Have you ever wondered how the agriculture industry takes care of its cleaning needs? Farmers, orchard owners, millers, food processing factory owners, warehouse managers, and everyone who is related directly or indirectly to the agriculture industry needs to ensure the best practices to keep their facilities clean at all times and meet the health standards. To do this, they need high-grade agriculture facility cleaning equipment such as a grain sweeper.
One such wonder that helps people in the agriculture industry keep their surroundings clean is the ASC M3 Sweeper. This small rider sweeper is one of the best dust control systems used in the country. A unique piece of agriculture facility cleaning equipment, the M3 Sweeper, combines top-notch tech and innovation, enabling agriculturists to keep large areas clean with minimum maintenance costs and downtime. Equipped with the main broom and 4 side brooms, the M3 Sweeper can make the dustiest of environments spotless in significantly less time, ensuring increased productivity and reduced labour costs. It is a must-have sweeper from ASC that aids agriculture facility cleaning.
In this section, you will find our agriculture case study material and get a chance to read the success stories of our clients located in Perth, Wagga Wagga, Sydney, Melbourne, and other cities in Australia. Learn how our sweepers and scrubbers allow the agriculture industry to pick up soil and grains, clean up large quantities of leaves and mulch, eliminate airborne and tyre dust and keep sheds clean.
Posted on Friday, October 20, 2023
Sunpork Farms
The Client Sunpork farms is located at Warra, Queensland. They operate a Feed Mill at this location. The Challenge Sunpork farms were looking for a highly effective walk behind sweeper, with a broom and vacuum combination for an animal feed mill. They had recently completed a new building, which had smooth, concrete flooring. They required the machine to sweep fine dust and feed spill that would accumulate on the floor. ASC’s Nathaniel Prasad contacted the company and organised a demonstration of the heavy duty, ASC Eureka Mach 1 battery sweeper, at their new site. The Result Following an impressive demonstration,
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Posted on Saturday, October 7, 2023
Top Strike Tube Growers
The Client Top Strike Tube Growers are based in Monbulk, in the Dandenong’s, outside of Melbourne. The Challenge Peter from Top Strike contacted ASC, after seeing an ASC MEP push sweeper in action, at a neighbouring warehouse across the road from them. Top Strike had the same problem that all plant growers have, with copious soil and leaves over the floors. Top Strike’s staff were amazed at how well the MEP push sweeper picked up the debris off the floors. They commented to ASC’s Ken Pepyat, that “this sweeper will save us a lot of time and stop dust being
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Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2023
Bundaberg Sugar
The Client Bundaberg Sugar’s Millaquin sugar mill is situated near the Burnett River, in Bundaberg, Queensland. Sugarcane produced in the nearby areas is crushed and processed at the facility, to produce raw and refined sugar. The Challenge The company was looking for a fresh start when it came to cleaning their production floors. They had in use, an extremely unreliable sweeper scrubber and asked ASC what they could offer in the way of a large capacity and reliable machine. The company had successfully used an ASC combo sweeper scrubber 9 years ago on a rental agreement and were keen on
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Posted on Saturday, September 23, 2023
Southern Plants Dromana, Victoria
The Client Southern Plants (SAP) is one of the largest wholesale production nurseries in the state of Victoria. Based in Dromana Vic, they grow quality trees, shrubs, grasses, flower plants and succulents in different sizes. The Challenge The company was looking to invest in a quality sweeper that was designed to sweep up copious amounts of farm soil and dust. They trialled 6 sweepers from various companies to see what the market had to offer, over a period of 4 weeks. They carried out intensive examinations involving their maintenance and horticulture staff. Their market research found that the only machine
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Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2023
Wattleup Tractors Heavy Duty Upgrade
The Client Wattleup Tractors has three dealerships covering Perth, Carnarvon and Kununurra, representing leading brands such as Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Iseki, Challenger and many others. They service all agricultural equipment. The Challenge The company had purchased an ASC MEP sweeper many years ago, from ASC’s Ross Sheehan. They liked the machine so much that they had asked Ross for a similar quality floor scrubber for their workshops. The Result They purchased the heavy duty, ASC Eureka E51 floor scrubber for their Wattleup Tractors in Kewdale.
