NEW PARTNERSHIPS IN THE UK

CHANGES AT SLURRYKAT UK BRISTOL OFFICE

DRIBBLE BAR SLURRY SYSTEM MAKING WORK EASIER FOR NEW ZEALAND FARMER

INSIDE THIS ISSUE...

SLURRYKAT INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHOWS

“CREAM OF THE CROP” AT BUSINESS AWARDS IN 2014

SWEDISH FARMER SEES BIG REDUCTION IN COSTS

DEALER HOSTS OPEN DAY IN AHATRI, FINLAND

FEATURED...

SPREAD THE WORDISSUE 2DEC 2014

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Another Exciting Year at SlurryKat...Notes from Garth Cairns, CEO SlurryKat

Growing Our International PresenceThis year has been yet another exciting year for SlurryKat. As you will see in this newsletter, our international presence is growing even bigger and in the last few weeks we were delighted to announce our new partnership with Guy Machinery Ltd in the North of England. We are looking forward to working closely with them in 2015 along with all of our global partners.

Internal Company ChangesWe have also had lots of internal changes this year. We have welcomed many new staff members in our design department, admin, marketing, sales departments and also our stores and factory. All of these new team members, bring with them experience and lots of enthusiasm to make SlurryKat the number one, global, Slurry equipment manufacturer!•Spare Parts Division and Bristol OfficeWe have also made several changes to our stores department (See page 13) and to our Bristoloffice(seeopposite).ThesechangesareveryimportantandwillimprovetheoverallefficiencyandserviceatSlurryKatandultimatelytoyou,thecustomer.

Our AwardsIcannotfinishwithoutmentioningourawardsthisyear(seepage10and11).Wearesoproud to have won these awards. It is a credit to the entire SlurryKat team. These awards reaffirmourcommitmenttoengineeringworld-classequipmentfortheagriculturalindustry.

Plans for 2015Wearenotonesforsittingstill!-Wehavelotsmoreexcitingthingswewanttodoin2015.Namely on the innovationside-ourdesignteamisconstantlyimplementingnewideasandimproving products. This will be evident when we launch the new Low-Line Dribble Bar at Lamma 2015. Research and design will be at the forefront of our projects in 2015.Customer service is another key focus for us in 2015. You will be hearing and seeing a lot more from us via our sales teams or via our marketing department.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015,•

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Significant Changes at the SlurryKat Bristol Branch

Another Exciting Year at SlurryKat...Notes from Garth Cairns, CEO SlurryKat

The SlurryKat Bristol branch has undergone several signficiant changes within the last month with John Burnham retiring, Adrian Dougan and Dave Turley coming in as UK Sales Manager and Branch Manager.

John Burnham officially retired last month after many years in the business. We would like to take this opportunity to wish him well in his retirement.

Adrian Dougan is now the new UK Sales Manager, accompanied by Dave Turley, the new SlurryKat branch manager at Bristol. Dave comes from a strong sales background and will be aided by Philippa Andrews as the new admin manager. Both Dave and Philippa are here to help with sales, parts, general enquiries and information.

Dave Turley & Philippa Andrews at the Bristol Branch

ContentsIntroduction from CEO 2

Significiant Changes at the SlurryKat Bristol Office 3

SlurryKat Expands Dealership Network in the North of England with Guy Machinery Ltd 5

Dribble Bar Slurry System Making Work Easier for New Zealand Farmer 6

SlurryKat Dealer Hosts Open Day in Ahatri, Finland 7

International Trade Shows 8 Kone Messut TAMPERE, FINLAND 8 AgriShow with Hektner Maskin, Norway 9 National Fieldays, Hamilton, New Zealand 9

“Cream of the Crop” at Craigavon Business Awards 10

SlurryKat Achievements in 2014 11

Reduction in Costs for Swedish Farmer Using SlurryKat Equipment 12

New & Improved Spare Parts Depot 13

From Around the World - Customers and Their SlurryKat Equipment 14

Lamma Preview 15

27th, 28th & 29th Jan 2015FINTONA, N. IRELAND

VISIT US AT STAND NO: H925 TO 932

Adrian Dougan, UK Sales Manager

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The deal will see Guy Machinery Ltd promote and sell our extensive range of award-winning equipment to customers throughout the Lancashire and Yorkshire regions.

Garth Cairns, CEO of SlurryKat says, “We are delighted to partner with Guy Machinery in the UK. This new partnership adds to our active network of dealers and will certainly open up new regions for us within the UK.

