Capsum and iFarm Launch Sustainable Vertical Farming R&D Challenge to Create Modern Cosmetics
Marseille (France), Helsinki (Finland)
Scientific cosmetics producer, Capsum (France), and agricultural expertise firm, iFarm (Finland) have signed a cooperation settlement and are set to launch a cutting-edge farm-laboratory to reinforce the creation of modern magnificence merchandise.
As a part of a pilot challenge, a small farm-laboratory utilizing iFarm applied sciences might be constructed inside the prevailing R&D web site at Capsum’s plant in Marseille. The main microfluidics cosmetics producer solely makes use of pure components to create its merchandise and can consider the potential of large-scale cultivation of crops in a closed atmosphere as an environmentally sustainable, secure and predictable rising methodology.
The on-site set up of an iFarm laboratory will allow scientists to domesticate crops free from pesticides and different dangerous chemical compounds and facilitate the year-round manufacturing of high-quality microfluidic cosmetics components.
The Marseille farm-laboratory will consist of 4 rooms: an engineering room, which is able to home an automation management system, and three rising rooms. Plant development and technical controls on the scientific mini-farm might be monitored utilizing iFarm Growtune software program.
Alexey Novokreshchenko, iFarm Automation Director:
“We’re excited to create a common farm-laboratory for Capsum, the place it will likely be potential to develop virtually something – microgreens, flowers, crops – appropriate for the manufacturing of microfluidic cosmetics. The farm-laboratory may even present the perfect atmosphere for creating, testing and experimenting with new ‘plant development recipes’, out there by way of the iFarm Growtune IT platform.”
Now, iFarm specialists are making ready tools for the engineering room, with the vertical buildings and technical tools for the rising rooms to be delivered to the Capsum plant within the first quarter of 2022.
Anthony Briot, COO Capsum:
“Capsum makes use of solely pure components to create its magnificence merchandise. The corporate plans to construct its personal industrial vertical farm in an effort to produce environmentally pleasant uncooked supplies all 12 months spherical.”
In addition to rising plant components for its cosmetics, Capsum will use the farm-laboratory at Marseille as an R&D platform. Right here, Capsum will develop and experiment with new ‘plant development recipes’ for its revolutionary skincare merchandise.
Kirill Zelenski, CEO of iFarm Europe:
“We’re more than happy to launch our partnership with Capsum, which is understood for its modern strategy to cosmetics manufacturing. Our staff believes that vertical cultivation applied sciences are precisely what’s wanted in an trade the place the standard and environmental impression of components is extraordinarily vital. iFarm is happy to help Capsum on this groundbreaking endeavour and appears ahead to a satisfying and thrilling partnership.”
Firm Info
About Capsum (France): Capsum is a big analysis and manufacturing start-up based in 2008 in Marseille (France). The important thing course of the corporate is the analysis, improvement and manufacturing of microfluidic cosmetics for skincare. Microfluidics is a department of science that research fluid administration at a microscopic stage. Due to this revolutionary expertise, Capsum creates cosmetics which can be extremely penetrating and, due to this fact, more practical than typical cosmetics.
About iFarm (Finland): iFarm is a world expertise improvement firm specialising in options, platforms and modern tech for plant development and agricultural manufacturing in a managed atmosphere. Based in 2017 with headquarters in Helsinki (Finland), iFarm has operational and in-construction farms in Europe, the Center East, Russia and the CIS, with a complete cultivation space of greater than 18,000m2. One of many firm’s merchandise is Growtune, a cloud-based IT platform that gives automated local weather management to optimize rising circumstances for quick and plentiful crop maturation on vertical farms.
iFarm applied sciences are acknowledged worldwide: the challenge is included within the TOP 500 meals startups of the world and is a member of the EIT Meals Accelerator Community; iFarm additionally turned one of the best agricultural startup in Europe in The Europas Awards 2020. In 2021, iFarm acquired a Photo voltaic Impulse Environment friendly Answer label that certifies environment-friendly applied sciences which have confirmed to be worthwhile and economically viable.
