IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute is an independent, non-profit research organization established by the Swedish government and industry in 1966. The institute comprises Sweden's largest group of environmental experts for applied environmental research and consultancy services. IVL currently hosts the Sustainable Urban Food Lab, which leads a number of research projects working with understanding, improving, and assessing the sustainability and viability of urban and vertical farming systems. The SUF Lab bridges knowledge from the urban agriculture, horticulture, industrial ecology, circular economy, and sustainability assessment fields to promote sustainable food production and consumption systems in urban environments.
S.A.I.S. Sementi is an Italian seed company, established in Cesena in 1941 and committed in the breeding, selection, production and marketing of vegetable and herbs seeds, with a specialized focus on species characteristic of the mediterranean tradition, especially for indeterminate tomato, sweet and hot pepper, eggplant and basil. Reliability, research and innovation are the perfect combination in S.A.I.S., which has all the phases of its work cycle, starting from the activity of breeding and research and production, through the activity of selection and packaging, up to marketing, sales and distribution.
Since 1984, PP Systems has been supplying quality, rugged, and reliable instrumentation to customers throughout the world for high-level research. PP Systems today is a global leader in the innovative design and manufacture of instrumentation for the measurement of photosynthesis, soil respiration, chlorophyll fluorescence, and CO2/H2O gas analysis. Customers come from a wide variety of scientific disciplines including agronomy, horticulture, biology, botany, crop and soil sciences, forestry, ecology, meteorology, oceanography, and plant physiology. Instruments produced by PP Systems are used in more than 100 countries.