlled units; some call it the future of farming. While opinions are divided if all that fancy lettuce will indeed solve world hunger, at PlantLab they are convinced that controlled environment agriculture can introduce groundshaking revolutions to our food system. But how viable is this relatively new industry? And what does a patent have to do with it? Highest time to figure out and pay a visit to PlantLab ourselves.

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