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Posted on Thursday, July 27, 2023
Inghams White Sands SA
The Client Inghams is Australia’s largest integrated poultry producer. Inghams, is operating a greenfield feed mill at Murray Bridge, to supply its poultry production in South Australia. It includes grains, meal and product silos and warehousing space. The whole facility spreads at over 2,3 ha sites, at White Sands, SA. The Challenge The challenge was to find a sweeper that could keep production areas, loading areas and their yard parameter free of dust and pollutants. The sweeper would also be required to clean accidental feed spillage inside the warehouse and around the loading bays. The Solution The company chose the
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Posted on Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Wesfeeds (WA) George Western Foods
The Client George Western Foods owns locally based Wesfeeds. Their new 4.7ha site houses one of the largest animal feed producers in Australia. It’s based at Hope Valley. The Challenge The challenge was to find a sweeper that could sweep up grain throughout the site, without creating any dust discharge while sweeping. The company has very large internal roadways. Large trucks come to site to unload huge volumes of grain. The facility also has very large production areas where they receive grains, then manufacture chicken and pig pelleted food. Their biggest challenge is the capture of dust, grain, husk and
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Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2023
Ray Hasan Potato Farmers Nilma North
The Client Ray Hasan Potato Farmers is based in Nilma North, near Warragul, Victoria. The company’s prime business is growing and packaging potatoes. The Challenge Ray Hasan had a very large packing shed, which required sweeping. The company had been manually sweeping for years. ASC’s Ken Pepyat suggested that there was a better way to sweep a potato shed clean, free of farm soil. The solution he offered was more productive than the mighty hand broom. Ken suggested that Ray invest in the tried and proven ASC MEP manual sweeper, with dust control. The Result Ray Hasan Potato Farms purchased
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Posted on Monday, May 15, 2023
Pirovic Family Farms
The Client Pirovic Family Farms is proud to be one of the largest independent egg producers in NSW. They supply Australian families farm fresh eggs, such as caged, barn laid, free range and certified Organic free range eggs; also supplying a variety of catering eggs and egg products for the commercial trade, directly from the Pirovic Family Farms. The Challenge Pirovic Farms has a large sorting facility in the Sydney town of Llandilo. The factory is very large and the floors are scrubbed twice a day, to maintain what are arguably Australia’s cleanest food grade floors. CEO, Mr Franko Pirovic
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Posted on Monday, May 1, 2023
GrainCorp Port Kembla (Wollongong)
The Client Grain Corp is an Australian agribusiness and processing company. They store and handle agricultural commodities and manage a wide range of grains and pulses. The Challenge Grain Corp were looking to invest in an industrial grade sweeper, that offered a dust free sweeping solution. They were looking to sweep many materials on the perimeter of their site, ranging from thick, heavy grain, to the finest of powdery dust. The company needed to abide by strict environmental restrictions with airborne dust, as well as debris contaminating the south pacific ocean. The Result Graincorp liaised with ASC’s Scott Campbell, who
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Posted on Saturday, March 18, 2023
Milne Agri Group ASC M2- Rockingham WA
The Client Milne Agri Group is the leading stock feed producer in Western Australia. The Challenge The company recently reached out to ASC’s Ross Sheehan, for a rider sweeper. They had previously invested in an ASC Eureka E 81 floor scrubber, which they were very happy with. The new acquisition was destined for a new warehouse, that was to store all their packaging for their range of meat products. The machine was to be used for internal and external sweeping, to keep dust and gravel dust to a minimum. The Solution. The ASC Eureka M2 rider sweeper was ordered.
