Mission Statement:

Applying half a century’s experience in the design of equipment and systems to address the agricultural and environmental challenges of today’s changing world - to process our food resources more efficiently and to make better, safer use of our waste materials.

Alvan Blanch is a British manufacturing and project engineering company with a global outlook, specializing in the design, production and supply of quality machines and integrated systems for the primary and secondary processing of agricultural produce and waste materials.

We are proud of the reputation we have gained over more than 50 years for the quality of our innovative and reliable products and for the personal service that we give to all of our customers.

An exceptionally wide product range encompasses some stages of mechanical processing for most of the world’s crops, varying in scale from individual machines to large-scale industrial projects.

Outsourcing of parts and production is restricted to suppliers from around the world that have been specially selected for their specialization is certain fields of engineering and proven ability to work to our rigorous quality standards. This strategy of global collaborations with other manufacturers ensures that the company's products remain highly cost effective.

It is a central part of the Alvan Blanch ethos that the first and most important step to gaining a satisfied client is making sure that we know and understand exactly what he needs for his business.

For this reason we make sure that all of our sales staff have a great deal of experience – each with their own area of specialization – so that when you talk with Alvan Blanch, it will be with someone who really understands your industry.

We are proud to have so many long serving members of staff, while recent recruitment has further enhanced the strength in depth of our technical team, creating an ideal balance between continuity and new ideas.

Like every successful company, Alvan Blanch, has seized the new challenges that have been introduced by these developments. Through an expanded Research & Development budget and increased departmental strength, we seek to continue the improvement of existing products, speed up our existing development plans and also break into new sectors, particularly in relation to waste processing and biofuel production.

Parts are efficiently dispatched worldwide - what’s more our experienced and helpful team try their best to find a solution to every query – even outside of office hours during the harvest season.

We have a policy to maintain spares availability wherever possible – we are still supplying parts to machines made over 40 years ago!

Our service department of five engineers, working from three locations across the country, look after our thousands of UK customers.

They are also on-call for the commissioning of our larger overseas projects and to give support to our dealers in overseas markets.

Alvan Blanch have long recognised the importance of effective training to the success of any new venture.

So we offer new clients product and process training on site and in the UK.

Training courses are also run for our dealers.

Like many progressive companies, Alvan Blanch have proven the value of commercial partnerships to meet specific business opportunities in today’s fast moving world. Here is a very successful example:

A partnership with Crowley Engineering, our long time exclusive dealers in Ireland, in which the technical and commercial resources of both companies are pooled on large-scale process plant projects.

The partnership successfully completed a $10 million project with Kenana Sugar Co. Sudan to process cane waste (bagasse & molasses) into Pelleted Animal Feed.

The company's founder, the late, Alvan B. Blanch OBE, 1916-1991, started his working life as a farmer and agricultural contractor.  Through his prowess at sheep shearing he became head demonstrator R.A. Lister Co. (famous for diesel engines), which even involved him in a televised display of sheep shearing for a very early BBC farming programme in 1938.

Alvan’s inventive talents clearly needed a more challenging outlet and so it was that in 1946 he started his first business -A.B. Blanch Ltd. to design and manufacture new farm machinery.

The design ethos was definitive:  machines should be no more complicated than functionally necessary, while being easy to repair and built to last for a generation.
Sales took off rapidly and those early design concepts for grain driers and feed mixers have evolved into the equivalent machines of today. 

The opportunity to assist in the mechanization of agriculture elsewhere in the world was grasped with enthusiasm and an export team was established, with Alvan Blanch himself travelling worldwide. He quickly recognised that agricultural traditions, dictated by culture, climate and economic factors varied enormously.  Machinery should be just as varied – to meet the actual requirements in a country or region.  He set his design team some very diverse challenges, leading to the creation of a range of products of extraordinary strength in depth.

This was the foundation to the company’s success in international trade that was given official recognition in 1969 when Alvan Blanch was honoured with the award of the OBE by H M the Queen.