UK-based cannabis cultivator Glass Pharms has welcomed one of the UK’s most experienced Glasshouse growers, Richard Lewis, to its team.
Lewis is joining Glass Pharms as managing director of its new state-of-the-art semi-closed greenhouse facility in Wiltshire, England.
Glass Pharms will be growing medical cannabis under a Schedule 1 licence for UK patients at the facility. With more than 38 years of glasshouse experience, Richard previously oversaw operations of the only other semi-closed facility in the UK in Suffolk.
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Lewis commented: “The Glass Pharms facility is a high-tech medicinal facility for growing a high-tech medicinal product. The semi-closed design gives us complete control of temperature and humidity in each of the growing zones”.
This will allow Glass Pharms to operate a continuous harvest cycle that will be able to produce a consistent and standardised product year-round. The design of the glasshouse also protects the valuable crop against the increasingly common temperature extremes found in the UK climate.
For a horticulture manager and MD who once had 50 hectares of glass under his supervision, it wasn’t the scale of the two hectare project that attracted Lewis
Lewis added: “The attraction is in joining Glass Pharms at a point where I can influence the build of the facility and the creation of the team and the culture that it will have, that is very exciting to me.”
Mark Heley, external relations at Glass Pharms, commented: “We’re building the most sophisticated cannabis cultivation facility ever built in the UK so it is a really good job that we have found someone who really knows what they’re doing to take the helm of that. Richard was previously overseeing the only other semi-closed greenhouse in the UK.
“The semi-closed greenhouse technology that we’re using is really sophisticated. It allows us to treat the incoming air and completely control the humidity and the atmosphere of the glass house. It is great that we managed Richard is joining because this is a highly technical area and he really is the most experienced person by a mile in the UK.”
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