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Posted on Friday, March 17, 2023
Comfresh Group – Virginia SA
The Client Comfresh is one of the largest South Australian Suppliers of fresh produce; growing and distributing produce to Retailers, Providores, Supermarkets, and Wholesalers nationally. The Challenge ASC’s SA branch office in Adelaide was approached by Comfresh site Manager, Mr. Jamie Dodds, to provide a sweeping solution for their new multi-million dollar cucumber and herb packing and processing plant, in Virginia, SA. The task of the sweeper was to ensure their plant, processing and storage areas were to be totally free of soil dust, rubber dust and other pollutants. The Solution: The ASC Eureka Mach 6 large capacity, Battery rider
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Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Vennings New Dust Free Working Environment
The Client Vennings was first established in 1904. The Company has diversified into farm machinery, fuel distribution and vehicles, amongst other things. Vennings is a major employer within the Kadina district, employing a constant 35 employees. The Challenge The company manufactures a huge range of farm augers. In the process of manufacturing, they had a major issue with the clean up of dust, metal shavings and rubber offcuts. They asked ASC SA’s locally based representative, Luke Skrinjaric, for advice on how to minimise their time cleaning and deliver a dust free working environment. The Result Luke recommended that they invest
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Posted on Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Bundock Farming Thick Red Dust Challenge
The Client Bundock Farming is a large agricultural producer of potatoes and cotton, based in Wee Waa, regional NSW. The company is widely known as leading producers of potatoes, that are used in packaged chip making in NSW. The Challenge Company owner, Matt, wanted to invest in a heavy duty sweeper. The sweeper would be used to sweep clean his sheds, where his produce and machinery are stored. The sheds were large in size and covered in 6mm thick, heavy, red farm dust. He wanted a sweeper that offered long life and was designed to sweep this kind of large-scale
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Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Abela Haulage NSW Heavy Duty Sweeping Challenge
The Client Abela Haulage is based in Lakesland, 10 minutes from Picton, NSW. They are both a haulage business as well as an agricultural producer of beetroot. The Challenge The company had owned an old walk behind sweeper, which needed upgrading. They have two large sheds, housing agricultural and haulage equipment. The sheds were always filling up with farm dirt and mud. They were looking for a solution and asked ASC’s Scott Campbell to visit them and recommend a solution. The Result The company purchased a heavy duty ASC Eureka M1 sweeper, after Scott had provided them with an onsite
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Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Nutrien York MEP
Client introduction: Nutrien Ag Solutions, York, is located approx. 1.5 hours east of Perth. It is the historical and agricultural town of York. They provide the area with many products from the agricultural sector, including livestock supplements, wool products, water/irrigation and fertilisers. The Challenge: Branch Manager, Jono, remembered that ASC’s Area Manager, Ross Sheehan, had dropped off a sweeper brochure many months ago. Jono was setting up a new premises for Nutrien Ag Solutions, at 46 Avon Terrace in York and asked about the ASC MEP sweeper. The new site needed a machine capable of sweeping both the warehouse and
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Posted on Sunday, December 4, 2022
Sunripe Tomatoes QLD ASC M3 Sound Investment
The Client Sunripe are the largest producer of field-grown snacking tomatoes in Australia . Based in Meadowvale, QLD, they operate massive growing and packaging farms that distribute their produce through the supermarket chains across Australia. The Challenge The company recently asked ASC for a recommendation to solve their packaging and distribution dust issues. They wanted a sweeper that was able to sweep clean, acres of concreted apron as well as their internal washing and packaging sheds. The result. An ASC Eureka M3 heavy duty farm grade sweeper was ordered and delivered to site, with a full induction given.
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Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2022
Dobe Farming Packing Sheds Cleaning Challenge
The Client Dobe Farming company is a large fruit and vegetable organisation based in Bowen, North Queensland. The Challenge The company has large packing sheds which require frequent sweeping. The build-up of farm dust and debris in the packaging sheds was quite challenging for the company and the group was looking to automate manual cleaning, with a high efficiency dust free sweeper. The Result The company chose the heavy-duty ASC Eureka Mach 5 sweeper as a means of reducing labour and eliminating their dust issues.
