Early Decision

Originally we had looked at the Mini Mill system back in 2004 but had been put off by the cost at that point. In addition with only arround 5000 alpacas in New Zealand at that time we were not overly confident that the alpaca population would support the mill. Now we have some 15,000 alpacas in New Zealand (2008 numbers) and the National Herd is growing, we still felt confident that our original thought to offer a serivce where smaller breeders could process their fleece without having to combine it into a larger run would be viable. As well as the price considerations we felt that the mini mill system would be limited in its capacity and we spent the next few years searching the internet for manufactures of small mill equipment. Being from Yorkshire stock in the UK I felt there must be some machines around still from the haydays of the milling industry in Saltaire and Hailfax where I grew up. I am not sure that we found those machines but we did find Carolina Speciality and Marcel Deshaies and began the long email discussions and the path we are now walking along