HINTON LAB/Verdant Tower · Industrial

Vertical farms, engineered turnkey.

Verdant Tower is what happens when the household loop and the commercial loop are run at hectare scale. Civil-to-OS engineering for builds from 1,000 to 60,000 m² — same brain, fleet-wide model, dedicated agronomist.

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Vertical farms,
Build size
1k–60k m²
Lead time
9–14 mo
Towers live
3
In design
5
/ The proposition

Industrial output, without the fixed costs of one.

A traditional indoor farm at the 10,000 m² class is a real estate play with a side-business in lettuce. Verdant Tower flips that: civil + mechanical is a one-time pre-built spend, while the recurring economics come from a fleet-wide brain that compounds across every farm we ship. Our customers don't operate Towers. We operate Towers; our customers buy the produce, or rent the offtake. Either way the books work.

/ OFFTAKE MODELS
  • Build-to-own. We engineer + commission; you operate. Most common with grocer customers.
  • Offtake contract. We build and operate; you buy at a fixed-formula $/kg. Common with foodservice.
  • Joint venture. Land + capex from customer, IP + ops from us. Used for sovereign builds.
/ Stack

What we ship on a Tower project.

  1. Civil

    Slab loading, drainage, HVAC ducting, electrical service — drawings stamped by our partner engineers within 3 weeks of LOI.

  2. Mechanical

    Pre-built rack modules, robotic AGV channels, harvest conveyors, dispatch bay. Shipped from our Rotterdam plant.

  3. Climate

    Energy-recovery loop: transpiration heat is recaptured and used to pre-heat make-up air. 0.3 kWh/kg leafy greens, network record.

  4. Vision & control

    Verdant OS in the loop from day one. Fleet-wide model federation; this farm contributes to and benefits from every other Tower.

  5. Operations

    Dedicated agronomist on-site for the first 90 days. SRE on shared on-call rotation with our engineering team.

/ Operating Towers

Three live, five in design.

Site
Status
Area
Output
Offtake
Rotterdam-1
Netherlands
12,400 m²
1,000 t / yr
Albert Heijn To Go
Singapore-1
Punggol
8,200 m²
640 t / yr
NTUC FairPrice
Detroit-1
USA · pilot
3,800 m²
260 t / yr
City of Detroit · DTE Energy
Paris-1
France · 2026 Q4
16,000 m² (planned)
1,300 t / yr (planned)
Carrefour Bio
/ Economics

The numbers audited by E&Y this year.

0.3 kWh/kg
Energy intensity, network record for leafy greens
0.31 kg
CO₂e per kg of produce, all-in
98%
Water reclaimed across the loop
$1.10/kg
Median COGS at the 12,000 m² build size
/ NEXT STEP

A first call, a feasibility study, then a proposal.

Tower projects start with a 30-minute call. If the geography and offtake math add up, we run a six-week feasibility study for $40k, fully credited to capex if you proceed.

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