Richard Lewis joins Glass Pharms as Managing Director

Richard Lewis, one of the UK’s most experienced Glasshouse growers, is joining Glass Pharms as Managing Director of its new state-of-the-art semi-closed greenhouse facility in Wiltshire, England where it will be growing medical cannabis under a Schedule 1 licence for UK patients. 

With more than 38 years of glasshouse experience, Richard previously oversaw operations of the only other semi-closed facility in the UK in Suffolk. “The Glass Pharms facility is a high-tech medicinal facility for growing a high-tech medicinal product” said Lewis “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 2 hectare project that attracted Richard. “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.”