24 www.pigchamp.com Spring 2025 Agri Incineration Systems Ltd.’s senior personnel come with over 40 years of experience in animal waste incinerator design, manufacturing, engineering, sales, and customer support. This experience has enabled the company to develop 23 different systems for specific customer needs. Benchmark Magazine had the opportunity to speak with Graham Crown, the Business Development Director of Agri Incineration Systems, a company headquartered in Worcestershire, UK, but with a global network of distributors and customers. While he acknowledged that many swine businesses already have incinerators, use a third-party disposal service, or even choose to rely on so-called greener options, Crown stated that his company’s concrete, monolithic casting system—one piece of concrete— ensures maximum strength, reliability, and a longer machine life. Oh, and it’s better for the environment and provides the farm business with biosecurity. “Although we offer 23 individual incinerator types,” Crown said, “many have been designed to dispose of specific animal species to ensure maximum throughput with minimum fuel usage.” A Model For Your Needs The models Cyclone 033, Cyclone 055, Cyclone 064, and Cyclone 132 are the smallest incinerators for swine made by the company, capable of incinerating one or two pigs at a time. For larger volume sites and/or emergency disease outbreaks such as H1N1, Crown stated that the Cyclone 1250, Cyclone 1870, Cyclone 2650, and Cyclone 3860 are ideal. “The largest machine, the 3860, is capable of handling seven or eight sows at a time." Crown pointed out that although the machines noted above have been designed for pig operators such as growers, finishers, and sows with a front-access loading chamber that allows for machine loading via skid loaders and tractor buckets, a machine like the Cyclone 055 can also handle other animal by-products, such as poultry, ewes, and lambs, and can be used by game farms, estates, butchers, and farm shops. As Crown said, “The Cyclone 055 is ideal for those looking for a quick, effective, and biosecure animal-by-product incineration solution.” We’re sure that everyone reading these words is aware that managing swine waste is a crucial aspect of this industry. Swine waste consists of waste by-products as well as swine carcasses. Improper disposal can lead to environmental contamination, odor issues, and the spread of diseases. “Third-party companies charged with picking up animal carcasses have to travel from farm to farm on a single-day run,” pointed out Crown. “That truck is carrying dead, possibly diseased animals from one farm to another as it does its pickups. How is that for biosecurity?” Although Crown acknowledged that there are many different methods used by pig farms to manage and divest animal waste effectively—composting, anaerobic digestion, lagoons, fertilizer application, and solid waste recycling—there can be issues with rodents getting hold of the waste, themselves being eaten by birds or other animals up the food chain, and then possible diseases spreading. He also noted that many farms say they have an incinerator, but it’s often nothing more than an enclosed barrel with a chimney, or it’s one made of brick and mortar. “Brick and mortar materials exFOR BIOSECURITY Incineration Agri Incineration Systems has an animal waste management solution that fits your specific needs. Andrew Joseph, Editor The Cyclone 055 is one of the company’s smaller incinerators, best for disposing of up to two pigs in one cycle. Photo by Agri Incineration Systems Ltd.
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