A WELCOMING WORD FROM THE CHIEF ... I am delighted to welcome you to SlurryKat and to this, our corporate product brochure. I trust you will find it of interest and that it will lead you to find out more about the specific SlurryKat products relevant to your needs. I have no doubt that much of our success is due to the high quality and solutions-focused nature of our products, but I am equally sure that the rigorous commitment to excellence and customer service displayed by every member of the SlurryKat team is equally important in bringing about and maintaining our success. Most of our team,...

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN Always having a keen interest in farming, in the tractor and built two custom trailers, which started on the market. This accelerated demand for early 1990s, Garth worked on local dairy farms in a whole new venture for him in Co. Armagh, his contracting services and also developed a the evenings and weekends, milking and feeding Northern Ireland. need for the equipment he manufactured for his contracting business. cows. It was during these years that he obtained great insight and knowledge of farming, while still Very quickly he was overwhelmed with work from studying at school....

A MULTI-AWARD WINNING COMPANY Since 2008, SlurryKat have won numerous awards for innovation of new concepts, new product designs, manufacturing excellence and global export initiatives. The spreading technology dribble bar systems obtained the Royal Agricultural Society Award for innovation. It is this recognition for SlurryKat’s commitment to the agricultural industry that sets the company apart as a specialised Agri equipment innovator and manufacturer. The SlurryKat production facility covers 44,300 square metres, set on a 21 hectare (52 acre) site in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, approx....

AGRI CONTRACTORS & SLURRY EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS Cairns Contracting & SlurryKat are Agri Contractors and Slurry Equipment Suppliers to: 8

THE HISTORY BEHIND THE BRAND SlurryKat is currently the leading manufacturer of innovative slurry/manure handling solutions for the it is an integral and significant back bone of today’s SlurryKat manufacturing empire. Agriculture and Bio-Gas industries. While the SlurryKat name was established in 1994, it had less than 5 employees up until 2007 and just a few simple products. It wasn’t until 2007 that today’s Chief Executive Garth Cairns purchased the company, 2008 welcomed all new designs, innovative concepts, as well as a new logo for SlurryKat, as Garth acknowledged the increased demand in...

THE SLURRYKAT DIFFERENCE The Experts in Innovation Manufacturing & Service Tailored to Your Needs To make servicing easy, all SlurryKat’s equipment has been designed to work efficiently for you and to keep maintenance to an absolute minimum through our innovative design process. We offer several service options tailored to suit your individual needs, from fixed inspection services to full flexible service schedules. The conventional fixed inspection services schedule has fixed intervals for basic oil changes, lubricants and general checks and adjustments and is determined by operational hours...

PAINT... OUR ATTENTION TO DETAIL All SlurryKat equipment is finished to the highest possible standard in the agricultural industry using the latest modern techniques and technology. In 2019, the company made a multi-million pound investment into a custom built final finishing facility at the SlurryKat works in Waringstown, Co. Armagh, introducing two exceptional paint lines with booths that are over 20 metres long and 6 metres high, facilitating a mega plant to paint all the equipment lines that SlurryKat manufacture. Every piece of equipment undergoes a vigorous shot blasting process to remove...

Garth Cairns Chief Executive ROYAL NOD OF APPROVAL In January 2020 we had the honour of welcoming HRH The Princess Royal to the SlurryKat production facility. The Princess was led on a tour of the production facility by CEO Mr Garth Cairns. HRH was given a briefing about the components used for building tankers and shown 3D CAD models of the equipment. 12 She viewed laser cutting machinery and the welding process before being briefed about the construction of umbilical systems, components and attachments. The tour concluded in SlurryKat’s new state of the art painting and final assembly facility,...

Our CEO commented “It was an honour to host the HRH The Princess Royal at SlurryKat and share my journey of the past 13 years of the company with her. It was fantastic to be able to showcase some of the engineering expertise that SlurryKat has to offer.”

CUSTOMER OPEN DAYS SlurryKat Spreading Technology Show Around 800 farmers and agricultural contractors attend the annual SlurryKat Spreading Technology Show, a public open day held every January at the company’s manufacturing base at Waringstown in County Armagh. The event showcases the latest slurry spreading technology manufactured by SlurryKat and highlighted forthcoming spreading regulations banning the use of splash plates. Due to increased environmental concerns regarding high ammonia emissions generated when spreading slurry, the use of splash plates is set to be banned across Europe and...

SHARING OUR EXPERIENCE Those attending the SlurryKat open days are able to see what alternatives to the splash plate are available. A full range of SlurryKat tankers, trailers and Doda pumps are also on display. SlurryKat CEO Garth Cairns provides technical seminar talks on the equipment and shares his 24 years of slurry spreading experience with all the visitors. The event focuses on environmental regulations for spreading slurry on farms and It also shows farmers and contractors the low emission spreading methods that are available to the industry to comply with the regulations. The events...

SLURRYKAT, A ‘ONE IN A MILLION’ COMPANY ISO 9001 is the internationally recognised standard for Quality Management Systems and is the highest quality standard in the world. Only one million companies globally have achieved this. ISO 9001 provides a framework that ensures an efficient quality generating approach to the manufacturing process and company management style, ensuring all SlurryKat products are manufactured to the highest standards. This means that when you choose SlurryKat, you can be assured of that one-in-a-million quality!