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

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
This step includes:
- Concept development
- High level feasibility study and implementation plan
- Visualizations
Partner: Sweco AB
This step includes:
- Detailed design
- Technical optimization
- Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Operating model
- Project / Financial planning
Partner: Sweco AB
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.
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)
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
This step includes:
- Concept development
- High level feasibility study and implementation plan
- Visualizations
Partner: Sweco AB
This step includes:
- Detailed design
- Technical optimization
- Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Operating model
- Project / Financial planning
Partner: Sweco AB
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.
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)
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
This step includes:
- Concept development
- High level feasibility study and implementation plan
- Visualizations
Partner: Sweco AB
This step includes:
- Detailed design
- Technical optimization
- Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Operating model
- Project / Financial planning
Partner: Sweco AB
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.
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)
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
This step includes:
- Concept development
- High level feasibility study and implementation plan
- Visualizations
Partner: Sweco AB
This step includes:
- Detailed design
- Technical optimization
- Architectural Plans / Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Operating model
- Project / Financial planning
Partner: Sweco AB
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.
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)
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).
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


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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Experience our lead project in Linköping, two hours south of the Swedish capital Stockholm.
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Visit Exhibition
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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?
- 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
Total population – 2 532 000 000
Total population – 4 453 000 000
Total population – 6 896 000 000
Total population – 8 321 000 000
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.
