AUSTIN, Texas (Oct. 5, 2022)—Fluence, a leading global provider of energy-efficient LED lighting solutions for commercial cannabis and food production, announced today its LED partnership with Bethesda, Maryland-based, CULTA, a vertically-integrated seed-to-sale cannabis company offering indoor- and outdoor-grown cannabis products.
As the first medicinal cannabis distributor to grow outdoors in Maryland, CULTA has led the charge in using science and innovative technology to cultivate best-in-class products for its patients. CULTA’s growing operation is split between indoor rooms and three acres of outdoor cropland at its Cambridge, Maryland, processing facility, which also houses the state’s first on-site culture lab for genetic cannabis tissue. The company delivers products to patients at its flagship Baltimore dispensary and many partner dispensaries throughout the state.
Demand for medical cannabis in Maryland has exploded since the state first legalized medical cannabis sales to registered patients in 2017, with a commensurate increase in state-issued grower, processor and dispensary licenses leading to more marketplace competition than ever. CULTA turned to Fluence LED technology to enhance its indoor operations and genetic library, cementing its status as an industry frontrunner in producing premium cannabis strains for patients and developing new and unique terpene combinations for high-quality medicine.
"Nous disposons désormais de Fluence SPYDRx, SPYDR 2x, SPYDR 2p et VYPR dans nos installations de Cambridge", a déclaré Jay Bouton, directeur principal de la culture chez CULTA. "La technologie LED nous a permis d'augmenter notre rendement dans chaque espace de culture en nous permettant d'aller à la verticale, et l'éclairage à haute intensité nous permet également de pousser nos plantes plus fort que jamais auparavant. Nous utilisons les LED Fluence pour augmenter la quantité de photosynthèse des plantes pendant les périodes de croissance maximale, ce qui nous a permis d'augmenter la puissance, les rendements et le succès de nos cultures.
Equipping the Cambridge facility’s cannabis grow rooms with Fluence LED technology has also supported CULTA’s sustainability goals by cutting down on its carbon footprint and removing demand from Maryland’s electricity grid. While CULTA continues to use legacy high-pressure sodium (HPS) lights in some cultivation spaces, each new indoor facility expansion has been outfitted with LED double-stack lighting.
“As we continue to grow our indoor operations, we will only purchase LED lighting,” said Tom Moylan, director of cultivation at CULTA. “Our energy efficiency is much higher and our thickest, fullest flowering room is using Fluence fixtures.”
The addition of full-spectrum LED lighting to its growing repertoire is already assisting CULTA in its mission to understand optimal environmental and nutritional needs for cannabis cultivation. This data will allow the company to produce new cultivars that can cater to diverse medical needs as well as optimize current processes to increase production and improve delivery of high-quality medicine to patients.
"Chez Fluence, nous sommes guidés par la science et animés par l'exploration et l'innovation de pointe", a déclaré David Cohen, PDG de Fluence. "Nous avons trouvé en CULTA un partenaire aux vues similaires et nous sommes ravis de collaborer à leur recherche et développement pour diversifier leur marque et leur portefeuille de produits afin de rechercher des solutions pour une clientèle croissante de patients médicaux."
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