Updates

In the past few months, TSC’s office has been renewed, expanded and redecorated. Because of the growth over the past few years – in both turnover as number of employees – the office became too tight.

The spelt market has grown massively over the last decade thanks to recognition of its nutritional benefits and taste. Spelt, also known as dinkel wheat, is a very old grain and a distant cousin of wheat. It has a unique gluten structure which makes it easier to digest and it is full of nutrients and fibres.

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.

TSC reports a large silo building order to be erected in the central Chinese province of Shaanxi. The installation will be part of an animal nutrition plant extension, operated and owned by a substantial German premix specialist. The 60 bins contain almost 12.000m3 of storage capacity will be erected from late 2014. It is TSC’s first project […]

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.