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What are your Fluence's strengths?
Since the company’s earliest days, its
mission has been to improve
the interaction between light and
life to yield a healthier and more
sustainable world.
Ask anyone at the company: Fluence
doesn’t just manufacture lights.
Fluence delivers state-of-the-art,
science-backed solutions and facility
design best practices backed by an
impressive pedigree of cultivation
expertise. Fluence cultivation experts
partner directly with growers to
optimize facilities and ensure success
not only when deploying LED systems,
but in building a sustainable
operation that delivers high-quality
products to customers.
Whether serving customers like Bowery
Farming — they grow fresh produce
in areas that otherwise wouldn’t have
access — or the hundreds of cannabis
cultivators serving patients with a
variety of ailments throughout the world,
Fluence designs lighting solutions that
simply make the world better.
What are some of
your proudest moments?
Some of our proudest moments include:
• Establishing Fluence’s annual
PHOTOx Summit. PHOTOx is an
intimate forum through which a
community of growers, researchers,
and technologists can foster
connections, share knowledge
and experiences, engage with
Fluence experts and advocates,
and ultimately advance our
understanding of the interaction
between light and life. PHOTOx
draws the best and brightest
minds in commercial horticulture
from around the world to engage
in day-long knowledge sharing
sessions. Notable summit guests
include leading researchers in
photobiology, sensory science,
medicinal cannabis applications,
facility design and engineering,
and more.
• The DesignLights Consortium has
certified more Fluence fixtures than
any other horticultural lighting
provider on the market.
• Helping growers achieve more
than $7 million in savings via
utility incentives throughout the
U.S, . and Canada.
• Adding critical expertise in
cannabis cultivation and research
to the Fluence team, including Dave
Hawley, Ph.D., as Fluence’s senior
scientist, and Sean Sangster —
former cultivation manager for
MedMen and head grower for Costa
Farms — as a project manager
within Fluence’s horticulture
services team.
• Growing Fluence’s senior
leadership team to include several
of the world’s foremost horticulture
experts, including Ron DeKok and
Abhay Thosar.
• Establishing critical research
relationships with leading global
horticulture scientists, including
Wageningen University & Research.
• Watching Fluence solutions and its
growers win acclaimed awards for
programs such as the Cultivation
Classic, the Canadian Cannabis
Awards, LEDs Magazine’s Sapphire
Awards, and more.
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