Entries by Lucy Nicholls

Terra Firma Machinery Portfolio Expanded

Terra Firma Machinery Portfolio Expanded: Terra Firma has expanded its portfolio with the addition of four new brands, significantly increasing its groundcare machinery offering. Terra Firma, one of Scotland’s largest specialist suppliers to the amenity and local authority markets, has recently announced dealership agreements with Kioti UK Ltd, Muthing flail mowers, Woods finishing mowers and Shibaura slope mowers. […]

Pellenc Introduced At SRUC Oatridge

Pellenc Introduced At SRUC Oatridge: Students studying landscaping, horticulture and agricultural engineering at the unique SRUC Oatridge campus in West Lothian near Edinburgh recently participated in an event which gave them the opportunity to discover more about Pellenc’s innovative battery technology and gain some hands on experience with a wide range of equipment. SRUC College is […]

SALTEX Shapes The Future Of Groundscare

SALTEX Shapes The Future Of Groundscare: From robotics to hybrid mowers and digital apps, ground-breaking ideas to thought provoking debates, career enhancing advice to limitless opportunities; the recent SALTEX 2018 at the NEC in Birmingham was a landscape packed with possibilities and prospects for the future of groundscare. Europe’s largest annual groundscare event featured 300 […]

ICL’s Four-Year Seaweed Project

ICL’s Four-Year Seaweed Project: ICL has teamed up with Royal Holloway, University of London to embark on a unique four-year research project which will look in depth at the effects of seaweed products on turfgrass plant parasitic nematodes.  The project is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and ICL. “It came about […]

Quadraplay Praised At Dudley Kingswinsford RFC

Quadraplay Praised At Dudley Kingswinsford RFC: After recommendation from Keith Kent, head groundsman for the RFU, a volunteer groundsman at Dudley Kingswinford Rugby Club in the West Midlands purchased a SISIS Quadraplay, and was full of praise for the single pass maintenance system. Founded in 1922, Dudley Kingswinford is an English rugby union football club which was originally […]