Coventry-based Sarginsons Industries — an aluminium die-casting company — has won a contract to make an agricultural product that can reduce water waste and the use of pesticides.
The company has been commissioned by Irish firm MagGrow to manufacture a manifold that can be retrofitted onto crop sprayers to make them more targeted and reduce waste (
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The latter’s patented technology for droplet formation results in superior drift reduction and increased spray coverage performance compared to conventional spraying.
It also reduces water usage by up to 50% and reduces labour requirements.
Gavin Shipley, Sarginsons Technology Centre manager, said: “The manifold we are making for MagGrow is quite complex, with the body requiring a two-part die-cast solution under very high pressure.
"We have worked with Ceracon — a German company with a base in Leamington — to develop the manifold, and it is a partnership that has worked extremely well.
MagGrow can see strong potential for this product, especially as the statistics on water waste reduction and lowering the spread of pesticides are so impressive, and that would mean a good pipeline of orders for Sarginsons.”
Fred Dupont of MagGrow said: “We are delighted to work with Sarginsons. We very much appreciate not only its manufacturing capabilities but also its ability to help a young company like ourselves on the design aspect of our products.
“We expect to work closely with it to develop many more products in the future.”