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US (MA): Dutch company to set up 30,000 sq.ft. vertical farm

Polartec put its 559,868-square-foot, two-building site in Lawrence up for auction last spring. Among those expected to set up shop at the building (renamed IndusPAD) is Beyond Organic, a Dutch indoor agriculture company, which is working to open a 30,000-square-foot hydroponic vertical farming facility to produce a range of lettuces and herbs. Jitender Makkar, the building's owner, said he hopes the company will bring in machines in the next few months to start growing “clean” produce, without the chemicals typically found in fruits and vegetables imported to Merrimack Valley grocery stores, bodegas and restaurants from across the nation and world.

Read more at the Eagle-Tribune (Lisa Kashinsky)