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Hereward Works, Station Road, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4BP England
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Standen Engineering Limited
Hereward Works
Station Road
Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4BP
England

MANUFACTURING FINE MACHINERY IN THE FENS SINCE 1846

STANDEN ENGINEERING LTD

Company Profile

STANDEN ENGINEERING LTD is an independent privately owned company, manufacturers of STANDEN-PEARSON Potato Systems products and STANDEN-PEARSON POWAVATOR rotary tillers.

The STANDEN-PEARSON products include bed formers, rotary tillers, soil separators, potato planters, toppers, potato harvesters, as well as fluted roller, roller table and star separation units for harvester or grading line applications. We offer machines for onion, carrot, red beet, swede, parsnip and turnip topping and harvesting. Many STANDEN-PEARSON innovations are protected by worldwide patents.

STANDEN-PEARSON Potato Systems also include products imported from the Netherlands; BASELIER hook-tine cultivators, and BASELIER potato toppers. PLOEGER self-propelled potato harvesters, KEULMAC onion toppers, onion windrowers, and MACLOUIS onion toppers complete the range.

STANDEN-PEARSON Potato Systems are marketed through a worldwide dealer network.

STANDEN REFLEX is our specialist subsidiary; importers of HOLMER sugar beet harvesters, sugar beet cleaner-loaders and Systems Tractors. SIMON bed making cultivators,SIMON harvesters for root vegetables, leeks, and salads. HERRIAU precision drills for vining peas, sugar beet etc. ARC tying machines, REGERO trans-planters, FEDELE trans-planters, CM plastic laying/retrieving machines and BRIAND washing/grading equipment completes a range of machines marketed directly to grower and contractor customers.

STANDEN also offers sub-contract engineering services to many different industries.

STANDEN employs around 80 people and is managed by a board of six directors; Owen Blake (Managing + Finance), Doug Carter (Production), Richard Holmes (Design + Development), Alex Mathias (Marketing), David Wilson (Sales), Alan Winter (Service). Andy Bone (Chairman/Director) continues to make a valuable contribution. The company is privately owned by its shareholders, most of whom hold key positions within STANDEN

ACQUISITION TIMELINE

1993 - STANDEN purchased the potato machinery business of Key Agricultural Ltd. Products included the Keyag Clodmaster soil separator

1994 - The imported agricultural machinery business and premises of Reflex Engineering Ltd was purchased by STANDEN. A new imported specialist machinery division was created under the STANDEN-REFLEX name. Juko, Herriau, Baselier and other manufacturer’s products were then imported to the UK by the company.

2001 - STANDEN purchased the IPR, manufacturing rights, engineering machinery and more for the Dowdeswell range of powered soil cultivation machinery and bed formers. These include the POWAVATOR rotary tiller, and BEDFORMER ranges, all of which are now manufactured in Ely.

2003 - STANDEN ENGINEERING LTD acquired the potato machinery business of Richard Pearson Ltd, along with their patents and intellectual property rights. Manufacture of MEGASTAR, MAXISTAR, QM, ENTERPRISE and GALAXY machines was transferred to STANDEN at Ely.

That lead to the creation of the STANDEN-PEARSON Potato Systems line of machinery and the change of colour to STANDEN blue for all our manufactured machines.

Potato growers all over the world benefit from the unique technology advantages and outstanding performance offered by STANDEN-PEARSON products.

2010 - STANDEN ENGINEERING LTD purchased the assets of Deptford Marketing Ltd and added their imported salad and vegetable machinery to the STANDEN-REFLEX range.

STANDEN ENGINEERING Ely administration and production centre; about 3.5 acres (1.40 hectares)

How to find us

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Here in ENGLAND, our home is in Ely, Cambridgeshire. A small attractive city on the banks of the River Ouse.

We are 2 minutes walk from the National Rail Network ELY railway station, 60 miles north of London.

Come and view our machines! We are just 1 hours drive from London-Stansted airport. Economical flights are available with easyJet, Ryan Air, Air Berlin etc.

Call us and we can arrange to collect you from London-Stansted airport.

Company History

Sugar Beet Machinery - Success Breeds Success

Early Days of Sugar Beet Harvesting

Single-row Sugar Beet Harvester Development

Rapide Tanker
Solobeet and Cyclone

Multi-row Sugar Beet Harvester Development

2-Row Harvesters; Talisman, Tornado and Thyregod
3-Row Harvesters; Multibeet, Turbobeet, Sceptre, Stalwart
4-Row Harvesters; Four Row and Turbo-Four
6-Row Harvesters; Super-Six, Challenger, Holmer

Potato Machinery - The Start of a Tradition

Early Days - Potato Machinery
Sterling Self-Propelled Potato Harvester Project