Pictured above: Brian Knight (left) Terry Fixter
(centre) and Mike Would, directors of FarmGEM Limited, the UK's new
sprayer manufacturer which will be launching its first machine at
LAMMA 2010.
FarmGEM may be a new name in agricultural sprayers but the men
behind the company about to hit the market have distinguished
pedigrees and knowledge in this specialist farm machinery
sector.
Mike Would, founder of GEM Sprayers, whose machines can still be
seen providing good service in the fields of Britain, Brian Knight,
managing director of Knight Farm Machinery Limited and Terry
Fixter, former production director of GEM Sprayers have pooled
their resources and formed FarmGem Limited, a company which is to
make its debut at the forthcoming LAMMA (Lincolnshire Agricultural
Machinery Manufacturers Association) show in January 2010.
The company, based at Southwell, Nottinghamshire, plans to
promote and sell a mid-range of trailed and mounted sprayers from
200 litres 2metre booms up to 4,000 litres capacity with boom
widths up to 28 metres both to the agricultural, horticultural and
leisure sectors.
The machines will be manufactured in Hungary by an associate
company, Farmgep, the country's leading sprayer manufacturer with
whom FarmGEM directors have enjoyed a long-standing and close
working relationship.
"The design knowledge and experience that Brian Knight and
myself together with Farmgep's manufacturing capability combine to
make what we believe will be a winning formula for success for
FarmGEM to supply a good product range at the right price," said
director, Mike Would.
"We have established that there is a growing demand for quality,
competitively priced sprayers of these capacities in the UK and in
Europe and we are well advanced in setting up dealer networks to
handle sales. The response by dealers keen to market and sell
FarmGEM sprayers has been excellent and we feel very confident that
we have a range to meet what we see as pent-up demand," said
managing director Terry Fixter.
"The investment in FarmGEM and with Farmgep has two benefits. It
provides an opportunity to become involved in markets and products
not covered by Knight Farm Machinery and to supply self propelled
sprayers into Hungary through reciprocal arrangements with
Farmgep," said director, Brian Knight.
FarmGem will be launching its first machine at LAMMA in
Jaunuary.