Rooftop greenhouses are becoming a more popular option for commercial growers interested in tapping into the “buy local” market for urban centers. They take up no additional land and are ideal for urban areas or small lots where a traditional greenhouse is not possible or practical.
There is a current trend that has caused more and more commercial greenhouse growers to switch their oil and propane powered boilers to biomass systems. The factors that are leading to such changes are simple:
Over the last decade manufacturers have been bombarded with new efficiency systems: Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous improvement, Kanban, the 5S System, Kaizen etc. This is especially true in North America where increased efficiencies are needed to compete against low labor off shore.
Benches are critically important to plant quality and labor costs.
Lets look at choices…
None of us like to think about emergency repairs – but our reality is that all greenhouse owners have spent a sleepless night or three ‘on the roof’… it is just the nature of our business that roofs designed to let in the most sunlight are by their nature a tad ‘delicate. So what is in your emergency kit for that late night call from the alarm?
