Common questions

Our Crop Research Centre is an operational site and we need to co-ordinate visits carefully. Visit our website to watch a pre-recorded tour of our site.

We offer end-to-end customer support, including initial consultancy and planning, deployment, and ongoing services to help customers grow consistent, quality crops.

Our customer journey typically starts with a tour of our Crop Research Facility, before establishing a Grower Model to help build a business plan and demonstrate economic viability.

We specialise in industrial-scale vertical farming solutions with Growth Towers, although offer a dedicated crop consultancy service to see if vertical farming is a good fit for you.

Our technology has a modular design, meaning that if a grower chooses to expand, new towers can simply be added to the site without any disruption to ongoing operations.

We have successfully grown over 250 different crops using our Growth Towers, including both seed-to-harvest and nursery plants.

Energy use in vertical farming depends on system design. At IGS, we engineer our technology to maximise performance across every kWh of electricity.

Vertical farming offers growers year-round production, reduced land and resource usage, pinpoint control over quality and consistency, and a growing environment free from pests and disease.

A GigaFarm is a single, co-ordinated ecosystem capable of growing over one billion plants annually.

IGS uses Total Controlled Environment Agriculture (TCEA) to completely control the growing environment, delivering growth recipes via a proprietary Cloud-based software system.

Vertical farming supports sectors such as commercial fresh produce, forestry, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical, and research, amongst others.

IGS is headquartered in Scotland, with offices in Edinburgh, Inverkeithing, and Invergowrie.

Vertical farming is key to the future of farming and will become a key part, however it will not take the place of traditional farming.

Vertical farming is the practice of producing food in vertically stacked layers where all environmental factors can be controlled to optimise plant growth.

IGS' approach focuses on scalable, modular systems, advanced environmental controls, high levels of automation, and ease of integration.