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Dairy Engineering & Technology

Designed Around Your Dairy.

Robotic milking, parlours, automation and cooling — planned, installed and supported across Northern Ireland.

Established 1960 · Northern Ireland · Third-Generation

Complete Dairy Systems.
Planned To Work Together.

Four areas of capability, planned as one dairy rather than four separate purchases.

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CAD plan, or a plan paired with the finished dairy.

How We Think

We Plan The Dairy, Not Just The Equipment.

We look at the complete operation before we look at equipment. How cows move, how people move, where milk goes, how machinery gets in — and what the farm might need in ten years' time.

  • Cow flow — routes to and from milking, without bottlenecks.
  • Human flow — a few metres saved in a daily routine becomes kilometres over a year.
  • Milk flow — milking, transfer, cooling and storage as one connected system.
  • Machinery flow — feeding, scraping and service access designed in from the start.
Real Projects

Built On Farms. Not Brochures.

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Featured Project

Glenn's Farm

Carryduff · Co. Down

Project in progress

The move to robotic milking was driven by labour requirements and the aim of getting more from individual cows through voluntary movement and more frequent milking opportunities.

  • System6 × Fullwood Merlin
  • HerdApprox. 360 cows
  • AlsoMilk silo supplied through Liscarroll Engineering
  • StatusCompletion planned January 2027
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Real Work

Experience You Can See In The Work.

Robotics, parlours, automation and cooling — installed and supported on working farms across Northern Ireland.

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Robotic installation on a real farm.

Robotic milkingFullwood Merlin installations
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Parlour installation, any scale.

Milking parloursHerringbone, parallel and rotary
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Automation equipment in operation.

Dairy automationFeeding, scraping and sorting
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Tank, silo or heat recovery installation.

Milk coolingTanks, silos and heat recovery
Dairy Supplies

We Don't Stop At Installation.

Dairy chemicals, everyday consumables and technical spare parts — supplied alongside the systems we install and support.

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24/7365 DAYS A YEAR
Always On

Support That Never Clocks Off.

Dairy farming doesn't keep office hours. Neither do we.

Whatever the day, whatever the hour, there is a way to reach us.

  • By phoneSpeak directly to someone who understands your system.
  • Remote supportMany issues can be investigated and resolved without waiting for a site visit.
  • On the farmWhere a fault requires hands-on attention, our engineers can diagnose and resolve it on site.
Established 1960

Built On Experience.
Ready For What's Next.

Three generations of the same family have worked alongside Northern Ireland dairy farmers. The equipment has changed almost beyond recognition; the approach has not. We still start by understanding the individual farm.

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Genuine archive photograph — early machinery or the original premises.

Then
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Modern counterpart — a robotic or automated dairy today.

Now

Planning Your Next Dairy Project?

Start with a conversation about your farm, your current operation and where you want to go next.