Plantagon International

Feeding the City. Building the future.

Agritechture

Agriculture

Combining the physical, biological, economic and social conditions for successful and productive agriculture solutions in urban environments

Technology

Applying existing technologies and developing new innovative ways to create efficient processes, systems and solutions for sustainable urban agriculture

Architecture

Developing esthetical and functional real estate solutions that integrate within the urban infrastructure

Agritechture

A unique way of combining urban agriculture, innovative technical solutions and architecture to meet the demand for efficient food production within cities.

Retro-fitting

Plantagon can change the use of empty areas of existing real estate, integrating sustainable food production.

  • Office buildings basements
  • Residential buildings basements or underground parking
  • Factories
  • Custom made Concepts

Conceptualization

Conceptualization is the first, and perhaps the most critical step in the product creation process. Here, Plantagon analyses the customer’s requirements and environmental conditions to develop the most appropriate solution. Textual and diagrammatic descriptions of the concept are produced and agreed with the customer.

This step includes:

  • Concept development
  • High level feasibility study and implementation plan
  • Visualizations

Partner: Sweco AB

Configuration

This step involves the translation of the conceptual information into logical definition and materialization of functions required to support the concept. This is accomplished with detailed design and technical planning and robust financial planning to ensure product feasibility. In this step, there will be collaboration between all stakeholders to achieve final agreement on the proposed product and ensure implementation is as efficient as possible. The final output is the complete blueprint for the proposed project, ready for implementation.

This step includes:

  • Detailed design
  • Technical optimization
  • Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Operating model
  • Project / Financial planning

Partner: Sweco AB

Implementation

This phase involves the construction of the actual project and heavily relies on the preparation and planning carried out in the previous phases. It is critical to align all technical partners to ensure Plantagon delivers the world-class product that is demanded from the customer.

This step includes:

  • Construction
  • Technical and operational setup
  • Establish distribution / supply chain channels
  • Training

Partners: Sweco AB (project manager), 3rd party local engineering consultants, 3rd party local construction company.

Operation

In this step, Plantagon will assemble a highly specialized team to operate the plant and ensure output is optimized throughout the lifetime of the project.

This step includes:

  • Day-to-day operations (supply chain, crop management and distribution)
  • Continuous improvement and quality control
  • Sales, Marketing and Administration

Partner: 3rd party facility management, property management and (when quality can be ensured) operations (in Sweden, plant operations are outsourced to Samhall AB, supervised by Plantagon)

Licensing

Plantagon’s long term objective is to license solutions to third party developers and operators.

The compensation may take the form of a lump sum royalty, royalty based on volume of production (running royalty) or right to use licensee’s technology (cross licensing).

Extension

Plantagon’s solutions can be added to existing buildings in the form of an extension.

  • A vertical façade installation
  • Rooftop greenhouse
  • Custom made Concepts

Conceptualization

Conceptualization is the first, and perhaps the most critical step in the product creation process. Here, Plantagon analyses the customer’s requirements and environmental conditions to develop the most appropriate solution. Textual and diagrammatic descriptions of the concept are produced and agreed with the customer.

This step includes:

  • Concept development
  • High level feasibility study and implementation plan
  • Visualizations

Partner: Sweco AB

Configuration

This step involves the translation of the conceptual information into logical definition and materialization of functions required to support the concept. This is accomplished with detailed design and technical planning and robust financial planning to ensure product feasibility. In this step, there will be collaboration between all stakeholders to achieve final agreement on the proposed product and ensure implementation is as efficient as possible. The final output is the complete blueprint for the proposed project, ready for implementation.

This step includes:

  • Detailed design
  • Technical optimization
  • Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Operating model
  • Project / Financial planning

Partner: Sweco AB

Implementation

This phase involves the construction of the actual project and heavily relies on the preparation and planning carried out in the previous phases. It is critical to align all technical partners to ensure Plantagon delivers the world-class product that is demanded from the customer.

