Products

The beekeeping equipment we manufacture and supply include: -

• Langstroth beehives
• Brood box
• Super box
• Queen extruder
• Clearer board
• Jumbo Smoker
• Bee brush
• Catcher box
• Hive stand
• Bee suit
• Solar Wax melter
• Frame Centrifuge machine
• 3Frame Centrifuge machine
• Decaping tray
• Decaping folk
• Honey sieve
• Honey bucket drip holder

ABL has made several modifications to the Langstroth bee hive to suit local conditions:

• Reduced the frame space in the brood box by increasing an extra frame to 11                         instead of standard 10, so as to prevent burr combs.
• Permanently fixing the floor to the brood box so as  to make handling easer especially When moving and transporting  from trapping sites to stands.
• Reduced the length of the landing board  to prevent bee eating birds from perching on landing board.

Increased the space between the super frames by fitting 9 frames opposed to the standard  10 frame , so as to create and air flow reducing the heat in the bee hive and to get a thicker comb for more efficient Decaping.

The queen excluder is made from galvanized wire mesh with a timber boarder. The wire mesh has very little restriction for bees moving in and out of the super/supers. 

ABL developed the clearer board which works very efficiently clearing bees from the supers in 24 hours.

ABL has developed a jumbo smoker to be able to handle the African bees that requires good amount of smoke; the bellow is fitted with a return spring for efficient airflow.

ABL manufactures and supplies efficient bee brushes with bristles that are bee friendly.

The 3-catcher box is made to hold 5 Langstroth brood frames; the box is made with precision making it very versatile and efficient for relocating when colonized. 

ABL has designed a beehive stand that accommodates two Langstroth beehives.

The stand is made out of treated timber planks, which are screwed together making the unit strong and rugged.

The frame is mounted on UV treated recycled plastic legs making the stand light, long lasting and completely termite proof.

ABL develops bee suits by carefully selecting the right material, and fitted with bee proof zips and Velcros to prevent stings from bees. The Vail is also made from a robust netting material that does not collapse thus providing good face protection, visibility and durability from rugged use.

Our bee keeping kit consists of all the necessary equipment to handle bees in the field. The items fit into a compact knapsack bag, which accommodates all the items.

ABL has designed a solar wax melter which will melt honey combs harvested from top bar, traditional hives and capping from Langstroth bee hives giving a very high quality product under normal sunny conditions.

The wax melting unit is mounted on four UV treated recycled plastic legs.

The legs are detachable making the unit easy to transport.

ABL has developed two sizes of honey extractors; a 9 and a 3 frame.

The extractors are made up of 50% local contents and 50% imported components from one of the largest bee keeping equipment manufacturers in Europe.

The tanks are made from food grade plastic supported by a metal frame with three legs making the machine Versatile and robust.

ABL has designed the three frame machine to suit the small scale bee keepers operating in rural areas since it can be used as a mobile unit due to its versatility. 

ABL has designed a versatile decapping tray that also serves as drip tray were decapped frames can be placed waiting to be extracted holding any drippings from the frames as well as the cappings.

ABL supplies an efficient decapping folk that can be used to decap combs in any rural processing unit.

ABL supplies a plastic which fits on any standard packet.

Holding a bucket of thick honey to pour can be quite tiring. The bucket holder can do the job with ease.