CEA Climate Systems: The Turnkey Fallacy
Too many years ago for me to admit, the investment in the equipment to heat and cool a greenhouse constituted around 20% of the budget. Those were the days of simplicity, when a unit heater, a fan-jet, and some cooling pads were all that most growers felt they needed. I know this, because I was […]
BioTherm Improves The Performance Of Their Popular Finned Heating Products
Cotati, Calif., July 25, 2022 – BioTherm’s engineers are tasked with constantly improving all the company’s products. They recently reviewed their tooling for their hydronic heat pipe products and realized that with a minor modification of adding small ridges to the surfaces, they could increase the performance by 6.7%-10.5% with only minor additional use of […]
Biotherm Introduces New Plug-and-Play Rootzone Heating Product, Upstart™
Cotati, Calif., March 1, 2022 – Growers now have a quick, easy way to provide the game-changing rootzone heating that plants prefer. BioTherm has expanded its hydronic heating product line to include Upstart™, a professional rootzone heating kit using Roll’N Grow® heating mats, and a locally acquired domestic hot water heater. By attaching the Upstart’s […]
Not Your Grandfather’s Boiler Room
“This is the first basic decision—and again pros and cons each way. Not generally realized: the fact that central boilers, in general, are about 10% more fuel-efficient than unit heaters. We hear often 75% for a boiler, 65% for unit heaters. Plus the fact that central boilers typically are quickly convertible from oil to gas to propane. These […]
“For some crops, our cooling systems have become a must, rather than an option.”
As featured on FloralDaily, written by Elvira Oosterbaan “There is now a new demand for using mechanical systems to cool and dehumidify,” says Jim Rearden, CEO of BioTherm. BioTherm offers air conditioning systems that safely cool and dehumidify the greenhouse, to reduce any disease or mold spores. Rearden explains the advantage of mechanical cooling systems, […]
BioTherm Expands to South America via Brazil
Cotati, Calif., May 17, 2021 – BioTherm, the leader of cultivation climate technologies, has established BioTherm LATAM in Brazil, a move expected to bolster the regions’ demand for efficient cultivation technologies in greenhouse and indoor growing environments. The new initiative comes at a time when the region’s greenhouse and indoor growing industries are experiencing remarkable […]
Water You Missing?
As featured in GPN Magazine Forty, even 30, years ago, we watered our plants, dropped in a little fertilizer, and hoped for the best. Perhaps it wasn’t quite that simple, but our main focus with irrigation was primarily making sure plants didn’t dry out. Today, greenhouse production is much more sophisticated, but what if you […]
Marching Forward…
It’s the first week of the first March in a brand new decade. And well, it has been just over a solid year of this Covid craziness pervading almost every aspect of our lives. We were all caught up in it – many of us dragged and screaming all along the way. Very few of […]
BioTherm’s Bottom Heat Carpet
Article featured in FloralDaily.com Les Serres Frank Zyromski, producers of 8 to 10 million cuttings annually, have found a way to maintain soil temperatures and reduce production time – even while temperatures dip as low as -34° C. “We save time with our crop – almost two weeks,” says Frank Zyromski, owner of the Rivière-Rouge, […]
BioTherm Celebrates 40 Years of Enhancing Plant Growth
A lifetime ago, BioTherm began with two teenagers and a startup – today we’re celebrating our life’s work, and our 40th anniversary. “Our first invention was MicroClimate™ heating which really took off and put our startup on the map,” says Jim Rearden, co-founder. In 1980, this was an extraordinary breakthrough and offered growers a simple […]
