MagrowTec - Revolutionizing Crop Protection Systems to Drive High Coverage with Zero Chemical Waste

MagrowTec stands out as an innovative Irish agricultural technology pioneer dedicated to drastically cutting chemical waste and conserving critical resources. MagrowTec is headquartered in Dublin and produces the innovative, patented magnetic assist technology specially designed to improve the efficiency of spray performance in agriculture. By concentrating on the optimization of liquid dynamics, MagrowTec helps producers provide more food worldwide while protecting the planet.

The journey of MagrowTec originated from a critical realization regarding the massive inefficiencies inherent in traditional crop spraying practices. Conventional spraying methods frequently suffer from immense chemical drift and runoff, causing upwards of seventy percent of expensive protective fluids to miss their target crops, bounce off leaves, or pollute surrounding soil systems. Driven by a mission to eliminate this wasteful compromise between drift reduction and canopy coverage, the founding team invested heavily in rigorous scientific research and fluid mechanics. Originally founded as MagGrow, the enterprise evolved into MagrowTec to reflect its identity as a science-backed, data-driven technology brand capable of transforming agricultural machinery through physics-based fluid conditioning.

The revolutionary industry impact of MagrowTec is brought about through the establishment of global multi-channel distribution networks that help to integrate fluid science technology with everyday farm activities. Through the creation of strategic partnerships with OEMs and agronomy experts, MagrowTec is able to make sure that its technologies are accessed by farmers across more than seventy countries around the globe. The global multi-channel network uses digital platforms, technical support staff, and on-the-field specialists to offer education, installations, and operational optimization. These networks help MagrowTec to overcome the challenge of connecting complicated fluid science laboratory physics with field application in order to make sustainable farming practices commercially and practically available to agricultural businesses of all sizes.

Magnetic-Assist Fluid Conditioning Solutions

At the heart of the company's product portfolio is its patented magnetic-assist spray system, designed to transform how liquid protection products interact with plant surfaces. By passing spray fluid through strategically placed manifolds featuring powerful permanent rare-earth magnets, the system realigns droplet formation to achieve an optimal size profile. This physical conditioning creates right-sized droplets that maintain sufficient mass to resist wind drift while gaining enhanced surface adhesion properties. The resulting technology enables growers to achieve up to seventy percent less spray drift alongside twenty to forty percent higher target coverage, ensuring chemical inputs stick directly to weed targets, crop canopies, stalks, and leaves.

Retrofit Machinery Integration Services

Recognizing that farmers require adaptable tools rather than expensive machinery overhauls, MagrowTec delivers comprehensive retrofit integration services compatible with virtually any boom sprayer length. The company provides total kit assembly with a magnetic manifold, flow distributor, special boom-mounted rods, spacers, and universal mounting hardware. The fluid conditioner technology is unique since it does not require any moving parts and is not dependent on complicated electrical systems. Therefore, it has a few requirements for maintenance throughout the period of its use. The service professionals and dealers help farmers to install, calibrate the fluid lines, and switch the equipment from one spraying unit to another.

Agronomic Field Testing and Analytical Validation

MagrowTec provides full-scale testing, ROI calculations, and agronomic evaluations. In its collaboration with relevant independent agricultural research organizations, university faculties, and local agronomists, MagrowTec is able to test its performance indicators in various crops, including cereals, cotton, legumes, fruit, and vegetable varieties. These analytical services provide farm managers with actionable data to safely reduce water volumes and chemical dosages while preserving or enhancing overall crop health and harvest yield.

Applied Nanobubble and Advanced Research Initiatives

MagrowTec has an innovative industrial research arm that works on cutting-edge research in the field of fluid technology of the future. In collaboration with prestigious universities such as Trinity College Dublin and Wageningen University, the company is carrying out cutting-edge research in the area of ultra-fine nanobubbles. These nanobubbles, which are similar in size to viruses, have interesting properties with enormous agricultural applications. Through its specialized research services, MagrowTec is investigating how nanobubble dynamics can improve seed germination speeds, enhance root-level nutrient uptake, optimize oxygenation in irrigation systems, and deliver targeted foliar pathogen management without excessive chemical reliance.

Digital Sprayer Optimization and Training Services

Understanding that hardware performance is maximized through informed operational practices, MagrowTec provides comprehensive digital diagnostic and training resources for its dealer and customer network. With an exclusive digital portal, the company provides diagnostic utilities, manuals for installation, and flow rate calculators to equipment managers, technicians, and operators. Field personnel provide training courses that instruct operators about nozzle choice, boom height, and optimal flow rates while using magnetic assist equipment. The complete service environment ensures that agricultural operations derive the most from each and every spraying pass.

AI-Driven Precision Fluid Engineering and Sustainable Farming

With respect to achieving global food security in the future, MagrowTec is geared towards revolutionizing the manner in which people nurture crops and sustain the environment in an unprecedented way. The company seeks to create fully automated spraying systems that will integrate artificial intelligence, data intelligence, and physics-based fluid mechanics to dynamically tune the physical properties of the fluids in relation to the existing microclimates, soil types, and health indicators of the crops. Given the mounting regulatory pressure against chemical runoff and water scarcity in agricultural fields, the developments at MagrowTec in magnetic assist technology and nanobubbles will be crucial. The company envisions a future where precision fluid dynamics allows global agriculture to feed a rapidly expanding world population using a fraction of historical input costs, proving that sustainable, science-led farming is the ultimate engine of planetary abundance.

Garry Wickham | Founder & CEO

Gary Wickham is the Founder & CEO of MagrowTec. He is an accomplished and highly experienced entrepreneur & businessman. Gary began his career at Henkel Loctite Ireland, where he held several senior management positions, which included building Loctite’s first-ever cleanroom facility for the Biomedical and Microelectronic product ranges. Gary was also a key member of the M&A Team. In 2013, Gary founded MagrowTec in Nova UCD, a deep-tech revolutionary technology based on magnetic assist, now also an emerging nanotechnology. 

“MagrowTec supports the sustainable intensification of global food production by using innovative science and technology to use fewer scarce resources (land, labour, water) and inputs to do more.”