We know the UK market extremely well and we know that our equipment is very well received by the hundreds of systems we have already supplied to farmers and contractors. To have this opportunity to work with a growing distributor such as Guy Machinery, will only help strengthen and spread awareness of the SlurryKat brand throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire.”

Graham Guy, Managing Director at Guy Machinery says, “We are excited to have been appointed by SlurryKat to supply the full range of products in our area. We have been working on this deal for some time now and we are

delighted to be able to add this prestigious and growing franchise to our line up. With our central location next to the Gisburn Cattle Market, we are well placed to serve the Lancashire and Yorkshire regions. This new opportunity is integral to our future growth plans.”

Guy Machinery was established at Skipton Auction Mart in October 2005, with franchises for Valtra, Krone and Amazone. In January 2010 they acquired the former Lindley Pate business at Gisburn and was appointed main distributor for Ifor Williams Trailers. In April 2013, they moved all operations and staff to the Gisburn site. They also hold agencies for Can-Am & Polaris ATVs, and Schaffer Loaders. They are a specialist Forage Centre for Krone Big X, Big M and Big Pack ranges and the North’s No. 1 supplier for Krone machinery and equipment.

Expanding Our Dealership Network in the North of England with Guy MachineryWe are delighted to announce that we have recently secured an exclusive distribution agreement with Lancashire based distributor, Guy Machinery Ltd.

With our central location next to the Gisburn Cattle Market, we are well placed to serve the Lancashire and Yorkshire regions.

“ “Graham Guy, Guy Machinery

CALL GUY MACHINERY LTD:01200 445555

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Dribble Bar Slurry System Making Work Easier for New Zealand Farmer

The Dribble Bar slurry spreading system from SlurryKat, is making work a lot easier for a New Zealand farmer.

Jim and his wife Sandra Cooper, farming at Winton, New Zealand, wanted a means of reducing their workload, speeding up the task of slurry application and preventing the damage to pasture and races that can occur with tanker spreading. They chose a Slurrykat dribble bar system for their farms and for some contracting.

The ‘umbilical’ method of slurry/manure application involves pumping the material from a storage pond using a Doda pump via a pipeline to a tractor-mounted dribble bar applicator.

The Coopers have three farms with 1400ha of dairying and dairy support land, milking a total of 1800 cows. They will be pumping the waste up to 2km from their ponds and hope to achieve work rates of one million litres per day or more.

Surprisingly, as SlurryKat’s export sales director, Drew Linton states “Some SlurryKat customers in Europe and North America are pumping material 8-9km from storage with staged pumping.”

Once the system is set up and the delivery line is laid to the paddock and connected, the applicator unit is then driven up and down the paddock towing the drag hose. Work rates are typically 200m3 per hour. Application rates range from 1mm to 10mm per hectare. Paddock and race damage are minimal; the tractor and applicator traverse the paddock only once until it is covered.

When shifting between paddocks the pump is switched off remotely and started again in the next paddock. The model bought by Jim has a 12m spread width and folds for easy transport.

The pumps come in a range of output sizes and are PTO, electric or engine driven. Pumps can be supplied with a return hose to keep the pond agitated. The delivery line is mobile and flexible, made up of 200m lengths of lay-flat hose of 100, 125 or 150mm diameter. SlurryKat can supply hydraulically driven front or rear mounted hose reels to lay or retrieve the delivery line with ease from the tractor seat.

The dribble bar lays the effluent in confined lines, 250mm apart with a recommended delivery height of 300-500mm. “This reduces air surface area on the effluent, preventing odours and nitrogen loss and placing all the material on the ground without splashing so the grass can be grazed sooner,” said Drew Linton.

When the pond has been emptied the delivery line can be flushed clean by compressed air or the line rolled up with the last of the material being returned to the pond. With a GPS system and flow meters, applications are accurate and recorded.

By Tony Hopkinson, Dairy News, New Zealand

Jim’s system is powered by a DODA HD35, which has the highest bar pressure and it is the No. 1 pumping system for farmers and contractors. His LAYFLAT HOSE is the OROFLEX range, which SlurryKat have on exclusive 3-year warranty, which Jim found beneficial.6

SlurryKat Dealer Hosts Open Day in Ahatri, Finland

Our Finnish distributor, Y-Agro, recently hosted an open day at Kantoniemi Farm, Ahtari, Finland. This saw Y-Agro putting the SlurryKat umbilical system to the test on a vast area of land.

