About us

Farmers, Engineers & Renewable Energy Installers

IEC will always go over and beyond to meet our customers expectations, We are farmers and engineers at heart, so tight stringent deadlines our turnkey packages demand, are normal practice and are achieved with dedication & long hours.
We have always installed the new technologies on our sites and ironed out any teething problems, so when we install the various technologies to our customers they know what they are buying actually works.

Our in-house philosophies are

‘We are the we can do company’

‘Do a proper job once not half a job twice’

1970

Harry Wilson Starts Contracting

In Lancashire with his first Fordson Dexta.

1970

1975

Precision forage harvesting starts

With 7 x Ford 5 & 7000s.

1975

1980

Investment in new machinery

6610 & 7610 Ford tractors, 4 x Hesston Self Propelled Forager Harvesters.

1980

1985

First Claas

First Claas Self Propelled Forage Harvester - Jaguar 690

1985

1987

First John Deere's

Moved from Ford onto John Deere 2850’s & 3350’s

1987

1990

Started nationwide machinery hire

17 Claas Jaguars, mixed fleet of John Deere & Ford tractors.

1990

1990

Started making and erecting steel buildings

1990

1995

Old Springs Farm acquired

770 acres in Market Drayton

1995

1995

Tyrley Farm acquired

285 acres

1995

1997

Haywood Farm acquired

370 acres

1997

1998

Started beef herd

100 sucklers and buying in stores to finish.

1998

2001

Land acquired in North Lincolnshire

600 acres. Blocked crop and run from Shropshire

2001

2002

Beef herd up to 1200

Fattening for Waitrose and ABP

2002

2003

Beef herd sold

2003

2003

Rented land with irrigation

500 acres

2003

2006

Harvesting Miscanthus

8000 acres nationwide

2006

2008

£2.5M Investment in Miscanthus rhizomes

Planted whole farm into Miscanthus

2008

2009

Bombshell dropped

The company who was contracted to buy all our miscanthus rhizomes went bust!!

2009

2009

International Energy Crops formed

Focused on planting high-yielding crops of Miscanthus.

2009

2010

Rhizome harvesters built

Rhizome processing line built. Four new bespoke Miscanthus planters built.

2010

2010

International Miscanthus

Precision planted Miscanthus in the UK, France, Italy, Poland and Romania.

2010

2012

Purchased Huntleys of Samlesbury

A retail outlet selling local produce (90 staff!)

2012

2013

Heat Solutions launched

Specialising in turnkey biomass heating installations

2013

2016

IEC Poultry launched

A modern, high biosecurity 250,000 bird broiler rearing unit in Shropshire.

2016

2018

IEC Heat Solutions diversifies

Into design and installation of multifunctional Ground Source Heat Pump systems.

2018

2019

IEC Beef launched

IEC decided to return a disused facility back to its original beef housing use; to rear Wagu and select breed beef for specialist beef purveyors.

2019

2022

Investment in Solar

Investment in solar to take advantage of advances in PV and battery technology to help reduce energy bills and energy costs.

2022

2023

IEC Energy launched

Devised to bring together the IEC Heat Solutions, Biomass and GSHP works with a new focus on Solar & Battery developments to suit the current climate.

2023

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