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Clonmel Covers is one of the agricultural finalists at this year’s National Enterprise Awards.
The company initially focused on transport lorry covers, but has since diversified into manufacturing a large range of products with many focused on solutions for agriculture.
The company sells its products throughout Ireland and recently began exporting to the UK.
Clonmel Covers agricultural products:
Farm windbreakers
All our windbreakers are made to measure pic.twitter.com/jdbrGSq8it
— Clonmel Covers (@ClonmelCovers) October 12, 2017
Fertiliser spreader covers
Mower covers
General manager Eugene Phelan told the Irish Farmers Journal: “We are a family-orientated business, working alongside my father who is the founder and owner of the company. We have 12 staff and, fortunately, our business has doubled in size over the past five years."
The company makes covers for many sectors, but Eugene said: “Over 50% of our business is in making agricultural products. We were inundated with work during the winter months making windbreakers for farm buildings.”
On reaching the National Enterprise Awards final, Eugene said: “This is a major achievement for our business and we are very grateful to have gotten this far in the competition.
"We were delighted to have been chosen as the Tipperary enterprise of the year back in March and we are familiar with the national finals, as we reached this stage a previous year.”
The National Enterprise Awards celebrate small businesses from across the country, focusing on start-ups, innovation and exports, with the finals taking place on 29 May at the Mansion House, Dublin.
There is over €40,000 in prizes to be won, with the overall winner taking home €10,000.
Terra NutriTech was last year’s winners, an ag-tech company that specialises in precision liquid supplementation for livestock.
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