Teemore Engineering sales manager Nicky Johnston stands in front of their CNC Schwarze Robitec machine that can bend steel pipes into custom shapes
A Fermanagh engineering firm is broadening its horizons and now exporting to Australia.
Teemore Engineering has recently completed its first export order to Australia, with 520 of the company’s Elite Cow Cubicles going to Studleigh Dairy.
A fixture in the community for over 40 years Teemore provides a specialist engineering service, developed to meet the specific needs of farmers that require livestock housing solutions.
The company manufactures and supplies a standard range of livestock equipment as well as offering a bespoke design service.
In a great coup for the company the initial contact for the bumper deal came through a member of farm staff in Australia who hailed from Northern Ireland.
After liaising with the management team at Studleigh it was just a case of agreeing the specification for the cubicles required and the price.
Nicky Johnston from Teemore Engineering cited the company’s website as a key tool in promoting work.
“Our website helped tremendously in allowing the customer assess the quality and scope of the products that we manufacture and distribute.
“Our input was part of a major of a major investment programme undertaken at the farm.
“We are currently exporting our product ranges to the other parts of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
“But this is the first time that we have ever secured an order from as a far away as Australia.”
The group currently does 30% of its work in the UK with the remainder in the North and South of Ireland and a small amount of work in Mainland Europe”
Nicky admitted his pleasure at the links now created in Australia.
“One of the most satisfying aspects to the work undertaken with Studleigh Dairies was the fact that our equipment is as relevant to milk producers in Australia as is the case here in Northern Ireland.”
The other pleasing dimension to it all is the reality that the worldwide web crosses all borders.
We have spent a lot of time developing the company website over the past year or so. And this investment is now starting to pay off.”
He continued: “The involvement with the team at Studeigh allowed us to get a feel for the optimism that currently exists within Australia’s dairy sector.
“And I think this also bodes well regarding the prospects for milk production in this part of the world.”
Nicky hopes this latest deal will be the first of many and will help further grow the business, set up originally in 1973 by Victor Wilson.
“It is a further boost to the business and it is about broadening horizons. It’s nice to say we have done it and hopefully it is the first of many.”
To read more.. Subscribe to current edition
Receive quality journalism wherever you are, on any device. Keep up to date from the comfort of your own home with a digital subscription.
Any time | Any place | Anywhere