Opico Ltd

The company is one of Britain's largest independent distributors of agricultural machinery with almost four decades of experience and knowledge of the trade. Their product range includes grain driers, grass harrows, seeders and cultivators, rotary cutters, post hole diggers and loaders.

Opico was originally founded in Essex in 1966 but moved to Spalding in 1971 and then to Bourne in 1983 and has since become one of the top five independently owned agricultural machinery distributors in the United Kingdom. They were originally based on a five-acre site in South Road with a 45,000 sq ft building complex but in 2007 the company sold the site to the Anglia Regional Co-operative Society to build a new supermarket and retail park and relocated to  new premises on the corner of Cherryholt Road and Roman Bank.

In 2001, the firm entered its 35th year of business and specialises in the distribution of agricultural and associated products for some 16 different manufacturers based in the United States, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Cyprus, Austria and Germany.

The company is always at the cutting edge of machinery for the farming world and has been responsible for introducing items as diverse as turbochargers to the U K market as well as portable batch grain dryers, the Opico grass harrow and seeder and vari-disc.

In 2007, the company sold its industrial site to the Anglia Regional Co-operative Society to build a new supermarket and retail park and relocated further down Cherryholt Road.

See also Co-operative Food

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