Commercial vertical hydroponic lettuce racks in a Nordic production facility

Nordland, Norway / 66°N

Research inside production

Grow better systems.

GFN R&D AS develops hydroponic technology where it matters: inside live commercial growing environments.

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Vertical NFT racks

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Integrated disciplines

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Living lab workflow

What we connect

One R&D workflow, from biological question to working system.

We work with farms, agtech startups and research groups that need ideas tested against real production constraints—not only simulated in a lab.

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Industrial design

Racks, enclosures, interfaces and hardware designed around real operators.

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Experimental R&D

Structured trials across light, nutrients, climate and plant response.

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Automation & IoT

Sensors, dosing logic and controls built for dependable farm operation.

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Plant–system integration

One workflow joining biology, equipment, software and data.

Lettuce lighting trial on an instrumented NFT rack

Living lab / Selected work

Trials that account for the whole farm.

Every project is considered against crop response, operator workload, equipment reliability and production economics.

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Built for people moving between lab and farm.

Joint trials for researchers. Production-aware prototypes for startups. Practical upgrades for growers.

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Farms

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Startups

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Research groups

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