Toshiba introduced a line of salad...

Articles products companies engaged in electronics, usually there is a section with technical specifications. Not this time.

Since 1938, Toshiba produces almost all types of equipment from consumer electronics, communications and medical equipment to lighting and office equipment. Over the decades, the company watched as once-innovative technologies become redundant, closed some production and opened a new era of devices.

But the Toshiba factory, located in Yokosuka, Japan, began production of a product that became the most unexpected and unusual in the history of the company.

Japanese technology giant Toshiba has unveiled a huge factory farm where they grow different kinds of lettuce. The peculiarity of this plant is that production takes place without sunlight or soil.

The new facility is located in an abandoned electronics factory in Yokosuka, and the company says it has created a "perfect sterile environment", where you will be able to grow three million bags of lettuce every year.

Like the factory-farm in the beginning of this year launched the Fujitsu in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture.





To convert the old factory in a clean room for the production of lettuce, the company installed all the required latest technology (made by Toshiba, of course). The combination of lighting, purified water, temperature control, super efficient production of electricity, and control equipment that is accessible via tablet PCs, has allowed the company to grow lettuces that don't even have to wash before you eat.





Space completely cut off from the surrounding external conditions, and temperature and humidity control computer, and the lettuce inspectors dressed in one-piece tight costumes, make notes on the quality and growth of leaves on their tablet PC in order to prevent air pollution around the plants.





Each plant is provided by artificial lighting, thus they are convinced that they really are under the influence of sun rays while vitamins and nutrients are fed directly to the roots, thus removing the need for soil.





The purpose of the new high-tech farm Toshiba is manufacturing the highest quality in the world of salad.
The final product will not be infected by any bacteria, fungus or insects before it is placed in sealed bags, which should ensure the product a long shelf life.





Toshiba plans to produce about 8,400 heads of lettuce every day and collect three million bags of lettuce, spinach, mizuna and other greens every year, each bag will cost the consumer about 1 pound.
A factory for the production of lettuce is not a marketing gimmick, according to the statements that "the company's effort to diversify its technology."





The company has already outlined plans for the construction of similar plants around the world over the next several years, along with the sale of high-tech equipment for the production of such food products of exceptionally high quality.

This ultra-modern manufacture of salad may seem like overkill, especially when you consider that, in principle, easy to go out and grow like lettuce in the ground. But with the help of Toshiba technology you will be able to guarantee a perfect bunch of lettuce without any defects, diseases or insects, regardless of weather conditions. Likewise, you can easily change the type of lettuce or switch to other edible plants.

Source: facepla.net