Our roots

Where we come from

Our team was formed in the Westland, with deep experience in engineering, building, and managing greenhouse projects around the world. Working alongside growers, greenhouse builders, and other stakeholders, we kept running into the same problem: costs are too high.

What drives that is high capex and high opex. We believe both can be brought down by using space more efficiently. Greenhouses use only a fraction of the height they already have, and automation is built far more complex than the process actually requires. Efficiency and simplicity are won in the process, not in the machinery around it.

The Moving Tower System (MTSys) is our answer: a modular platform where vertical towers carrying the crop travel on an overhead monorail to centralised workstations, so labour and climate concentrate where they generate the most value.

Vincent and Chris van der Gaag

What we do

We design, deliver and support automated growing systems for greenhouses and vertical farms. Every project is engineered around the crop and the site — not the other way around.

Greenhouse & vertical farming experts

We ship prefabricated modules from the Netherlands and commission them alongside local partners on site.

One platform, many crops

MTSys is running with leafy greens, herbs, strawberries and nursery crops — each with tailored growing recipes.

Long-term partnership

We support customers across the full lifecycle: feasibility, design, commissioning, operations and expansion.

Why Dutch Lion

MTSys typically delivers around 90% smaller footprint, 40% lower CAPEX and 20% lower crop costs compared to horizontal greenhouse cultivation. Just as important, it is designed to be understood and operated by growers, not just engineers. That combination — Dutch horticultural know-how, modular hardware and honest economics — is what Dutch Lion AgTech is built on.

Press coverage & features

Selected coverage of Dutch Lion AgTech Solutions and MTSys.

• HortiDaily·17 June 2026 Indoor farm CAPEX as low as €650/m² A new Dutch Lion cost analysis shows total CAPEX for indoor farming can come in under €1,000/m² — and as low as around €650/m² at scale — well below the >€1,500/m² that has long held the sector back.](https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9840484/indoor-farm-capex-as-low-as-eur650-m2/)
• HortiDaily·22 May 2026 Vertical farming in the Netherlands: new business cases and hybrid approaches Coverage of the Fieldlab Vertical Farming event at the World Horti Center in Naaldwijk, where Dutch Lion joined the discussion on where viable business cases for vertical farming remain today.](https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9840108/vertical-farming-in-the-netherlands-new-business-cases-and-hybrid-approaches/)
• HortiDaily·5 May 2026 Dutch Lion completes lighting section of validation project Validation with Vertify at the World Horti Center shows MTSys brings winter lighting energy for crispy lettuce to around 2.9 kWh/kg — versus 4–5 kWh/kg for lighting alone in a typical indoor farm.](https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9835156/dutch-lion-completes-lighting-section-of-validation-project/)
• HortiDaily·3 June 2025 Smarter climate, better crops: new partnership brings precision to hybrid farming Dutch Lion AgTech Solutions and Airlux Technologies announce a partnership at GreenTech Amsterdam 2025, combining the MTSys moving-tower platform with advanced lighting and climate control.](https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9737589/smarter-climate-better-crops-new-partnership-brings-precision-to-hybrid-farming/)
• Groenten & Fruit Actueel·14 April 2025 Verticaal telen in de kas bespaart vijfde van teeltkosten Nederlandstalige reportage over het MTSys-concept van Dutch Lion: verticaal telen in de kas met bewegende teelttorens, met ongeveer 20% lagere teeltkosten en fors minder ruimtebeslag dan traditionele horizontale teelt.](https://www.gfactueel.nl/verticaal-telen-in-de-kas-bespaart-vijfde-van-teeltkosten/)
• HortiDaily·12 March 2025 Growing lettuce in moving cultivation towers: smaller greenhouse, lower CAPEX, lower crop costs A visit to the MTSys pilot at the World Horti Center — 30 towers per monorail, 90% smaller footprint, 40% lower project CAPEX and 20% lower crop costs than comparable horizontal growing.](https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9712259/growing-lettuce-in-moving-cultivation-towers-smaller-greenhouse-lower-capex-lower-crop-costs/)