About us

The premises at Abbots Bromley were sold for residential development. The farm buildings activity was moved to the old British Rail goods warehouse at Trent Valley, Rugeley.

Development of the ARMix. The School of Chemical Engineering at Birmingham University approached ARM to help build a full scale unit capable of mixing cereal straw with animal slurry to produce compost, and commercially exploit the concept.  It soon became apparent that it was essential to achieve a thorough mix of the straw and slurry in order to get rapid and complete composting, leading to the development of the ARMix. A wide range of organic materials was successfully composted including vegetable waste, chicken feathers and horse muck.

ARM started manufacturing insulated panels by bonding rigid foam to cladding materials.

ARM develop the Leyland combined draw bar and hitch. From 1970, ARM supplied many thousands of hitches to British Leyland.

A range of conventional rectangular buildings were designed and developed by ARM. These included a farrowing house, a weaner house, a finishing house and a dry sow house.