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Posted on Friday, September 2, 2022
No More Dust Clouds For Mt Pleasant Produce
The Client Mt Pleasant Produce is a specialist potato grower, catering to the gourmet restaurants market. They supply and grow different types of potatoes, which are grown at their Rocklyn sites in Victoria. The Challenge Rod from Mt Pleasant had a huge dust and dirt problem in his packaging sheds. He could no longer keep on top of it by using brooms and shovels. Manually sweeping the dust would result in dust clouds landing on everything. Rod contacted ASC after seeing an online video of the ASC Eureka MEP push sweeper. The Result Rod ordered the ASC MEP and has
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Posted on Thursday, August 4, 2022
Animal Health Perth Warehouse Sweeper Investment
Client introduction Animal Health Solutions is based in Canning Vale, WA. They are a local WA company that supports the huge range of pet products to the specialty retailers, including vets, rural and produce stores. They have been providing this service for over 30 years. Animal Health Solutions have a large and very busy logistics side, plus the warehousing of many types of animal health items. The Challenge Brent, the Operations Manager, had used a contract sweeping company to visit the site, on a scheduled sweeping arrangement. This meant moving an incredible amount of stock each time, to allow the
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Posted on Monday, April 4, 2022
Dardanup Bobcat Services Bunbury WA Large Capacity Sweeper Requirement
The Client Dardanup Bobcat Services is a specialist machinery and services supplier in the Banbury area of WA. They operate both sweepers and industrial plant. The Challenge The company has a significant logistics contract with the Laminex Group to supply specialist services. As a long-term user of ASC sweepers John (Managing Director) from the Dardanup Group asked ASC’s Perth based Ross Sheehan for a recommendation to procure an additional ASC sweeper. It had to be a large capacity sweeper that would sweep the Laminex grounds their large production floors. Extremely fine timber dust was the main issue the plant had
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Posted on Thursday, March 10, 2022
Arhardis Brothers dust, farm soil and tyre rubber Challenge
The Client Arharidis Brothers are grocery producers based in Virginia, SA. They are well known as one of largest capsicum farms in the Adelaide region who supply both Coles and Woolworths. The Challenge Terry and John Arharidis (Owners) had a dust problem in their packing sheds. The nature of farming means a high exposure to dust, farm soil and tyre rubber dust entering from the farm to the packing, storage & cool rooms. The pair asked locally based Adelaide ASC Representative Luke Skrinjaric to attend their site and recommend a simple and reliable solution to their cleaning issues. The Solution
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Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Nutrien Wongan Hills Out With The Old
The Client Nutrien Ag Solutions provide a huge range of products and services from crop protection and plant nutrition products to detailed advice on livestock. The Challenge Murray from Nutrien purchased a ASC MEP sweeper many years ago for his original warehouse. Having moved to new premises at Wongan Hills, he wanted to replace an old yellow sweeper he found in his new facility with a product that actually worked. The Result. An order was placed for a new ASC MEP.
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Posted on Friday, January 21, 2022
Cordina Farms Maintains A Constant Cleaning Regime
Client Introduction Cordina Chicken Farms is an Australian owned family business with 75 years experience in the Poultry business. Founded in 1948, Cordina were privileged to be among one of Australia’s only exporters to supply chickens to England after WWII. The Company produces a complete range of fresh chicken products to major supermarkets like Woolworths and Coles as well as delicatessens, restaurants and other food outlets. Cordina Farms still occupies its original site today and now exports worldwide. The Challenge The company has many different production sections. This includes a processing plant converting chicken into well-known nuggets, popcorn and many
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Posted on Friday, January 14, 2022
Pirovic Family Farms Invests In a ASC M1
The Client Pirovic Family Farms is one of the largest independent egg producers in NSW supplying Australian families farm fresh eggs such as Caged, Barn Laid, Free Range and Certified Organic Free Range Eggs. They also supply a variety of catering eggs and egg products for the commercial trade directly from the Pirovic Family Farms. The Pirovic name is well known in the Egg Industry and a very identifiable brand name in the Supermarket chains. The Challenge The company had previously owned a competitive brand sweeper in their Sydney distribution centre. Unfortunately, the machine had become problematic, highly unreliable and
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Posted on Friday, November 12, 2021
Cummaudo Farms Cleans Up Their Packaging Sheds
The Client. Cummaudo Farms was founded in Mirboo North, Victoria, in 1959. It is a third-generation family business supplying Australia with great tasting, quality potatoes. The company is well-known for supplying quality wholesale potatoes to Coles and Australia’s wholesale markets. The Challenge. Tony Cummaudo had the ongoing problem of farm dust and soil blowing into his packaging shed, from adjacent paddocks and when they unload and load trucks with potatoes. The brown farm dust builds up quite quickly and creates a film of dust on the packing shed floors.. The Directors, Tony and Tom, asked ASC’s Ken Pepyat for a
