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Summary of the actions to be carried out during the period 2024-2027, once the LIFE FARMITANK project is completed
Summary of the project objectives, actions taken, results obtained and testimonials of the technical team.
This French trade show held from 16 to 18 January 2024 and Hassen Merdassi from FLORETTE and Cristian Nieves and Jesús Antonio Jerez from PARCITANK attended representing the LIFE FARMITANK project.
On November 15th Hassen Merdassi, representing the LIFE FARMITANK project, presented the vertical farming technology developed in the project.
Between October 9 and 11, 2023, the 4th edition of the vertical farming world congress was held at the Leonardo City hotel in London. There will be two days of conference sessions.
LIFE Farmitank attended VertiFarm international vertical farming event on 26–28 September, 2023 – Messe Dortmund, Germany.
The following publication includes the assessments made by Vicente Parra, Project manager of the project at PARCITANK, and Eva Petri, R+D+i researcher at CNTA, during the follow-up visit carried out by the project monitor.
On May 3, the first press release of the LIFE FARMITANK project is made, which summarizes the deadlines, participants and actions of the project and delves into the characteristics of the prototype installed in Florette.
On March 28 and 29, 2023, Florette Innova, representing Florette Ibérica, was present at the Open SINAI fair held at the BALUARTE Navarra Conference Center and Auditorium given visibility to the LIFE Farmitank project.
On February 27 the cultivation trials begin. During 1 year, production tests will be carried out with different varieties of lettuce, aromatic herbs and microgreens in the 312m2 of cultivation
On March 2023 we received the visit of the LIFE monitoring team to monitor the first half of the LIFE FARMITANK project. During this visit all the participants had the opportunity to visit the prototype.
In February 2023, the commissioning and start-up of the system were carried out. It marks the end of a project milestone and the start of cultivation trials.
Cedinox highlights the originality of the innovation developed by Parcitank, thanks to which the Farmitank project has been awarded the gold medal in the "Market Development" category by the "World Stainless Steel Association".
On 17 June 2022 excavation and earth moving works began at the Florette facilities located in the city of Milagro, where the Farmitank with 24 layers of crop will be installed.
Parcitank was attend the Greentech fair, held on June 14 to 16 in Amsterdam. More than 500 exhibitors from 121 countries gathered at this edition. At this fair, the latest
The World Stainless Steel Association (WSS) has awarded, in May 2022, the Farmitank project at the awards ceremony that annually distinguishes good practices and innovative ideas
On May 2022 Vicente Parra participated in the conference "INTELLIGENT AGRICULTURE: Crops with agrotechnology"
On September 8, the kick-off meeting of the LIFE FARMITANK project was held at Parcitank facilities.