Fluence by OSRAM (Fluence) is a company creating lighting solutions for controlled environment commercial crop production. The company has announced on its website the results, accordingly, revealing higher yields and better plant quality under broad-spectrum lighting strategies. Fluence has realized its year-long strawberry research in collaboration with Delphy Improvement Centre (Delphy), an independent institute and expert in food and flowers located in the Netherlands. Together, Fluence and Delphy studied how Fluence’s LED lighting solutions impact strawberry production in greenhouses.

Grocers push producing suppliers to deliver fresh, high-quality crops year-round, Fluence and Delphy examined how to sustainably grow strawberry crops in high-tech greenhouse environments while maximizing yield and fruit quality.


As Fluence released, the results of their examination show that strawberries thrive under predominantly white spectra and strawberry cultivars grown under a broad-spectrum with a fraction of far-red saw taller crops, wider canopies, higher overall yields, and increased Brix values. Taller and wider crops are easier to harvest and enable better air movement across plants, discouraging pathogens that would thrive in more dense, humid environments. As Fluence stated, its research showcases the power of optimized lighting solutions for the world’s most popular crops.

Without doubt groceries and other retailers seek quality and consistency from their supplier, a consistency that a high-tech greenhouse facility is built to provide, Fluence concluded. According to this request, greenhouses create safe, clean, and controlled environments. With an optimized lighting strategy, growers can produce crops with delicious flavours that consumers demand and yields that enable store shelves to remain stocked year-round.