Metrolina Greenhouses Australia
Metrolina Greenhouses Headquarters Location
Huntersville, NC
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About Metrolina Greenhouses
Metrolina Greenhouses is a family-owned, wholesale plant and se”‹rv”‹ices company that started business in April 1972. We are the largest single-site heated greenhouse in the United States at 162 acres under roof. If you are familiar with the Charlotte region you could note that our size is comparable to 5 Concord Mills Malls which could fit inside the greenhouse! In addition we have approximately 15 acres of outdoor growing space and are still expanding. We also have a second location in York S.C. that has 175 acres of outdoor growing space.
Metrolina Greenhouses is one of the most automated greenhouses in the United States and has many internally designed machines from automatic plant transplanters to mechanical shipping belts. We employ 725 people year round, and 600 additional people in the spring and fall peaks. We ship to Big Box Retailers, Mass Merchandisers, Home Improvement Chains and other greenhouses along the East Coast. Our product typically stays within a 500 mile radius of the greenhouse, but that puts us in most states on the East Coast. During our peak season (March-June) we ship over 180 trailer loads of product a day!
About UsMetrolina Greenhouses is one of the most automated greenhouses in the United States and has many internally designed machines from automatic plant transplanters to mechanical shipping belts. We employ 725 people year round, and 600 additional people in the spring and fall peaks. We ship to Big Box Retailers, Mass Merchandisers, Home Improvement Chains and other greenhouses along the East Coast. Our product typically stays within a 500 mile radius of the greenhouse, but that puts us in most states on the East Coast. During our peak season (March-June) we ship over 180 trailer loads of product a day!
Metrolina Greenhouses is a family-owned, wholesale plant and se”‹rv”‹ices company that started business in April 1972. We are proud to have the largest single-site heated greenhouse in the United States at 162 acres under roof at our Huntersville, NC facility. In addition to greenhouse space, we have approximately 15 acres of outdoor growing space and are still expanding. Our York, SC facility has 175 acres of outdoor growing space and growing!
Metrolina Greenhouses is one of the most automated greenhouses in the United States and has many internally designed machines from automatic plant transplanters to mechanical shipping belts. We ship to Big Box Retailers, Mass Merchandisers, Home Improvement Chains and other greenhouses along the East Coast. Our products typically stay within a 500 mile radius of the greenhouse, so that puts us in most states on the East Coast. During our peak season (March-June) we ship over 180 trailer loads of product a day!
Some of our Sustainability Efforts include:
- We use up to 1,500,000 gallons of water every day. For every 1 inch of rain that falls on the greenhouse, our roof and pond system allow us to collect and store 3 million gallons of water in 25 acres of retention ponds. This allows us to use recycled/recaptured water on all of our crops.
- All the air in the greenhouse is exchanged every minute during the summer months for cooling due to our unique open-roof greenhouse design. 75% of the greenhouse is cooled using passive “MX” style ventilation (our famous open roof system)!
- We use 12 tractor trailer loads of sustainably harvested Canadian Sphagnum peat moss each week (because our plants are grown in a sphagnum peat moss based mix).
- We heat the greenhouse during the cooler months with biomass fuel via our wood-driven boilers. We produce over 2 billion BTU’s of heat while being environmentally friendly.
We produce 110,000,000 Seedling and Cutting plugs which in turn produce:
7,000,000 Hardy Mums
6,000,000 Summer Annuals
5,000,000 Hanging Baskets
3,000,000 Poinsettias
1,800,000 Bedding Plant Flats
11,000,000 Perennials”‹”‹
Who We AreMetrolina Greenhouses is one of the most automated greenhouses in the United States and has many internally designed machines from automatic plant transplanters to mechanical shipping belts. We ship to Big Box Retailers, Mass Merchandisers, Home Improvement Chains and other greenhouses along the East Coast. Our products typically stay within a 500 mile radius of the greenhouse, so that puts us in most states on the East Coast. During our peak season (March-June) we ship over 180 trailer loads of product a day!
Some of our Sustainability Efforts include:
- We use up to 1,500,000 gallons of water every day. For every 1 inch of rain that falls on the greenhouse, our roof and pond system allow us to collect and store 3 million gallons of water in 25 acres of retention ponds. This allows us to use recycled/recaptured water on all of our crops.
- All the air in the greenhouse is exchanged every minute during the summer months for cooling due to our unique open-roof greenhouse design. 75% of the greenhouse is cooled using passive “MX” style ventilation (our famous open roof system)!
- We use 12 tractor trailer loads of sustainably harvested Canadian Sphagnum peat moss each week (because our plants are grown in a sphagnum peat moss based mix).
- We heat the greenhouse during the cooler months with biomass fuel via our wood-driven boilers. We produce over 2 billion BTU’s of heat while being environmentally friendly.
We produce 110,000,000 Seedling and Cutting plugs which in turn produce:
7,000,000 Hardy Mums
6,000,000 Summer Annuals
5,000,000 Hanging Baskets
3,000,000 Poinsettias
1,800,000 Bedding Plant Flats
11,000,000 Perennials”‹”‹
We are a family-owned, wholesale and services company, founded in 1972! Metrolina is the largest single-site, heated greenhouse (over 150 acres) in the US, as well as the most automated.
Our commitment to superior quality and service is but one of the many contributing factors that has made us an award winning industry leader. We hope that you will enjoy your plants as much as we enjoy growing them!
Check out some of our videos on working at one of our facilities, and to see some of our core sustainability efforts!
ValuesOur commitment to superior quality and service is but one of the many contributing factors that has made us an award winning industry leader. We hope that you will enjoy your plants as much as we enjoy growing them!
Check out some of our videos on working at one of our facilities, and to see some of our core sustainability efforts!
Here you can see the core values of our company. If these match to what's important to you, check our or career opportunities to join and grow along with us!
Number of Employees in Metrolina Greenhouses
501 to 1,000
Metrolina Greenhouses Revenue
$140m to $700m (AUD)
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