Slatted Floors
LW Plastic Slat
LW-series PP slat floor with wide drainage gaps and a saw-tooth anti-slip face, made in spans from 200 to 600 mm.
PP / HDPE600×400 / 600×500 / 600×600 mm
By animal stage
Grow-Finish Houses
Where the weight is. Flooring, penning and feeders specified for animals that push, and for the feed conversion the house is judged on.
Pain points
What Goes Wrong In This Room
Feed lost between the line and the pan
Every kilo on the slat is the most expensive thing in the building.
Pen fronts pushed over at feeding time
Panels specified for weaners do not hold a finishing group.
Floors that stop draining under heavy manure
A gap sized for piglets clogs when the animals are 100 kg.
Supports that fail before the building does
Steel and concrete both have a service life in a slurry pit; FRP does not.
How JGM Equips It
Finishing rooms are a load problem. The LW slat pattern moves heavier manure; FRP T and I beams carry the floor across the pit with no corrosion; 1200 mm PP panels in reinforced grade hold the pen front through the feeding rush, in carbon black where the house is curtain-sided.
Feeding is where the money is: a maxi pan feeder with a stainless adjustment that holds its setting, fed through an anti-bridge hopper and a trumpet drop pipe so feed lands spread across the pan rather than heaped on one side of it.
Specification Checklist
- LW slats at the span the beam grid was built for
- FRP T or I beams sized to the clear span and floor weight
- 1200 mm reinforced PP pen fronts, black where daylight reaches
- Maxi pan feeders with the flow set and checked weekly
- Anti-bridge hopper and trumpet drop pipe on every drop
- Float bowls on a regulated line
Send us three numbers
Room dimensions, animal stage and target capacity are enough for our engineers to return a layout and an equipment list.
Start a specificationRecommended equipment
Products For This Stage
Slatted Floors
FRP Beams
FRP I-Beam Support
Fibreglass I-profile support for the wide slat spans used in grow-finish and gestation rooms.
FRP compositeI-profile
FRP Beams
FRP T-Beam Support
Pultruded fibreglass T-beam that carries plastic and cast-iron slats across the manure pit and does not corrode doing it.
FRP compositeT-profile
PP Panel
Pig PP Panel — Black
Black PP pen panel in the tall 1200 × 1000 × 50 mm size, for the positions that take the most light and the most wear.
Polypropylene (PP)1200×1000×50 mm
Feeding
Maxi Pan Feeder
Large-capacity pan feeder with a stainless adjustment for grow-finish pigs, set to deliver feed without spilling it.
PP + stainlessAdjustable flow
Feeding
Feed Drop Hopper
Drop hopper that channels feed cleanly from the line into the pan or trough below.
PPAnti-bridge
Feeding
Trumpet Feed Drop Pipe
Trumpet-mouth drop pipe in Ø60 and Ø75 mm that spreads feed evenly across the pan instead of dropping it in one place.
PPØ60 / Ø75
Drinking
Drinking Bowl
Robust drinker bowl with a float valve, so water is there when the animal wants it and nowhere else.
Cast + stainlessFloat valve
Supply options
Buy It As A Package
Turnkey Pig House Equipment
Give us the building and the herd flow. We engineer the equipment package and supply it as one accountable project.
Flooring and Support Package
The floor and everything that carries it, specified as one system: slat pattern, span, beam section, feet and edge details.
Penning and Panel Package
Your pen layout returned as a counted schedule: panels, posts, brackets, connectors, channel and gates, crated by room.
Feed and Water Package
Feeding and drinking specified together, from the regulator at the room entry to the pan at the pen front.
Related reading
Guides For This Stage
Design GuideHow to Choose Slat Gap Width for Each Pig Stage
The gap in a slatted floor is a compromise between drainage and foot support. This is how to decide which way to lean in each room.
Installation GuideInstalling a Plastic Slat Floor Over a Manure Pit
A slat floor that is set out correctly takes a day. One that is not takes a week and never quite sits flat. Here is the order of work.
Comparison ArticleFRP Beams Compared With Concrete and Steel Slat Supports
Whatever carries the slat floor spends its life in the worst atmosphere in the building. Three materials are used for the job, and only one of them is indifferent to it.
Answers
Grow-Finish Houses FAQs
Which slat pattern for a finishing room?
The LW slot pattern. Its wider gap moves the heavier manure a finishing pig produces.
How do I reduce feed waste?
Control the last half metre: an anti-bridge hopper, a trumpet drop pipe that spreads feed across the pan, and a pan adjustment that holds its setting.
What panel height for finishing pens?
1200 mm in reinforced grade, in carbon black where the panel sees daylight through a curtain or open end.
How long do FRP beams last in a pit?
There is no metal in the laminate to corrode and no coating to fail, which is why they are specified to outlast the floor above them.
Talk to an engineer
Equip your grow-finish rooms from one factory
Slats, beams, penning, feeders, drinkers and fans are made on the same site and crated by room, so the build order is the unload order.