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Posted on Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Hydreco Hydraulics Welcomes ASC Eureka E51
Client Introduction Hydreco Hydraulics is based in the industrial suburb of Kewdale (Perth). They manufacture an extensive range of hydraulic pumps and valves to suit many different applications. The Challenge Dean from Hydreco was looking around in the market for a reliable floor scrubber to replace his existing machine. His existing floor-scrubbing machine was not performing efficiently and was costing too much when it came to running and maintenance. The Hydreco workshop has a large prime mover truck driving in and out to have specialized hydraulics fitted. The painted workshop floor has demarcations to show safe zones, walkways, and areas
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Posted on Sunday, August 22, 2021
Fertpro Manufacturing Sweeping Challenge
Client Introduction Fertpro Manufacturing is a well-known Qld-based fertilizer manufacturing and custom blending company. They have a wide range of products that are widely used in the agriculture, horticulture, sports, turf & civil industries. They manufacture fertilizer powder, granular & liquid fertilizers, soil amendments, mineral trace elements, and organic fertilizer processing. The Challenge The company was looking for a heavy-duty sweeper capable of sweeping large amounts of fertilizer without creating a dust storm. For that matter, they were researching the market as they needed an adiesel-operated sweeper with good manoeuvrability as well as low running costs. The Result The company
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Posted on Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Serafin Ag Pro Expands With A ASC D100
Client Introduction Serafin Ag Pro is an agricultural superstore located in Griffith NSW, which sells new and used farm machinery, as well as spare parts. They also repair and service most make and models of farm machinery. They supply agricultural equipment and spare parts for tractors, headers, grape harvesters, broadacre sprayers, vineyard sprayers, horticultural sprayers, spreaders, mulchers, rotary hoes, seeders, discs, lawnmowers and UTVs. The Challenge Serafin is continuously expanding the company to service their customers. The company’s owner, Darryl Serafin, is building a new large facility in Griffith. This large country town is full of red dust and clay
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Posted on Friday, July 30, 2021
Jowemba Eradicates it’s Dust Clouds
Client Introduction Jowemba Pty Ltd is a strawberry runner/grower in Toolangi, a rural township in Victoria. The Challenge John Busacca, the manager at Jowemba, contacted ASC’s Manager Ken Pepyat to discuss the huge dust and dirt issue that they were facing in their maintenance sheds. They were already using a sweeper from some other brand, however, the employees weren’t satisfied with its performance as it created too much noise and dust pollution in the shed environment. Ken Pepyatarranged the demonstration of the ASC Eureka M3 battery-powered sweeper so that John could see the performance of the sweeper on his floor.
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Posted on Friday, July 23, 2021
Greener Lawn Supplies NSW Cleans Up
Client Introduction Greener Lawn is a small family-owned turf supplier, which provides fresh, high-quality, weed-free turf varieties. The Challenge Constant farm machinery moves in and out of their lawn sheds and workshops. The tyres of these machines drag in dirt, sand, and rocks onto the floors creating a mess. At times, this issue would create mud that turned into a fine dust. Greener Lawn needed a solution ASAP. They were looking for a low-maintenance and robust machine. The Solution Greener Lawn’s owner Anthony investigated what was on the industrial market and found the ASC MEP Eureka vacuum push sweeper. ASC’s
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Posted on Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Cassegrain Kalara Tea Tree Oil Cleans Up With ASC
Client Introduction Cassegrain Kalara Tea Tree Oil is a family-owned and runs the company. It is among the largest producers of 100% pure Australian tea tree oil in the world. It grows over 14 Million plants on an area of 360 hectares to produce one of the freshest and most natural tea tree oils available across the world. The Challenge Cassegrain had been facing the challenge of dealing with lots of dust since they started in 1997. They invested in many different sweepers to take up the challenge of containing the dust from the harvesting process. However, none of them
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Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Enviro Culture’s ASC Littervac
Client Introduction Enviro Culture is a leading services provider to both NSW and Victorian Governments. They specialize in all aspects of commercial landscaping, including playgrounds and parks. They also provide maintenance and rehabilitation works in sensitive environments. The Challenge Enviro Culture uses Littervac sweepers to their advantage. After the completion of any project, they always clean their sites, so they are dust and leaf-free. The advantages of using the Littervac sweepers for these jobs include easy transportation on a UTE or truck, ease of use, efficiency and easy maintenance. Recently the company made an inquiry with ASC to know about