This step includes:

  • Construction
  • Technical and operational setup
  • Establish distribution / supply chain channels
  • Training

Partners: Sweco AB (project manager), 3rd party local engineering consultants, 3rd party local construction company.

Operation

In this step, Plantagon will assemble a highly specialized team to operate the plant and ensure output is optimized throughout the lifetime of the project.

This step includes:

  • Day-to-day operations (supply chain, crop management and distribution)
  • Continuous improvement and quality control
  • Sales, Marketing and Administration

Partner: 3rd party facility management, property management and (when quality can be ensured) operations (in Sweden, plant operations are outsourced to Samhall AB, supervised by Plantagon)

Licensing

Plantagon’s long term objective is to license solutions to third party developers and operators.

The compensation may take the form of a lump sum royalty, royalty based on volume of production (running royalty) or right to use licensee’s technology (cross licensing).

New Building

Plantagon solutions can be used to create landmark buildings integrating the Vertical Food Production Line®, the Double-Skin façade technology and closed-loop energy systems.

  • Office buildings
  • Residential buildings
  • Hotels
  • Malls
  • Custom made Concepts for schools, hospitals, airports and mixed-use projects

Conceptualization

Conceptualization is the first, and perhaps the most critical step in the product creation process. Here, Plantagon analyses the customer’s requirements and environmental conditions to develop the most appropriate solution. Textual and diagrammatic descriptions of the concept are produced and agreed with the customer.

This step includes:

  • Concept development
  • High level feasibility study and implementation plan
  • Visualizations

Partner: Sweco AB

Configuration

This step involves the translation of the conceptual information into logical definition and materialization of functions required to support the concept. This is accomplished with detailed design and technical planning and robust financial planning to ensure product feasibility. In this step, there will be collaboration between all stakeholders to achieve final agreement on the proposed product and ensure implementation is as efficient as possible. The final output is the complete blueprint for the proposed project, ready for implementation.

This step includes:

  • Detailed design
  • Technical optimization
  • Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Operating model
  • Project / Financial planning

Partner: Sweco AB

Implementation

This phase involves the construction of the actual project and heavily relies on the preparation and planning carried out in the previous phases. It is critical to align all technical partners to ensure Plantagon delivers the world-class product that is demanded from the customer.

This step includes:

  • Construction
  • Technical and operational setup
  • Establish distribution / supply chain channels
  • Training

Partners: Sweco AB (project manager), 3rd party local engineering consultants, 3rd party local construction company.

Operation

In this step, Plantagon will assemble a highly specialized team to operate the plant and ensure output is optimized throughout the lifetime of the project.

This step includes:

  • Day-to-day operations (supply chain, crop management and distribution)
  • Continuous improvement and quality control
  • Sales, Marketing and Administration

Partner: 3rd party facility management, property management and (when quality can be ensured) operations (in Sweden, plant operations are outsourced to Samhall AB, supervised by Plantagon)

Licensing

Plantagon’s long term objective is to license solutions to third party developers and operators.

The compensation may take the form of a lump sum royalty, royalty based on volume of production (running royalty) or right to use licensee’s technology (cross licensing).

Symbiotic System

The Symbiotic System combines municipal infrastructure such as cooling, heating, biogas, waste, water and energy with food production.

  • Retrofitting
  • Extensions
  • New Buildings

Conceptualization

Conceptualization is the first, and perhaps the most critical step in the product creation process. Here, Plantagon analyses the customer’s requirements and environmental conditions to develop the most appropriate solution. Textual and diagrammatic descriptions of the concept are produced and agreed with the customer.

This step includes:

  • Concept development
  • High level feasibility study and implementation plan
  • Visualizations

Partner: Sweco AB

Configuration

This step involves the translation of the conceptual information into logical definition and materialization of functions required to support the concept. This is accomplished with detailed design and technical planning and robust financial planning to ensure product feasibility. In this step, there will be collaboration between all stakeholders to achieve final agreement on the proposed product and ensure implementation is as efficient as possible. The final output is the complete blueprint for the proposed project, ready for implementation.

