Team members from Cawood’s Environment and Field Services divisions exhibited at Contaminated & Geotech Expo this year. The teams from Marchwood, Elab, Chemtech, and Enitial met customers old and new across the two day event at the NEC, discussing the current hot topics in environmental testing and showcasing the businesses as industry leaders.
‘Exhibiting at Contaminated & Geotech Expo is always a fantastic opportunity to speak to customers, discuss current trends in the contaminated land and waste management industries, and demonstrate our expertise,’ said Ben Rowe, Business Development Manager at Marchwood. ‘In particular, discussions centred around the challenges faced by environmental testing labs and our customers. For example, there was a lot of questions around the very recent withdrawal of RPS 250 and what it means for the waste wood industry. With all demolition waste wood now classified as hazardous unless analysed to prove otherwise, there’s a lot more testing required for this sector to comply. We also discussed the emerging challenges around PFAS and how we have recently added a PFAS analytical service for environmental samples to help customers meet upcoming legislation. As UK leaders in waste management analysis, we are glad to use opportunities like Contaminated & Geotech Expo to share our expertise and advise the industries that we service.’
Contaminated & Geotech Expo is the UK’s largest event for contaminated land, air, and water. It aims to accelerate the transition to a more environmentally friendly planet through air quality testing, waste and contaminated water treatment, brownfield regeneration, and more. This year, the Expo was held at the NEC in Birmingham 13th-14th September 2023.
‘Our decades of experience in and excellent reputation for environmental laboratory testing and field monitoring and sampling services makes us experts in these industries,’ said Declan Burns, Managing Director of Cawood Environment. ‘Exhibiting at events like these helps cement Cawood’s position as the UK’s leading scientific group for the land-based industries. We are committed to helping our customers meet their goals and maintain compliance whilst supporting a safer, healthier planet, and increasing customer awareness of our specialist environmental services help us do just that.’
Cawood Environment and Field Services provide a range of services to help customers achieve planning consent, remain compliant, and safeguard the environment. These include:
- Air quality monitoring and analysis
- Emissions testing
- Water and sewage monitoring and analysis
- Contaminated land and groundwater analysis
- Occupational hygiene services including dust and biological monitoring and analysis
- Stack residues and emissions analysis including brominated dioxins
- Industrial and environmental field monitoring and sampling services for contaminated land, ecology, water and utilities, engineering and infrastructure, and more
- Managing waste for energy, including waste derived fuel analysis and hazardous waste characterisation and classification.
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Sciantec has launched a new grass silage analytical service exclusively for livestock farmers in Northern Ireland. This service presents grass silage results and interpretation based on the AFBI advisory system, giving farmers the necessary insight to adjust livestock nutrition effectively for optimal productivity.
‘By providing customer-specific interpretation based on AFBI’s advisory system, we are helping farmers in Northern Ireland make more informed decisions around livestock nutrition,’ says Mike Whitfield, Business Development Manager at Sciantec. ‘For example, if you’re a dairy farmer, your results are used to calculate the silage and feed required for optimal production—in this case, milk yield. Not only will this help these farmers ensure peak animal productivity, but the knowledge will also save them money and reduce the incidences of nutrition-related diseases.’
Sciantec has recently invested in new NIR instrumentation for quality forage and silage analysis. This state-of-the-art equipment has an updated configured sample interface and a wider wavelength range, enabling scanning of a greater area and better reproducibility over non-homogenous samples such as silage.
‘Our nutritional results are available within 24 hours, with individual result reports for each sample,’ continued Mike. ‘This fast turnaround enables our customers to utilise results as soon as possible to help adjust rations and take variability of nutritional quality within a clamp into account. We also provide our silage analysis kit free of charge as part of our package. This fast and easy service is very important for our customers, who often require rapid turnaround of results to help them diagnose problems on-farm, such as a reduction in milk output, so they can adjust rations accordingly.’
This new service with additional interpretation is suitable exclusively for grass silage. Sciantec also offers a variety of other forage and silage testing services, including fresh grass, maize silage, whole crop, alkalage, lucerne silage, hay, haylage, and crimped cereals. These analytical packages help customers determine the nutritional quality of forage and silage to allow herd nutrition, crop nutrition, and fertiliser programmes to be tailored for improved animal welfare, productivity, and profitability.
‘This investment in new analyses and state-of-the-art instrumentation is part of our commitment at Cawood Agriculture to continuously improve our services for our customers,’ said Sean Stevenson, Commercial Director of Cawood Agriculture. ‘The team has worked very hard to develop these improvements, continuing to cement Sciantec as one of the UK’s largest providers of specialist forage and animal feed analysis.’
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