The products were designed by Michael French and Colin Harty
Colin is a part time oyster farmer and dairy farmer.
He raises his oysters from seed and sells them when they are half grown.
Colin approached Michael with an idea and asked him to design and make a prototype machine to help Colin keep up with the turning of bags on his farm.
Michael has 10 years experience working as a lead Design Engineer in R&D in both Abbey Machinery (https://www.abbeymachinery.com/) and more recently Tanco Autowrap (https://tanco.global/).
When the prototype worked better than expected, it was decided to apply for a patent on the machine.
Michael is now working full time for TráTech and has set up in his own workshop to manufacture the products.
Before the machine Colin had 300,000 seed every year and struggled to turned it by hand usually only every 6 to 8 weeks.
Now with the machine Colin has increased his seed this year to 1 million and is able to get all the turning done every 4 weeks.
Next year Colin plans to buy 1.5 million seed.
Colin suffers from arthritis is satisfied he can not only stay oyster farming but grow the business now.
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