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AGRO Merchants Make Further Investment in NI
AGRO Merchants Make Further Investments in its Northern Irish Business
AGRO Merchants Group has announced further investments into its business in Northern Ireland, primarily focused on transportation.
The company will add new trucks and trailers to its transport fleet, which now consists of approximately 300 trucks and 600 refrigerated and curtain-side trailers. In addition to increasing the fleet, the company is enhancing its transport management system and reinforcing key areas of the business to support further growth in the next five years. “These new investments and service upgrades will allow us to better accommodate our clients’ requirements,” said Derek Sawyers, founder of Sawyers Transport, which now operates as AGRO Merchants Lurgan. Derek has been an essential part of the leadership team in Lurgan since the company joined AGRO Merchants Group and is back at the helm, leading again the company’s day-to-day operations. Andy Henderson, Managing Director of AGRO Merchants UK & Ireland, said: “We are fully committed to improving our service offering and growing our businesses in Ireland. Our latest investment into transport equipment and technology helps AGRO achieve this goal. “We have an unrivalled presence in the region, and we are putting a great effort into developing and integrating our businesses across the UK and Ireland (Lurgan, Castleblayney, Lough Egish, Dublin and Whitchurch). We offer a variety of services, including cold storage, transportation, packaging and a range of value-added services and we are working closely with our customers to tailor our solutions to their particular needs.” AGRO Merchants recently acquired a new facility at the Food Central in Dublin, which is an ideal location for both domestic and imported products. The facility was constructed in 2018 and fitted for both chilled and frozen storage.
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MAN produces small production run of all-electric trucks
MAN Truck & Bus was one of the first European commercial vehicle manufacturers to successfully put e-mobility on the road together with its customers. MAN is now following up with a small production run of the MAN TGM 26.360 E LL distribution truck. The vehicle is being built at the MAN plant in Steyr, Austria.
The MAN eTGM meets all the essential demands for the urban delivery traffic of the future: It emits zero emissions in local operation, and runs quietly. And the truck has a payload capacity comparable to its counterpart with a conventional combustion engine. The e-truck for medium and heavy-duty distribution traffic can be configured as a refrigerated vehicle with either a swap body or beverage body. The all-electric MAN eTGM distribution vehicle is offered in a three-axle 6x2-4 chassis configuration as a 26-tonner with a steerable and liftable trailing axle and four-corner air suspension. The electric distribution vehicle is powered by a 264 kW electric motor, developing a maximum torque of 3,100 Nm. Auxiliary units such as power steering, air compressors and the airconditioning system are operated electrically, are controlled as required by the energy management system and are thus energy-saving. Brake energy is recovered (referred to as “recuperation”): when decelerating and braking, the vehicle’s motive energy is converted into electrical energy and fed back into the battery. This technology can significantly increase the vehicle’s range. A display in the cockpit informs the driver about the batteries’
current energy level. The truck is powered by highperformance lithium-ion batteries made by the Volkswagen Group, which are located underneath the cab on top of the front axle, where conventional vehicles have their diesel power train. Additional batteries are located on the vehicle frame. The range is up to 200 kilometres, depending on the area of application, climatic conditions and topography.
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