It once again demonstrated the flexibility of the SlurryKat system, allowing umbilical spreading on any site using the mobile slurry storage tank. The system has the ability to apply slurry to wet/steep land or even a remote area where a heavy tanker can’t travel to. With the added advantage of a fast return on purchase investment (typically seen 100% pay back in 12-18 months maximum), it makes the system extremely attractive to all farmers and slurry contractors alike.

The demonstration by Y-Agro also highlights how user friendly the system is with minimum soil/ground

compaction. In using the system a farmer or contractor is facilitating the retention of the maximum amount of nutrients contained in the slurry so as to give high forage or crop yields,greatly reducing the need for compound artificial fertilisers.

The system demonstrated included:

• Oroflex hose (has a 3 year warranty as standard, underlining the high quality of the hose)

• SlurryKat hose handling reeler (front linkage mounted)• Doda HD 35 centrifugal high pressure pump • Slurry supplied to the site via a mobile storage tanker

feeding into the Doda pump• Spreading with a disc injector system and dribble bar

system.

Y-Agro (Suomen Yrittäjien Maatalous Oy) has its headquarters in Hyvinkää, Finland and offer customers a range of high quality, value for money, agricultural products and equipment.

Check out the video of the Open Day by scanning this QR code:

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International Trade Shows

TAMPERE, FINLAND

We accompanied our dealer Y-Agro to the Konemessut show in Tampere,

Finland.

The exhibition itself was organised by Y-Agro along with Agri-chain and

Agritek. A lot of agricultural machinery was on display, including the

SlurryKat 12m Dribble Bar, Bak-Pak, HD35 DODA Pump and 1000m Reeler.

“The SlurryKat global dealer network is strategically growing at a fast pace, therefore it is of great importance that we offer support on the ground,fromTradeExhibitionsthroughtospecificmarketingactivities.Thisis evident at the Trade Show support we have provided in 2014 in Finland, NewZealandandNorway(seebelowandopposite).Wefindthattheendusers, as well as the dealers, like to see the presence of a manufacturer at these shows.”

Drew LintonExport Sales Director

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We were delighted to exhibit a range of SlurryKat products at the recent Agrishow in Stjørdal, Norway with our dealer Hektner Maskin. Amongst the products on display were Dribble Bars, Doda Pumps, Lagoon/Slurry Mixer and Front Wheelers.

Taking place every other year, with approx 200 exhibitors, the Agrishow in Norway is extremely popular with the farming industry. It attracts more than 30,000 visitors over a three day period and ensures that farmers get the opportunity to compare the many different brands of machinery available.

With over 30 years’ experience, SlurryKat’s distributor in Norway, Hektner Maskin is extremely knowledgeable and can offer advice to farmers and contractors wishing to save money and increase production with SlurryKat equipment. Having carefully listened to the market, the company has developed over the years and offers customers a wide range of solutions to suit their requirements.

AgriShow with Hektner Maskin, Norway

National Fieldays, Hamilton, New Zealand

In the summer of 2014, we exhibited at the National Fieldays in Hamilton, New Zealand. There we displayed the SlurryKat Tanker, Dribble Bar and DODA Pump.

Fieldays strives to produce the strongest platform for companies to launch agricultural products and services to New Zealand and the world. Last year they welcomed more than 125,000 people through the gates to carry out business with 900 exhibitors representing the best of New Zealand’s agriculture industry.

Many people were impressed with the quality of the SlurryKat machinery on display. As a result, farmers in New Zealand are beginning to see the working benefits of this machinery. (See pg.6)

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“Cream of the Crop” at Craigavon Business AwardsSlurryKat walked away with three awards at its local council business awards, including accolades for Manufacturing Excellence, Best Export Initiative and the prestigious 2014 Craigavon Legacy Award for highest achieving business within the borough.

The company is no stranger to success on this platform with this being the third successive year we have come away with an award.

I am absolutely delighted to win these awards. To come away with not one but three awards on the night is just incredible and a credit to the entire SlurryKat team.

These awards reaffirm our commitment to engineering world-class equipment for the agricultural industry, not only locally but internationally. We have really established the export side of the business over the past year and to be recognised in this way just makes everything worthwhile.

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Garth Cairns, CEO, SlurryKat

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SlurryKat Achievements in 2014SlurryKat is delighted to have won the Ulster Agri Business award at the Ulster Bank Business Achievers awards in October.

Selected from almost 200 entries, we are now one of eight high-flying Ulster companies

to compete in the all-island Ulster Bank Business Achievers awards in Dublin next

month. We will go forward for judging against provincial winners from Leinster,

Munster and Connaught in the Agri Business category.

