Heron 3000 is the latest design in the long line of our Heron grain samplers. In terms of technology, it pertains to an entirely new generation, and though it has kept the elegant design of its predecessors, it offers a great amount of smart technological solutions and new electronic functions.

In the end, you get another revolutionary grain sampler which is both flexible and accurate, and also robust and fast.

- Anti-swing system for the probe spear

- Sampling by pure vacuum intake or core-sampling style intake

In a world-wide call for tenders by one of the biggest grain trading and processing company, TPLG have been the only people who could provide a gantry-type monorail travelling grain sampler. TPLG's PR 2006 was designed and built within little more than two months. Fully automatically controlled and fitted with a RF remote control box, PR 2006 takes samples along a container surface as long as 20 m; stores the sample in an intermediate storage vessel, and then travels back into its starting point, from where the sample is finally transferred to the laboratory.

Another feature of TPLG's design department is its capability to respond to particular customer requests and to adapt to the specific situations of the sites.

Wall-mounting brackets attached directly to a wall or steel structure can carry a HERON 3000 Standard or Gyroscopic model.

Tailor-made client specific installations can be designed upon request.

HERON 3000 ECO will interest every farmer or association wishing to carry out a quality control of the grain during the harvest, while the grain is being taken to the farm, before being transferred into storage bins or being shipped.

Its installation is extremely simple (less than 1 hour), its power supply will come from a standard 220 Volts mains socket. HERON 3000 ECO is available with or without a swivel drive. Just as the electric enclosure and the vacuum turbine, the sample receiver box, too, is directly attached to the sampler pillar.

Securing the quality control processes is probably the major challenge of the next few years. TPLG have already addressed this problem and have been working towards this goal for some time now in co-operation with other companies specialised in automatic grain sample analysis and processing.
Full integration of the process – from vehicle identification and weighing to automatic sampling as determined by the size of the vehicle, and automatic transfer to processing and analysing equipment (cleaning, moisture metering, NIR-analysis, packaging of the samples, etc.), recirculation of excess material to the vehicle, and computerised central management of all data – are already being used by certain TPLG clients.