CO2 GRO Inc (TSX-V:GROW, OTCQB:BLONF) has announced a commercial feasibility of a CO2 Delivery Solutions system in an Arizona greenhouse that will operate for up to one year. The Toronto-based company said the name of the client will remain confidential for competitive reasons.
The commercial feasibility will be conducted utilizing an existing fogging system used to manage humidity levels due to Arizona's arid climate. The CO2 Delivery Solutions system will be integrated into the existing fogging system.
The primary focus of the commercial feasibility is to assess CO2 Delivery Solutions'™ benefits of increased plant production, suppression of microbial pathogens and CO2 usage.
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CO2 GRO noted that Arizona has the second-largest US greenhouse footprint after California with close to 15 million square feet of vegetable greenhouses.
Nearly all of Arizona's greenhouses have to manage the same problem of close to year-round heat venting. This venting results in a chronic lack of sufficient CO2 levels to augment the excellent year-round sunlight available. The necessity of year-round heat venting in Arizona makes it virtually impossible to enhance plant production by up to 30%, which can be achieved in greenhouses located in temperate climates that have the ability to increase CO2 levels in the grow rooms above ambient conditions for at least half the year.
"We are very excited to initiate our first CO2 Delivery Solution commercial feasibility in the state of Arizona,” Vice President of Sales & Strategic Alliances Aaron Archibald said in a statement.
“With year-round sunshine available to greenhouses in Arizona, CO2 becomes the only limiting factor to increasing plant production.
“We believe this commercial feasibility will clearly demonstrate to the Arizona greenhouse market how they can achieve increased production and profitability using our CO2 Delivery Solutions technology."
CO2 GRO's proprietary CO2 Delivery Solutions technology is revolutionizing the global 600 billion square foot protected agriculture industry. It creates a saturated CO2 solution that when misted onto plants provides growers that cannot gas with CO2 the opportunity to increase plant yields by up to 30% and profits by up to 100%. Applying saturated CO2 also suppressed the development of pathogens such as E.coli and powdery mildew, helping to reduce crop losses.
CO2 Delivery Solutions is protected by a suite of patents and patents pending. The company's management is rapidly expanding its international marketing partner relationships into the EU, the UK, Mexico, South Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia and Latin America as well as in its North American base.
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