Businesses are judged on financial performance, company milestones and

achievements, future strategy for business people and the business and development of

innovative products and services.

Pictured Below:Ellvena Graham, Managing Director, SME Banking and Head of Ulster Bank Northern Ireland, Garth Cairns, CEO, SlurryKat, Andy Mills, Regional Director, Business Banking, Ulster Bank

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Big Reduction in Costs for Swedish Farmer Using SlurryKat Equipment

A Swedish farmer is reaping the benefits since purchasing SlurryKat equipment. Gastav Hilmer has spread 14,000m3 so far this year using the SlurryKat system (comprising of a Swing Up Dribble Bar, Front and Rear Reelers, 1000m Bak Pak and a Trailed Reeler).

The reason for purchasing this system was to avoid driving heavy slurry tankers on the land, which they found, was causing major soil

compaction issues. By switching to a SlurryKat system, they have totally removed these issues, with no compaction. They are now seeing even more benefits of running a small tractor on the land with little weight.

Gustav Hilmer says, “Our experience of SlurryKat has been far beyond our high expectations!...Take one example; in the past, we experienced harvesting losses and higher drying costs due to increasing amounts of ‘green shoots and grain pickles’ in the compacted tracks left from the heavy tankers spreading the slurry. Now there are no tracks or green areas where the crops have been slower to grow from the soil compaction.”

Gustav also mentions another advantage of the system, “We can run even if it has started to rain with no mud on the roads which was always a problem with the tankers”. He finshes by saying, “We want to take harvest yields to over 10,000 kilograms per hectare, but to do this, we need to take care of our land. We can now do this better than ever now with the SlurryKat system.”

Our experience of SlurryKat has been far beyond our high expectations!“

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We have recently upgraded our spare parts department. This is now a depot that caters for the SlurryKat production floor as well as UK, Ireland and International customers. A new automated bar coding system has been put in place and Chris McMullan is the SlurryKat Stores Manager who can help with any queries.

WE HAVE IN STOCK SPARE PARTS FOR:

TANKERS

TRAILERS

DODA PUMPS*

FLOW METERS

UMBLICIAL SYSTEMS

ALSO:

OROFLEX HOSES

* SlurryKat Is the Sole Importer For Doda Equipment & Parts for UK & Ireland

TO ORDER PARTS: PARTS HOTLINE: 028 3888 2263

EMAIL: stores@slurrykat.com

DROP IN: 44 Lowtown Rd,

Waringstown BT61 7SJ

Doda Pumps at SlurryKat Headquarters

NEW & IMPROVED...SPARE PARTS DEPOT Chris McMullan, Stores Manager

FLOW METER

NOW: £2,648RRP: £3,264

Mounted in galvanised frame or spreader.

Offer ends 31st Jan 2015

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Ryan McGahie Collecting his tanker

From Around the World....Customers and Their SlurryKat Equipment

Simon Haffey collecting his

GREEN (!) tanker

Hamilton Contracting

Services, ScotlandSlurryKat Trailer. Sent in

by Vicky Morrison, Canada Jørn Stadheim, Norway

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Jackobsen, Norway

Walter Johnson picking up his

tanker from Tim Black (Sales)

David Shillam Agricultural Contractor

David Shillam Agricultural Contractor

David Shillam Agricultural Contractor

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VISIT US AT LAMMA 21st & 22nd Jan 2015

LAUNCHING OUR NEW LOW LINE DRIBBLE BAR!Also on Display: 18000L Tanker with 15m Dribble Bar, Doda Pumps, Front Reeler & More...

This new Dribble Bar model, available in both 7.5m, 9m and 12m now features an ultra lowset macerator which greatly improves visibility for the operator during and after spreading when reeling up the hoses. This ensures a more efficient operation. On a standard Dribble Bar, the macerator usually sits quite high up, so this new Dribble Bar caters for operators who prefer having more visibility whilst not compromising on the spreading, which this SlurryKat model promises to do.

This model still comes with the standard features we have come to expect from SlurryKat including hydraulic folding and flow-meter ready. At the Lamma show it will be the 9m model on display complete with the revolutionary SlurryKat Bak-Pak. As with all SlurryKat equipment, this new low-line Dribble Bar has been developed through extensive research, testing and listening to customer feedback.

Also on display will be a 18000L Tanker complete with 15m Swing Up Dribble Bar; Submersible pump range; Doda Pumps range; Road crossing ramps; 800m Front Reeler.

VISIT US AT STAND NO. R26

Tanker complete with dribble bar, also on display

VISIT US AT STAND NO. R26

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