The Farmers Mart Oct-Nov 2018 - Issue 59 | Page 14

14 FARM NEWS OCT/NOV 2018 • farmers-mart.co.uk Barrier Celebrates 30-year partnership with Helaform® UK architectural hardware sup- plier, Barrier Components Ltd., is celebrating a successful 30 years of trading with their key supplier Hela- form® based in Helsinki, Finland. Barrier has been distributing a range of Helaform manufactured products to the UK market since 1988, a partnership that started just a year after Barrier was formed and only 5 years after Helaform started in 1983. The company manufactures quality tracks for sliding and folding door systems for both agricultural and industrial, and more latterly residential and commercial applications. “There are not many that can boast a 30-year supplier relation- ship.” Said Barrier’s Managing Director Graham Walker “It has the advantage that we know their prod- ucts very well and our technical sales team can specify them with both experience and confidence.” The Helaform series of products include sliding door solutions, with aluminium, galvanised steel or stainless-steel tracks, for a varying range of door weights. They start with wardrobe options for 30-45g door weights and extend right up to industrial and agricultural solu- tions for doors up to 2000kg with many options in between. www.barrier-components.co.uk Quality Helaform sliding door systems have been sold by Barrier Components since 1987. Ideal for industrial and agricultural sliding doors, their range of galvanized and stainless steel systems provide robust hanging system solutions for doors up to 2000kg in weight. Tel: [phone] [email protected] www.barrier-components.co.uk £3m support scheme launched to reduce air pollution from farming The Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) partnership has launched a new £3 million programme to reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture today (18 September 2018). FARMING is responsible for 88 percent of all UK emissions of ammonia gas which can travel long distances, be damaging to the environment, and combine with other pollutants to form particulates, which are harmful to human health. The partnership between Defra, the En- vironment Agency and Natural England will support farmers to act to reduce harmful ammonia emissions. The money will fund a team of specialists who will work with farmers and landown- ers to implement the measures to reduce their ammonia set out in the new Code of Good Agricultural Practice (COGAP) for Reducing Ammonia Emissions. The team will provide training events, tailored advice, individual farm visits and support with grant applications, all funded by the programme. Farming Minister George Eustice said: “There is growing evidence that ammo- nia emissions can have significant impacts to parts of our environment, so we want to help farmers play their part in reducing them.” ‘ farming is responsible for 88% of all UK emissions of ammonia gas ’ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ catchment-sensitive-farming-officer-contacts