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Posted on Friday, July 9, 2021
Zerella Fresh Adelaide Invests With ASC M6
Client Introduction Zerella Fresh is one of the leading suppliers and packers of potatoes, onions and carrots in Australia. They have been in the Potato, Carrot, Onion and Pumpkin business in South Australia since 1936. They grow, package and distribute across Australia. The Challenge The Zerella packaging facility in Virginia (SA) is a very large company covering a huge area. Truck and tractor deliveries are constant. Continuous deliveries of fresh produce come in from the fields to be packaged in their huge sheds. Farm dirt, tyre marks, water, and dust, are very common in packaging sheds. Managers of these packaging
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Posted on Friday, June 25, 2021
Nutrien WA Solves It’s Dust & Debris
Client Introduction Nutrien Ag Solutions Geraldton and Northampton are located in the Mid West of WA. They cover a huge area where farms have varied uses ranging from livestock, broadacre cropping, and fruit crops to specialized hobby farms. Nutrien covers all these fields of land use as well as finance and food for the very important kelpies. The Challenge WA Area Manager Ross Sheehan belongs to this area and casually dropped in to see their Northampton site. The site had two large warehouses and a large concrete apron joining them. Murray, the Northampton manager, was using a 240V industrial vacuum
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Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2021
CEA Sydney Invest With An ASC Machine
Client Introduction CEA is the leading distributor for world-renowned capital equipment brands, including JCB agricultural and construction equipment, Atlas Copco, Ditch Witch, Dynapac and Komptech. The Challenge CEA has a very large facility in Sydney west. This facility is the home to multiple agricultural and earthmoving machines. Moreover, it also undertakes both pre-delivery on new machinery and conducts services on multiple machines. The facility is required to be swept every day to pick up nuts, bolts, oily rags and embedded dust, which is brought into the facility by the trucks and general maintenance. The facility management recently went to the
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Posted on Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Alliance Moulding Perth acquires an ASC MEP
Client Introduction Alliance Moldings is a WA-based company that specializes in the rotational moulding industry. They are specialists in custom moulding for various industries from agricultural, marine, and materials handling industries to mining, civil, manufacturing, aquaculture and many more. The Challenge Ian White, the manager for Alliance Moulding, contacted WA Area Manager Ross Sheehan prior to their Christmas break in 2020 and requested to test a couple of the ASC sweepers. As Ian was soon moving to a larger production area, he was keen on seeing the ASC sweepers and whether they would be able to keep the huge area
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Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Lawn & Turf Maintenance (Victoria)
Client Introduction Lawn & Turf Maintenance is a Melbourne-based company owned and run by Michael McMahon. The company specialises in Lawn & Turf Maintenance as well as turf and irrigation repairs on golf courses around Victoria and Southern New South Wales. The Challenge Michael McMahon has a large fleet of tractors and implements. He has three mechanics maintaining the equipment in his workshop as well as a huge staff around the state. Michael had an alternative brand of sweeper prior to contacting ASC that had proven unreliable and as it didn’t pick up the dust and soil properly. Michael contacted
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Posted on Monday, February 15, 2021
AC Hargreaves QLD Powered Taken Over By Manual
Client Introduction AC Hargreaves Pty Ltd is based in Seventeen Mile Rocks QLD. They are a family-owned company that specialises in the supply and repair of Electric Motors, Pumps, and Transformers. The Challenge Michael Urban, the Divisional Manager of the Group, was looking for an option to replace their battery-powered walk-behind machine that blew a lot of dust. Dust retention was his biggest concern. The Solution Rafael demonstrated the ASC MEP sweeper for Michael, who was surprised with the performance of the ASC MEP push sweeper. It worked flawlessly even without the batteries. An order was placed to ASC’s Rafael
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Posted on Tuesday, February 2, 2021
State Wide Turf Services
Client Introduction State Wide Turf Service is a WA-based turf renovation service. They started small and grew into one of the largest service providers in the state. They employ over 30 operators throughout Australia. The Challenge Recently, Neil Norrish from Norrish Services had purchased an ASC Eureka MEP push sweeper. He bought one because of an endorsement. Neil is closely associated with State Wide Turf Services, dropped into the ASC WA Perth office, and placed an order with ASC’s Ross Sheehan for another one. The Solution Neil arranged the payment of the ASC Eureka ME push sweeper over the phone
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Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Norrish Services Group WA
