Moving Floor AB
Moving Floor is a patented technology to keep farm animals on rotating floors in order to clean efficiently, prevent diseases and in the end secure food safety. Moving Floor is the first product to automatically clean the area where the animals lay. Moving Floor is a concept of self-cleaning floors for dairy and pig and the very latest in animal husbandry that significantly improve profitability and animal health. We have long known that hygiene is important to stay healthy for us humans. Now we turn our attention to the animals. Moving Floor revolutionizes the industry by cleaning countless times per day, thereby preventing significant bacterial growth. Bacteria and bacterial growth is impossible for the eye to catch. Herein lies the advantage of Moving Floor. Our goal is to reduce the use of antibiotics for animals. By proving a clean environment for the animals they stay healthy and grow faster.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Livestock
- Market Focus:
- Internationally (various countries)
- Year Founded:
- 2001
- Employees:
- 1-10
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
The Moving Floor Story
Moving Floor is a family owned company based on the Swedish island of Gotland. Read below to learn about the inspiration and development of the Moving Floor Concept, as well as our future aspirations.
The Inventor
Tommy Lindvall has devoted the past 20 years to the development of self-cleaning floors and associated equipment. The challenge started already in 1995 with developing self cleaning floors for pigs. Can you believe how difficult it is to find a material for a conveyor that the pigs do not eat?
I have been a farmer for forty years. The need of an increased animal hygiene, and to do this mechanically, is so obvious to me
Inspiration from the Nature
A TV show on National Geographic’s became the starting point for the development of self-cleaning floors. The reporter explained that the gnues on the savannah move over vast areas. They rarely get sick even though thousands of animals live in the same herd. Graze, fertilize, move on. Graze, fertilize, move on. Tommy realized what today’s livestock buildings lacked – motion! Can not animals move from their dung floor must move the animals.
Moving Floor Time Line
- 1995 – Starting point of the development of self cleaning floors for pigs
- 1997 – First patent approved
- 2002 – Successful results of trials on Moving Floor for pigs, however the pigs eat the conveyors
- 2003 – Starting point for Moving Floor for calves
- 2004 – Installation of calf floor at the Swedish university of Agriculture in Uppsala, Sweden
- 2006 – The Moving Floor technique approved by Swedish Board of Agriculture
- 2008 – Moving Floor exhibits at EuroTier, Hannover for the first time
- 2010 – Investor Region Invest joins the company
- 2012 – Development of a complete Moving Floor Concept for Dairy starts
- 2015 – first installation in China
- 2017 – first installation in Canada
- 2018 – first installation in Russia
- 2018/2019 – launching of Moving Floor for pigs
A Restructure of Animal Husbandry
To secure future food demands the world’s livestock needs to increase in numbers but at the same time reducing their environmental impact. Perhaps the most important issue is to reduce antibiotic use in animal breeding. Moving Floor is an important component that contributes with
- Less use of antibiotics
- 95% lowered ammonia emission
- Increased profitability for farmer
Moving Floor is part of a structural change and will contribute to a positive development of the sector. Moving Floor is the last important keystone for the modern barn.