Customer Cases

The customer operates a dairy farm with a substantial vegetable trimming stream from nearby market gardens. Cow manure alone would have composted well, but the vegetable waste is wet, dense and quick to turn anaerobic, and a conventional front-end loader could not mix the two materials thoroughly enough to keep the pile aerobic.

We supplied a self-propelled windrow compost turner with heavy-duty turning teeth. The specification concentrated on two things: the teeth had to be robust enough to break up caking and chop the larger vegetable trimmings rather than ride over them, and the machine had to be operable by one person, diesel driven and simple to maintain in a remote location.

The result is a pile that is turned evenly from base to top, with the vegetable waste broken down and mixed through the manure rather than sitting in wet pockets. The customer reports a consistent fermentation, a shorter cycle and a compost that is uniform enough to sell on to local growers — and the machine is operated by a single driver, which was the decisive factor in choosing it.

In November 2018 we delivered a complete 6–10 t/h vermicompost fertilizer line to a customer in India. Vermicompost behaves differently from manure compost: it is fine, dark, low in fibre and comparatively light, and it screens and granulates differently from cattle manure compost. The line was therefore specified around the material rather than around a standard configuration.

The equipment included a forklift feeder to hold material temporarily and guarantee a continuous supply to the line — the single most important machine for keeping a fertilizer plant running — a new-type vertical crusher to break caking in the vermicompost down to small particles, a compost screening machine to remove impurities and separate the oversize and undersize fractions, a horizontal mixer to blend the vermicompost with additives evenly, a straw crusher to reduce straw to small particles for use as a bulking agent, and belt conveyors connecting the whole sequence.

The project illustrates a point we make to every customer: the machine list follows from the material, not from the tonnage. Vermicompost needed a finer crush and a gentler granulation approach than cattle manure; the customer's market needed a blended product rather than pure vermicompost; and the feeding and conveying arrangement, not the processing machines, is what allows a line of this size to run continuously.

We can provide further references, including photographs and video of installed plants, for projects similar to yours — a dairy farm, a layer unit, a pig operation, a municipal composting site or a commercial fertilizer factory. Where a customer is willing, we also arrange direct contact with existing operators so you can ask them how the equipment has performed over several seasons, which is a more useful conversation than any catalogue.

If you are considering a project, tell us the animal, the daily volume and the product you intend to sell. We will identify the closest comparable installation and share what was specified there, including the design decisions and the problems that were solved — and, where relevant, what we would do differently now. That kind of reference is worth considerably more than a list of countries on a website.