About Us

Founded on research and development

CompostManager was created by a team which was headed up by eminent soil scientist George Longmoir and analytical chemist Dr. Eric Crouch. After 7 years of hard work, research and data analysis, CompostManager was created.

CompostManager is produced by Freeland Scientific. Freeland Scientific is a company based in the UK that produces monitoring equipment for the compost industry. Our technology is now used across the world and can be customised to meet each country’s legislative monitoring requirements. We are proud to say that our equipment is produced to the highest technical standards and quality.

CompostManager is the affordable monitor solution for your life. Our development team are constantly looking into ways of producing equipment, helping producers comply with legislation changes and ensure that we help monitoring and decision makings as easy as possible. 

Our Values

At CompostManager, everything we do is based around four key values. Making us a company that always put our customers first, from the initial contact all the way through to our aftercare service. Whether you are just making an enquiry or a long standing customer, we will treat everyone the same. We pride ourselves on excellent and friendly customer service. Everything we do is for our customers, from upgrading existing technology to evolving our system and researching into new innovations. We always have our customers in mind. 

Pride

Care

Vision

Integrity

George Longmuir

George Longmuir, founder and creator of CompostManager and director of Freeland Horticulture. 


George’s early career started working with ICI in the fertiliser division, where he gained a wealth of experience for the science of soils in a commercial environment. In the early 90s, George was involved in green waste composting in USA and established Freeland. George was the first to mass-market compost derived from composted green waste in the 1990s to customers including B&Q, Homebase and Wyevale Garden Centres. 

George created the APEX collaboration which brought SITA, Veolia and Cleanaway waste companies together, to produce quality green compost to the same standard. In 2003 and 2004, APEX won four key environmental awards for its achievements. 

DR.ERIC CROUCH

Dr Eric Crouch is a development scientist at CompostManager since May 2007. 

Responsible for the design, prototyping, manufacturing and servicing of the Compost Manager analyser. With a PHD in analytical chemistry and biosensor development, his knowledge helps CompostManager development and expand with the ever growing research conducted.  


With a number of specialities including data handling and analysis, analytical chemistry, sensor science, Windows programming and compost science, his skills help CompostManager continue to move forward and develop. 

Find out more about CompostManager and speak to a member of our team today to enquire.