Agricultural equipment manufacturer Abbey Machinery is settling into a new purpose-built manufacturing facility at Toomevara, County Tipperary, Ireland, completing a move that’s been planned for the past five years.
This is not the first time, however, that the company has moved operations in its 67-year history.
“This will be the third site we have operated from after outgrowing our previous two sites, but this time we have moved into a 30-acre site to allow capability for further future growth,” managing director Clodagh Cavanagh said. “The site allows greater flexibility with machine testing and evaluation; it enables Abbey Machinery to achieve our target to be a centre of excellence for machinery manufacturing and engineering, further building on the trust that generations of farmers have placed in Abbey products.”
The new site will also provide enhanced facilities to host both local and international customer visits, enabling them to share in Abbey Machinery’s passion for farming and farm equipment. Naturally, it provides several new production lines and will boast a host of novel features and equipment including enhanced laser and plasma cutting facilities, automated robotic welding and a new state-of-the-art sandblasting and paint plant.
Additionally, the new premises will provide an extra 35 per cent of warehouse capacity for Abbey’s Q Parts business, enabling increased levels of service to their growing global customer base.
The transition to the new plant started back in July 2014.
“We first moved our diet feeder and side spreader lines in July and have just now finished moving the last of the production lines,” director Owen Cavanagh said. “The final piece of the jigsaw was when we moved more than 500,000 items of our Abbey Q parts stock to the new facility in December.”
Abbey Machinery is one of Ireland’s largest and most respected manufacturers of agricultural equipment. It was established by the Cavanagh family – which has a tradition in agricultural engineering dating back to the 19th Century – in 1947. The company manufacturers a wide range of agricultural machines for slurry and manure handling, grassland management and animal feeding.
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