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 Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Alliance Moulding Perth acquires an ASC MEP
Client introduction: Alliance Moldings is a WA based company specializing in the rotational moulding industry. Alliance Moulding specializes in custom moulding for a range of industries-agricultural, marine, materials handling industries, mining, civil, manufacturing, aquaculture and more. The Challenge: Ian White, the manager of Alliance Moulding contacted WA Area Manager Ross Sheehan just prior to the Xmas break in 2020 with a need to see a couple of sweepers. Ian had a new larger production area to move into and was keen to see what machines ASC have to help keep the area clean. The main issue for the group was
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Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Lawn & Turf Maintenance (Victoria)
The Client Lawn & Turf Maintenance is Melbourne based company owned and run by ran by Michael McMahon. The company specializes 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 3 mechanics maintaining the equipment in his workshop as well as a large number of staff around the state. Michael had an alternative brand of sweeper prior to contacting ASC that had been very unreliable and didn’t picking up dust and soil properly
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Posted on Monday, February 15, 2021
AC Hargreaves QLD Powered Taken Over By Manual
The Client 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 Urbahn, 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. Michael was shown a demonstration of the ASC MEP sweeper and was surprised with the performance of the ASC MEP push sweeper. It worked flawlessly and was surprised how it worked
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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 have grown 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 a ASC Eureka ME push sweeper. He bought one as a result of an endorsement. Neil is closely associated with State Wide Turf Services and dropped into the ASC WA Perth office and placed an order with ASC’s Ross Sheehan for another one. The Solution: Neil arranged payment of the ASC Eureka ME push
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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 in two location on the outskirts of Perth, Bakers Hill and Northam, WA. Norrish Service Group fabricates many types of farming equipment from Boom sprays, Field bins, Multi spreaders and Harrows all designed and built by the Norrish Services Group The Challenge: Neil has a mate, Steve who was given a Eureka MEP push sweeper by his wife 12 years before to assist in cleaning at his workplace. It was still working and had been used in Neil’s shed a few times. This long lasting ASC push sweeper still
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Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2021
ASC Client solutions Atherton Orchards
Client introduction: Atherton’s Orchards has long been the supplier for outstanding high quality Pink Lady apples to markets around the world. Located in the fruit bowl of Donnybrook just under 3 hours south of Perth, a combination of well-maintained rich soils and abundance of water via the large dam and 3 x bores allows this 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 Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Heaton’s Nursery (Perwillowen QLD) invest in a new ASC M3
Client introduction. Heaton’s Nursery is based in Queensland suburb of PERWILLOWEN. They specialise in growing top quality ferns and Anthuriums from tubes to advanced stock The Problem. The company wanted a machine that could clean their walkways and production areas. They looked for a heavy duty product by design, had to be able handle high inclines as well as undulating surfaces and be manouverable. The machines also had be able 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
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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 3 hours south of Perth. They produce over 10,000 tonnes of high-grade potatoes for the domestic and international markets. The Challenge: Bendotti have many large sheds where the produce enters from various farms to be prepared for packaging and to be made into WA Chips or French Fries. With a large dirt entry there is a constant supply of dirt and dust entering the sheds, as well as many forklifts moving around the inside the sheds. They have large cool rooms so containing
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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 3 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 prior to being freighted to the ports for export. The Challenge: QE Contracting work 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 have been out in the weather for a several months and have
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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 2 cool store packing shed floor cleaners. Both families are well known Woorinen district stone fruit growers. The problem. Dean Morpeth owner of Swan Hill fruit packers recently made contact with ASC’s Ken Pepyat to discuss alternative ways that they could keep their new cold storage facility clean and dust free. Ken discussed the pros and cons of both sweeping and scrubbing his packaging shed. Dean’s main concern was to eliminate the dust build up in
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Posted on Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Vetafarm NSW invest with ASC again
Vetafarm is based in NSW picturesque region of Wagga Wagga. They are one of Australia leading companies when it comes to animal supplements locally and internationally. The problem. The company has three purpose built facilities within Wagga Wagga. They have operated a ASC M3 sweeper for more than 10 years in their warehousing facility and recently decided to add 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. Prior to purchasing the ASC Eureka E 50 scrubber they would manually mop a
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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
They have been growing apples, cherries for over 80 years. The Challenge Jacob (The Manager) contacted the ASC main office in Sydney to discuss buying another ASC MEP Sweeper. He was quickly directed to Ross Sheehan in the AS Perth office. They required a second sweeper for their loading dock where the trucks drive though, bringing dirt and dust into the facility. Being a busy packaging shed they also had forklift tyre dust to sweep. Their old ASC MEP Sweeper had performed very well over many years so the second purchase was easy given the reliability and performance of the
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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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