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Award of Technical Innovation 2010 - Royal Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland |
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SlurryKat Wins "Best New Business" & "Young Business Person of the Year" Awards |
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SlurryKat received "Best New Business Award" at the Craigavon Business Awards on 10th June 2010. Director Garth Cairns also received the "Young Business Person of the Year" Award. |
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SlurryKat Wins Prestigious Enterprise Award |
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One of Northern Ireland’s most forward thinking agri engineering companies has had its commitment to investment recognised courtesy by the ‘Spirit of Enterprise’ Award Scheme. Waringstown-based SlurryKat has been added to the acclaimed initiative’s role of honour for April on the back of its highly successful product development programme and export sales drive. |
The Spirit of Enterprise Awards are organised by the Ulster Society of Chartered Accountants, in association with Northern Bank. The initiative was established to officially Northern Ireland's most innovative and entrepreneurial companies.
SlurryKat was founded by Garth Cairns in January 2008, who had previously built up one of Northern Ireland’s most successful Agricultural contacting businesses. |
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| Left to Right: Paul Kavanagh (Craigavon Borough Council), Garth Cairns (SlurryKat MD) andCaroline Thompson (Sponsor - Northern Bank) |
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“We set up the new manufacturing operation employing just two people initially,” Garth explained.
“Prior to this I had purchased the SlurryKat brand name and distribution rights with the aim of re-focusing farmers’ and contractors’ attention on the benefits of efficient slurry use using umbilical slurry spreading techniques.
“To date we have succeeded in forwarding this objective. Over the past two years we have developed 50 + new design options and are selling into the Irish, UK and European markets. Our workforce has increased to its current level of 17 people.”
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The establishment of the SlurryKat manufacturing operation at Waringstown coincided with the introduction of the EU Nitrates Directive in the UK and Ireland. Garth Cairns recognised this development as an opportunity to highlight the significant fertiliser value within slurry.
“Traditionally, farmers viewed slurry as a waste that was ‘conveniently’ spread on the nearest field, just to get rid of it. The reality is that slurry is an extremely useful crop input, provided it can be spread at the right time and using the best SlurryKat techniques.”
SlurryKat’s success over the past two years can be attributed to the company’s track record in developing umbilical spreading systems, incorporating dribble bars, flow metering and GPS technologies, which allow farmers and contractors to do this very thing.
“The umbilical approach allows slurry to be spread at times of the year when land is too wet to carry a traditional tanker,” Garth Cairns stressed.
“Dribble bars allow the accurate placement of slurry on to a crop. What’s more, the slurry is spread in such a way that volatisation losses are kept to an absolute minimum. This reduces the smell associated with traditional slurry spreading systems to an absolute minimum. It also means that the vast proportion of the Nitrogen in the slurry is retained to boost crop growth.”
He concluded:
“We have developed slurry spreading systems that work because our years of contracting experience, this has taught us about all of the pitfalls that are out there on the job. In addition, we know that any of the new products that we bring to the market actually work because our contracting division has tested and trialed them rigorously and extensively during the development process.” |
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2009 Slurrykat LTD Gains Recognition With Top Award |
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Article from Lincolnshire Telegraph - Issue 42:
Throughout the year, the Directors at the Lincolnshire Telegraph, select company’s that have best demonstrated a proven ability to go that extra mile in not only meeting but exceeding the needs of their clients.
Therefore, in line with this philosophy it gives us pleasure to announce -
SLURRYKAT LTD has been selected to receive the BA PRODUCT OF INNOVATION AWARD OF THE YEAR 2009. As a completely independent Award Programme, acknowledging business excellence across a wide range of disciplines, the Business Achievement Award is recognised both locally and nationally. |
This Award serves as a distinguishing factor, ranking SLURRY KAT LTD amongst the best in its field, as well as acting as a seal of approval to prospective clients.
Commenting on receiving this accolade, Garth Cairns, owner of the company said: “We are honoured to receive such recognition for our products. In the past two years we have made significant advances using modern engineering techniques to push our products to new levels previously unseen before.”
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“We were driven mainly by the new EU regulations imposed in Ireland for slurry spreading and the aim was not solely to meet the regulations but also we used this as a cornerstone to enable farmers to get more nutrition value from their slurry and in turn they can experience significant financial savings with using SlurryKat equipment.
This has been readily demonstrated and proven in the past 18 months with all our customers, some of which have reduced their fertiliser’s bills by up to 80% and still achieved the same outputs from their farms by using the SlurryKat system. |
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Having reached these new advances, we are already working on new prototype designs to move on to new higher levels and new equipment from these designs will be seen towards the end of the year so
stand by.” As a rapidly growing company using the latest high tech engineering techniques to produce high quality products, SlurryKat is the market leader in the manufacture of umbilical slurry pumping systems for agriculture and industry.
SlurryKat Contracts Division offers a full range of contracting services to farmers in the north of Ireland and specialises mainly in umbilical slurry spreading using SlurryKat’s latest spreading technologies.
The Contracting Division has grown rapidly to become one of the largest slurry contractors in Ireland today and it is this vital link, providing the knowledge for design and rigorous testing of all the products, which enables SlurryKat to produce equipment of the highest quality available on the market today.
You may also download the Lincolnshire Telegraph Business Achievement Award here in PDF format |
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