This step includes:

  • Detailed design
  • Technical optimization
  • Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Operating model
  • Project / Financial planning

Partner: Sweco AB

Implementation

This phase involves the construction of the actual project and heavily relies on the preparation and planning carried out in the previous phases. It is critical to align all technical partners to ensure Plantagon delivers the world-class product that is demanded from the customer.

This step includes:

  • Construction
  • Technical and operational setup
  • Establish distribution / supply chain channels
  • Training

Partners: Sweco AB (project manager), 3rd party local engineering consultants, 3rd party local construction company.

Operation

In this step, Plantagon will assemble a highly specialized team to operate the plant and ensure output is optimized throughout the lifetime of the project.

This step includes:

  • Day-to-day operations (supply chain, crop management and distribution)
  • Continuous improvement and quality control
  • Sales, Marketing and Administration

Partner: 3rd party facility management, property management and (when quality can be ensured) operations (in Sweden, plant operations are outsourced to Samhall AB, supervised by Plantagon)

Licensing

Plantagon’s long term objective is to license solutions to third party developers and operators.

The compensation may take the form of a lump sum royalty, royalty based on volume of production (running royalty) or right to use licensee’s technology (cross licensing).

In a dense city environment access to land is extremely low and the price is extremely high. A viable solution for sustainable urban food production must produce maximum volume of food on a minimum land area whilst using minimal resources and generating minimum waste.

The FoodWall®

Beautiful and Edible

Cultivate beautiful food, produced completely without chemical pesticides and far beyond the standard we call ‘Organic’. Lets say there would be one in every tenth city-home in the world, it would save 235 Million tonnes of CO2 emissions – equivalent to 2.5% of the Global Millennium Development goal.

Underground

Low Rent     Low transport     High yield

In 2017 we are launching the first full-scale energy-smart underground facility in Stockholm, Sweden. During 2018 and 2019 we aim to establish nine additional facilities in office buildings in Stockholm and ten more in residential buildings in the rest of the country.

Retail Store

More Sales     Lower environmental impact

CoolFarm in/store is a closed and vertical system with a clean and climatized environment inside, perfect to grow premium seedlings, microgreens, leafy greens, herbs and flowers. It uses 90% less water than common agriculture and it does not need pesticides nor herbicides. It is modular, whereby each module starts with approximately 100 square meters of production area. Its modularity is applicable both vertically and horizontally, providing a quick return of investment.

The system has two columns of movable hydroponic growing beds, one vertical lift, a fertigation system, topnotch sensors to measure all the relevant variables for the plants, LED grow lights, an HVAC system, CoolFarm in/control system, an antechamber with positive differential pressure between the growing area and external environment to avoid contaminations. The system is intelligent, highly intuitive and its trays come to the operator by elevators when requested. It is ideal for growers, food distributors, grocery and supermarket chains, restaurants, hotels, cruises, research centers, medical centers and communities. in/store provides transparency, traceability and minimizes the food waste.

Container

Easy starting point

A high-density mobile farm built inside an insulated, recycled shipping container. It is mobile, agile and its open framework design means that each unit can be continually improved as technology advances.

Mall

Fresh Food     Sustainable Shopping

Increased footfalls, better tenant mix, attraction for high-end restaurants, new niche of stores for urban farming – huge positive environmental and social impact. Increased attractiveness for the city.

Vertical Farm

Fresh Food     Sustainable Building

Even a small-scale vertical farm right in the heart of the city sometimes makes sense. Concepts developed prove that urban food production sold directly to consumers make the same profit for the real-estate developer as office rentals.

World Food Building, Sweden

unit one
linköping
Since the spring of 2009 Tekniska Verken and Plantagon have been discussing the potential of integrating modern urban agriculture into the Kallersta district in the city of Linköping, 2 hours south of the Swedish capital Stockholm. Initially the purpose was to ascertain whether access to locally cultivated vegetables would help develop Tekniska Verken’s existing symbiotic systems – by utilising waste heat and carbon dioxide from the adjacent biogas facility; by using low value return heat from the Gärstadverken; and by using surplus biomass from the greenhouse in biogas production. One fundamental idea was to have the vertical greenhouse become a landmark for the smart systems developed by Linköping.
This marks the realization of the vision of creating functional sustainable solutions for the growing cities of today and tomorrow, where we can grow food in the cities in a resource-smart way, making use of the special conditions of the city.

