A market leader in the supply and installation of equipment to the modern day pig farm, Phil Bennis & Son Ltd’s Managing Director Philip Bennis tells Irish Tractor & Agri why their products are very much in demand.
If your agricultural business is producing for the meat trade, then you know that yield and quality is critical to success.
Having the right equipment for breeding, raising and managing pigs for the meat trade can increase yields and quality, enabling producers to compete effectively in a global marketplace.
Phil Bennis and his team source and import state-of-the-art equipment and machinery from around the world to supply to some of Ireland’s most successful meat and pig producers.
Established in 1985 by Phil and Mary Bennis, the family-run business has six full-time employees including sons Philip and Eoghan and son-in-law, Limerick hurling great, Ciaran Carey and is celebrating nearly 30 years supplying buildings and equipment to the pig industry.
For close on three decades, Phil Bennis & Son Ltd has been giving a personal, flexible and bespoke service to pig farmers.
By importing direct from manufacturers in 10 countries, the company makes state-of-the-art equipment and machinery available to farmers and meat producers at highly competitive prices.
Their complete product range for modern pig production includes housing, flooring, feeders and drinkers.
38-year-old Philip is Managing Director and he explained: “We buy direct from the manufacturers and install the machinery ourselves. Based in Limerick, we have customers all over Ireland, including the north, and ex-pats in England. Thankfully, we are busy enough at the moment.”
Phil Bennis & Sons supply the right equipment at the right price and they appreciate the importance of customer relations. That’s something they never have and never will take for granted.
“We’re fortunate to have a loyal customer base that will only come to us. It’s a competitive business, you have to give the best price but you can’t skimp on quality.
“We have confidence in the quality of our products which we offer at competitive prices.”
Innovative products such as their Balance Flooring helps keep them a couple of steps ahead of their competitors.
The Patrickswell-based company is the only provider of the quick and easy to install Balance Flooring in the country and the benefits of the farrowing slate with movable slow slat are multiple:
– Reduce the number of smothered and crushed piglets.
– As soon as the sow lies down, the sow’s slat will drop to the level of the piglet floor.
– When the sows gets up again, the sow slat will rise to a safe height.
– Passage for the piglets in front of and behind the sow.
– Easy operation by the sow through floor-mounted or side-mounted switching.
– Flexible positioning of the sow: straight or even diagonal set up if required.
– Labour saving: less extensive monitoring of the farrowing places.
– The piglet slats can be made of solid plastic (Blue Deck) or Super Coated expanded metal or woven wire.
As the sole importers in Ireland for respected brands such as Nooyen, Grow Feeder, Van Osch, Rotecna, Rectical, Abriso, Interheat, ECM, Centriforce, Springer McGrath, Joriside, Inter Continental, Igeba and Konk, Phil Bennis & Son can stand over their equipment.
These companies are continuously improving, testing and developing products to ensure that they are at the highest standard for increase of productivity.
Manufactured exclusively by Centriforce Products, Stokbord, for example, is a general purpose, value for money board manufactured from 100% recycled plastic, including agricultural farm film.
It can be fabricated and welded for a variety of agricultural applications, including: sheep and pig pens, poultry housing, cattle handling races, sheeting gates, feed trailer floors, grain stores and bins, lining troughs, partition boards.
This leading sheet brand, Stokbord offers more benefits than traditional plywood. It also provides significant long term cost savings as it does not rot and once installed, it requires no upkeep.
Fattener pens, meanwhile, are available in various materials – solid PVC, hammer proof HDPE panels or rock hard concrete panels together with Trespa doors, with stainless or galvanized steel posts.
Accessories such as stock prodders, pig markers, AI equipment, sluce values and canopies are also in stock.
So planning to revamp your pig finishing houses and need the right penning system? Looking for the optimum pig equipment for group housing of sows?
Look no further that Phil Bennis & Sons Ltd. Having gained the trust of so many pig farmers, they take great satisfaction in helping to ensure pig production can be carried out to its highest potential.
Phil Bennis & Sons Ltd,
The Old Creamery,
Clarina Road,
Patrickswell,
Co. Limerick.
Phone: +353 (0)61 355275
Fax: +353 (0)61 355616
E: [email protected]
Taken from Irish Tractor & Agri magazine Vol 2 No 2, June/July 2014
