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A smooth wall silo has a sanitary design and it got its strength from inside reinforcements, creating a hollow wall space. Especially with small bins for e.g. minerals or micro components, the hollow wall space absorbs storage volume.

Dimensioning of a silo often starts – if not limited by available space – with a certain capacity requirement. We hear you think: “That’s easy!”. Length multiplied by width and height gives you the capacity in m3. Times the specific gravity gives you the tons. True and indeed easy.

Large silo installations require tremendous precision. Silo users demand an extreme tight silo for sanitary reasons. This pushes us to the limit regarding the individual silo parts tolerances. In particular, very tall silo installations are challenging.

The Bavaria Germany located pet food producer Josera will erect a new plant next to its existing facility in Kleinheubach. Both the raw materials silos as well as the intermediate- and the finished goods silos, will be executed as modular square bins.

Calabar Nigeria located Niger Mills Company Limited is a flour milling company that has been managed by Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc. since the ‘70s.

Some dry bulk and solids have a corrosive character or require maximum hygiene. There are numerous special silo coatings, but nothing beats stainless steel. At the same time, black steel is more advantageous financially.

In some industries square is rare, but it is time for a change. Where the food and feed industry rely heavily on the concept of square silos, the construction sector hardly applies this economical storage solution.

Provimi, which is Cargill’s animal nutrition and premix business, is currently rolling out a U.S. $20 million investment in South Africa. By the end of last year, Cargill gained a majority share of NuTec, a manufacturer of vitamin and mineral premix for the animal nutrition industry.

Time is money, also in case of bulk outloading. Like aircrafts must be in the air, trucks should be on the road. In order to minimize loading time, smart bulk handling plants use so called “contrasets”.

The coffee market is changing quickly nowadays. In order to meet demanding consumer wishes, new plants with new technologies are being build. Obviously these plants need storage capacity.

During Q3 and Q4 2013 two large square silo installations will be erected in Germany. Both projects concern greenfield feed mills and are turn-key projects of Ottevanger Milling Engineers from the Netherlands.

Emsland Flour Mills, situated in the western state of Niedersachsen, Germany will extend its silo storage capacity. This will be designed and executed by the Bavarian based main contractor Ing. Stefan Kastenmüller GmbH.