Client Introduction Neil and Bess run a very successful fabrication business, Norrish Services, in two locations on the outskirts of Perth, Bakers Hill, and Northam, WA. Norrish Service Group fabricates many types of farming equipment, from Boom sprays and Field bins to Multi spreaders and Harrows, all designed and built by them. The Challenge Neil has a mate, Steve, who was given a Eureka MEP push sweeper by his wife 12 years prior to assist in cleaning at his workplace. The Eureka was still operational and was used in Neil’s shed several times to clean it. This 12-year-old durable ASC
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Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2021
ASC Client solutions Atherton Orchards
Client Introduction Atherton’s Orchards are the supplier of outstanding high-quality Pink Lady apples to markets around the world. They are located in the fruit bowl of Donnybrook, just under 3 hours south of Perth. The combination of well-maintained rich soils and abundance of water via the large dam as well as3 x bores allows their property to produce the highest quality fruit. The Challenge Steve and Narita (owners of Atherton Orchards) surprised WA’s Manager Ross Sheehan when they walked into the ASC Perth warehouse minutes after the new ASC signage had been installed. They were in Perth for a short
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Posted on Monday, December 21, 2020
Sunpalm Aust warehousing
Client Introduction Sunpalm Australia Pty is an Australian-owned organisation with its R&D and manufacturing facility in Wangara, Perth. They produce gardening industry products. Premium Plastics and Langley Fertilizers (a subdivision of Sunpalm Australia) have produced high-quality plastic pots and slow-release fertilisers for the nursery and retail sectors. The Challenge Parit is the Logistics Manager for Sunpalm. Recently, he contacted Ross Sheehan, the WA Area Manager for ASC, looking for a solution to their dust problem. Parit was about to invest in a forklift sweeper attachment; however, he wanted to explore more options. Meanwhile, he came across the ASC webpage while
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Posted on Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Heaton’s Nursery (Perwillowen QLD) invest in a new ASC M3
Client Introduction Heaton’s Nursery is based in a Queensland suburb of PERWILLOWEN. They specialize in growing top-quality ferns and Anthuriums from tubes to advanced stock. The Problem Heaton’s Nursery was looking for a machine that could clean their walkways and production areas. They needed a heavy-duty product by design that could handle high inclines as well as undulating surfaces while being maneuverable. The machine also needed to pick up large quantities of mulch, leaves, and dust from their busy walkways and work areas. The Solution ASC’s Rafael Rodrigues surveyed the site and recommended the ASC Heavy Duty M3 petrol Sweeper.
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Posted on Monday, September 7, 2020
Solving Bendotti Exporters Extensive Dirt and Dust
Client Introduction Bendotti Exporters is based in the fruit bowl of the Southern Forests town of Manjimup, which is three hours south of Perth. They produce over 10,000 tonnes of high-grade potatoes for the domestic and international markets. The Challenge Bendotti has many large sheds where the produce comes in from various farms to be prepared for packaging as well as to be made into WA Chips or French Fries. Due to the huge incoming, there is a constant supply of dirt and dust entering the sheds. Moreover, the movement of the forklift within the sheds also produces dirt inside.
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Posted on Monday, August 3, 2020
QE Contracting (WA) East Perth
Client Introduction QE Contracting is a rural family-run business which is located three hours east of Perth in Kellerberrin. Quinten and Erin (Owners) are contractors to CBH. They are responsible for cleaning and repairing the tarpaulins used to cover the wheat after harvest and prior to being freighted to the ports for export. The Challenge QE Contracting works in a huge disused wheat silo. Inside the silo, they receive dozens of large tarps daily. Their job is to check for holes, rips and to repair them when possible. These returned tarps had been out in the weather for several months
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Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Sharp Fruit Are Looking Sweet ASC Machines
Introduction Local Swan Hill Fruit Grower identities KA & AM Young and Morpeth Farms recently joined the ranks with ASC for the supply of two cool store packing shed floor cleaners. Both families are well knownWoorinen district stone, fruit growers. The problem Dean Morpeth, the owner of Swan Hill fruit packers, contacted ASC’s Ken Pepyatrecently to discuss alternative ways for keeping their new cold storage facility clean and dust-free. Ken discussed with him the pros and cons of both sweeping and scrubbing their packaging shed. Dean’s main concern was to eliminate the dust build-up in his new state-of-the-art shed. He
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Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Vetafarm NSW invest with ASC again
Vetafarmis based in the NSW picturesque region of Wagga Wagga. They are one of the leading Australian companies when it comes to animal supplements locally and internationally. The problem The company has three purpose-built facilities within Wagga Wagga. They have been using an ASC M3 sweeper for more than 10 years in their warehousing facility. They now wanted to add a floor scrubber for their new state-of-the-art GMP-approved pharmaceutical plant and the food manufacturing facility operating in the suburb of Bomen, on Wagga’s outskirts. Before purchasing the ASC Eureka E 50 scrubber, they used manual mops on a large expanse
