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Transfeeder Inc. (Innovations) (company profile)
Transfeeder Inc.
The trouble with bales of hay is their bulk, a lot of useless air among all that valuable fiber. You can cube or pelletize the hay but you lose a lot of that fiber content in the process. With that in mind, Blair Wright and Kent Ward began research in 1985 to get the air out. They managed to reduce the original volume of bales to one-third. Since May, 1988, Wright's and Ward's Olds-based firm, Transfeeder Inc., has been exporting its compressed bale products to Korea, Japan and Taiwan for dairy cattle and horses.
"Freighting is so competitive," says Wright, vice-president of Transfeeder. …
