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`September 2, 2015
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`by JIM ALGIE
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`When Nuhn Industries Inc. of Sebringville began building its self-propelled Lagoon
`Crawler agitation pump 18 months ago, the company set its marketing sights on
`large-scale livestock operations mostly in the United States.
`Since then, it has sold the remote-controlled, four-wheel-drive "agitation boats" to
`customers in Russia, China, the United States, Alberta and Manitoba. By early
`August the company had completed more than 100 units. Now, it's cranking out
`the US $165,000 units at the rate of two weekly and beginning to find Ontario
`buyers, vice-president Ian Nuhn said in an interview on Wednesday.
`While large-scale livestock operations and the manure contractors who serve them
`remain likely targets, the 113-year-old family-owned business has discovered
`unexpected demand in surprising places, Nuhn said by cell phone from
`Drummondville, Quebec. He was there showing company wares at the nearby
`Expo-Champs farm show.
`"Originally we designed it for the big, 30-acre lagoons in California; but we're
`finding more success in smaller pits around home," Nuhn said.
`As well, mining operators have begun to show interest in the equipment as a way
`to manage settling pond sediments.
`In August, Nuhn Industries opened a 34,000 sq. ft. addition to the company's
`Sebringville factory near Stratford. The company now has 85 employees and an
`annual growth rate Nuhn estimated at 40 per cent. He attributes a significant
`share of the growth to the development of the crawler and describes it as a major
`addition to the company's existing lines of manure handling equipment.
`Newspaper coverage of the company's expansion led to interest from Discovery
`Channel producers of The Daily Planet, a science magazine program. An item on
`the Lagoon Crawler is to appear Thursday, Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. during the program's
`Extreme Machines Week feature series.
`stablished in 1902 by Ian's great-grandfather Simon Nuhn, a blacksmith, the
`amily company began specializing in manure handling equipment in the mid-
`900s under his father, Dennis Nuhn, who remains the major shareholder and is
`he company's president. Ian's mother, Marilyn, his sister, an uncle, aunt and
`rother-in-law are also involved.
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`Currently in charge of equipment design, Ian has about 12 years with the
`company. As the only family member who knew how to run a computer at the
`time, he became involved after the acquisition of a computerized plasma cutter.
`With a patent pending on the company's "amphibious agitator" crawler, Nuhn has
`continued high hopes for the device.
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`"We have about five in Ontario and we don't even have lagoons," Nuhn said. The
`increasing use of sand as bedding in large, dairy bans can lead to liquid manure-
`handling hitches which the Lagoon Crawler's powerful pump can help to avoid by
`keeping the sand in suspension, even in straight-sided manure tanks, he said.
`The unit's 6.7 litre, 275 HP, Cummins diesel engine drives the vehicle's wheels and
`its 10-inch, 10,000 gal. per minute pump while also propelling the vessel when it's
`afloat on foam filled flotation tanks.
`"It's a floating, amphibious, remote controlled agitation boat. It's a completely
`different product line and we had to learn a lot of things we didn't know from our
`experience making pumps and spreaders," he said.
`"It's almost like a business on its own . . . and they're selling like crazy," Nuhn
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