It is the tech company Agtira and the food group Greenfood that are putting their bags together. The facility in Boden will be one of a total of ten around the country.
– The cucumbers can be sold immediately after being picked from the plant, are produced sustainably with minimal water consumption, says Ted Stenshed, CEO of the Greenfood Fresh Produce business area.
Therefore, the choice fell on Boden
That the choice falls on Boden is justified, among other things, by the municipality’s well-developed infrastructure and strategic position in Norrbotten. For Agtira, it will be the company’s northernmost outpost to date, previously there are facilities in Sundsvall and Skellefteå.
– The potential to recover residual heat from data centers and other industries is a huge and often unused resource, says Pontus Lamberg, operations manager at Agtira.
In the clip, Pontus Lamberg tells where the large facility will be located in Boden.
From server hall to restaurant
SVT has previously told about the Luleå company Containing Greens AB, which grows vegetables from a server hall’s waste heat. Something for which they were praised at a political conference in Brussels as recently as December.
In the clip below, you can see the vegetables’ journey from the server hall to the restaurant.