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Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2020
Advantage Petroleum goes with ASC
Advantage Petroleum is a Western Sydney based premium petroleum and lubricants delivery service. Proudly Australian owned and operated independently, they run 10 big prime fuel carriers to give its clientele the best of both worlds: premium fuel to rival any major distributor, but with competitive pricing and family-oriented customer service. The Challenge; Advantage petroleum has a depot in the Sydney suburb of Windsor. They wanted to keep their facility clean to reflect their ongoing quality control. They sought a solution to save them time cleaning and eliminating airborne dust. The Solution The purchased a MEP sweeper with a dust control
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Posted on Saturday, January 18, 2020
ASC MEP Sweeper Cleans Up Quickly with Minimal Maintenance
Newton Orchards have been growing apples and cherries for over 80 years. The Challenge Jacob (The Manager) of Newton Orchards contacted the ASC main office in Sydney to discuss buying another ASC MEP Sweeper. Jacob was directed to Ross Sheehan in the AS Perth office. They needed another sweeper for their loading dock, where the trucks drive through and bring dirt and dust into their facility. As they have a very busy packaging shed, the forklift tyre dust also needed some serious sweeping. As they were already very satisfied with the performance and longevity of the ASC MEP Sweeper, making
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Posted on Thursday, October 3, 2019
Legacy Packaging Loves Their ASC Eureka Floor Scrubber
Legacy Packaging in Victoria’s Northern Fruit growing region recently invested in a heavy duty ASC Eureka E 61 floor scrubber. The Challenge Legacy Packaging pack various citrus and stone fruits for delivery around Australia. Their floors can get quite greasy and slippery so they needed a solution to be able to eliminate spills as well as maintaining a high level of floor hygiene. The Solution Dean Trembath (Operations Manager) called ASC after using the ASC product in his previous roles at Leeton NSW. Knowing the quality of the Eureka scrubbers from his previous experience he ordered the machine without a
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Posted on Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Ex-Fleet Mach 3 Sweeper Keeps The Highway Tractor Spares’ Huge Facility Dust Free
Highway Tractor Spares (Dandenong) recently purchased a ASC ex Fleet ASC Mach 3sweeper for their Dandenong facility. The machines is used to sweep the huge yard apron as well as the warehouse and parts area. The purchase of the ASC Mach 3 has meant that the facility can be kept clean year round and eliminates the issue of airborne dust. Highway Tractor Spares (HTS) specialises in the sale & dismantling of heavy construction equipment, as well as the sale of high quality aftermarket Volvo replacement parts. It is a large facility that took advantage of investing in a pre-loved ASC
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Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Universal Cotton Supplier, Olam Cotton Lowers its Material Handling Costs with an Investment in the ASC M6
Olam Cotton, a worldwide supplier of cotton to the textile markets, has purchased an ASC M6 Sweeper to keep their massive Dalby (Qld) facility clean. As local growers, all the cotton collected from their farm needs to be packed in bales prior to being exported around the world. Olam Cotton has a massive warehouse where these cotton bales are stored and packed. The process of storing and packing cotton is a very dusty one. There is a lot of dust that finds its way into the warehouse. This includes farm soil, tyre dust from trucks and forklifts as well as
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Posted on Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Tumbar Grazing Purchases the ASC M3 Sweeper to Keep Massive New Farm Shed Free from Red Outback Dust
Just after selling half its land interests in one of Queensland’s largest grazing properties, Tumbar Grazing (covering almost 69,000ha,) recently invested in an ASC M3 sweeper. Alison Doyle (co-owner with husband Bevan Doyle ) purchased the ASCM3 sweeper to keep her massive new farm shed free from dust. There so much red dust in the outback that keeping sheds clean can be a difficult process. The ASC M3 makes light works of what was once a challenging and time consuming job. Barcaldine has a small population of approximately 1,500 people and is known as the Garden City of the West. It
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Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2018
Luke Graham of Broomfield Estate Trusted ASC for His Farming Shade Cleaning.
Luke Graham, Manager of the Broomfield Estate, recently invested in an ASC Eureka M3 sweeper to sweep their new 1700 square metre purpose built farming shed which houses headers, huge John Deere Tractors and spraying equipment to maintain their 7000+ acre farm. The Wiltuna area, located near the SA York Peninsula is known as one of the best farming areas in South Australia. Having the new ASC Eureka M3 ride on sweeper has made cleaning the massive shed a lot more bearable and time efficient. Prior to the arrival of the ASC Eureka M3 sweeper, the shed was hand swept which could not be done
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