Lucas Greenhouses, BioTherm work together on new systems

Added on 15 December 2023

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Lucas Greenhouses, BioTherm work together on new systems

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Lucas Greenhouses in New Jersey has been building with BioTherm’s climate technologies since 1980. In the 1980s, it started out with BioTherm heat in its first 9,000 square feet, and now it has more than 2 million square feet of heated space. In 2022, Lucas rooted more than 55 million cuttings, and without root zone heating, it couldn’t even come close to that amount.

From BioTherm’s perspective, the company has been a part of almost every Lucas expansion over the last 40+ years. Since the 90s, it has been providing heated flood floors along with top heat/snowmelt for Lucas’ expansions. When it came time to design the latest expansion of 200,000+ square feet, BioTherm went with what has been successful in the past.

This year, Lucas and BioTherm worked on a new approach to flood floor design: the ability to flood two floors at a time and install two separate drains. This gives them the ability to choose where they drain the irrigation water, either back into the water tank or sent to be treated and cleaned. BioTherm designed a special flood floor system with high-speed flood/drain.

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