The Plantagon greenhouse, developed together with Sweco, is designed for vertical agriculture of vegetables in urban areas. In cooperation with several partners, Plantagon plans to develop integrated solutions for energy, excess heat, waste, CO2 and water.

With this greenhouse we’re developing and fine-tuning the technical systems required for vertical farming in urban areas, together with several well-known Swedish partner companies. We want to gather expertise in the field, and our long-term objective is to create an international Center of Excellence for Urban Agriculture in Linköping.

Unit 1 Exhibition

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    Enter straight into the core of Plantagon technology for Urban industrial Vertical Farming!
    Experience our lead project in Linköping, two hours south of the Swedish capital Stockholm.
    Welcome to see the exhibition displayed at Plantagon HQ in Stockholm.      
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    Visit Exhibition

    With Google 360 View
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    World Food Building

    The WFB is our demonstration plant for the temperate zone, being built in Linköping, two hours south of Stockholm. It’s a 65 yard tall office building, producing /700 000 – /1 100 000 pounds of vegetables per year on the south façade. Play
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    Industrial Symbiosis

    Plantagon’s first demonstration plant is going to be built in Linköping. The building is a part of a clean tech cluster, and The demonstration plant is also a symbiotic system in itself. Play
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    Double Skin Facade

    One of the unique features with the Plantagon greenhouse is its façade. It makes it possible to maintain a controlled climate inside the greenhouse and is at the same time very energy efficient. Play
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    Pumice

    In a Plantagon greenhouse the plants grow in Pumice. The reasons for that are the fantastic properties when it comes to growing results and environmental effects. Play
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    Disinfection

    Pumice has the unique ability that it could be reused over and over again. To ensure that no harmful bacteria or spores follow the pumice to the next crop, it has to be disinfected by using a microwave oven. Play
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    uPot

    Plantagon has invented a transportation system for greenhouses that can increase the production per square meter. The invention consists of an expandable pot that allows spacing between plants in two dimensions. Play

Why?

70%
+3 billion
80%
+ Brazil
  • By 2050 up to 70% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers.
  • Until then human population will increase by about 3 billion, applying conservative estimates.
  • Over 80 % of land area suitable for farming is used for crop production
  • We will need further arable land the size of Brazil.

Currently, we use 80% of the arable land we have access to globally. In the future, without significant change in today’s food production, it is estimated that at least 10-15% of the global vegetable production must take place inside cities by 2050 in order to maintain our current growth and consumption patterns.

Due to these demographic and environmental factors, significant changes are taking place within the Agriculture sector. Trends are showing that urban areas are placing increasing strain on the food industry and associated resources such as water, energy and arable land. As a result, the global market is experiencing increased food price volatility and Governments around the world are taking drastic steps to mitigate the future risks and challenges associated with their development goals.

Based on our urbanization trends, cities are becoming the hubs for the biggest human settlements and feeding the world population is now becoming practically ‘’feeding the cities’’.

We need to integrate food production into city infrastructure

The world’s growing population is becoming increasingly urbanised where today’s urban population exceeds that of its rural population

1950 – 29%

Total population – 2 532 000 000

1980 – 39%

Total population – 4 453 000 000

2010 – 52%

Total population – 6 896 000 000

2030 – 60%

Total population – 8 321 000 000

2050 – 67%

Total population – 9 306 000 000

The projected world population distributed between urban and rural. UN statistic, 2011 revision

With almost 70% of the world expected to live in cities by 2050,
the strain on the food, energy and water system is increasing at an unsustainable rate.

Plantagon is a Companization – two different legal entities working for the same cause: To meet the upcoming food crisis. Join the association to influence from the inside without being an employee, a manager or an investor, but by supporting our mission.