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On a recent trip to New Zealand, SCAFCO Grain Systems Company Vice President Dan Wambeke visited a SCAFCO installation at a milking parlor. The larger Model 2016HBTTZ4 silo on the right stores ground corn. The two 9′ hopper bottom silos on the left store palm kernel expeller and soybean meal, respectively. Dan notes that the contents of the smaller silos can be extracted by activating a magnetic vibrator on the bottom of the hopper when a void is sensed in the silo, stopping product from flowing to the discharge.
This 18,000MT wheat storage facility in Kazakhstan was in the process of loading product out to ship to flour mills in the south of the country when Mitch Kreps, Regional International Sales Manager for SCAFCO Grain Systems Company, paid a visit. Delivered in 2008, the installation features six SCAFCO 5464ES bins with Double H flush-floor aeration systems and one 1814SHBT hopper bottom silo. “The silos looked to be very clean and well managed,” says Mitch. “The manager said they’ve been very happy with the equipment.”
This cattle company in Mexico processes 1.2 million head of cattle annually, which means they have a lot of feed to store. That’s where SCAFCO Grain Systems Company comes in.
At the end of March, SCAFCO shipped a 27,000 metric ton project to the company’s Culiacan plant. The shipment included two bins storing 12,500MT of corn apiece, four wet holding hopper bins storing 500MT each, and two 55MT hopper bins for loading trucks. Every bin is rated for seismic zone 2B and can withstand 195kph winds.
A SCAFCO Grain Systems Company dealer in Mexico provided these photos documenting the installation of a 10544ES bin. It measures 105′ in diameter by 43’8″ eave height by 73.8″ overall height. Built to store 10,000MT of corn, it also includes a Quad F aeration system with four 15HP centrifugal fans, a portable temperature system with 24 cables, and a 120MTPH sweep auger. Another bin of this type will soon be installed just behind this one!
99% of American hazelnuts (sometimes called filberts) come from the state of Oregon. That is why the Hazelnut Growers of Oregon cooperative (HGO) relied on SCAFCO Grain Systems Company for their 11-million-pound, state-of-the-art storage facility!
At HGO’s yearly trade show on August 8th, SCAFCO CEO Jim McDonald and US/Canada Sales Manager Regan Heaton had a chance to view the nearly-completed project. So did over 1,000 attendees.
The scale of the HGO project is impressive, with a total capacity of well over 11 million pounds of hazelnuts: four 15’ diameter hopper bottom bins, one 24’ diameter hopper bottom bin, and four 48’ diameter stiffened commercial bins. Each bin includes a spiral letdown ladder with a 40 tons per hour fill rate. In addition to the bins, HGO also uses SCAFCO catwalks, catwalk supports, and support towers with switchback stairways. All this equipment was provided by SCAFCO dealer West Coast Companies.
“The workmanship was excellent, and the HGO event was a beautiful showcase for SCAFCO products,” says Jim (pictured at left).
Photos provided by Lori Segon Photography.
A dealer in Mexico sent SCAFCO Grain Systems Company Latin America Sales Manager Sandra Dixon this photo of a 10,000 metric ton corn silo the company shipped in May. To contain all that corn, the silo measures 105′ in diameter, with an eave height of 43’8″. Along with the bin itself, SCAFCO provided a Quad ‘F’ aeration system featuring four 15 HP centrifugal fans, a portable temperature system with 24 cables, and a 120 MTPH sweep auger.
SCAFCO Grain Systems Company’s Regional International Sales Manager Mitch Kreps’ job takes him all over the world. On a recent trip, he traveled all the way from Ukraine to Zimbabwe!
This 12,000 metric ton grain handling system was delivered to a Zimbabwean feed mill and installed more than 10 years ago. The installation features SCAFCO flat bottom and hopper bottom silos, aeration systems, bucket elevators, conveyors, towers, and catwalks, and is still fully operational today; in fact, the truck in the final photo below had just pulled in to unload soybeans.
The company’s dealer was pleased to inform Mitch that “SCAFCO has earned a reputation and is recognized as a high quality product in Zimbabwe!”
Custom design is a SCAFCO Grain Systems Company specialty! The roof you see in the first photo was engineered as a single unit, and the spiral stairway in the second added safety as well as an unusual aesthetic flair. The top walkway, which surrounds the entire silo, was also designed specifically for this project – proof that if you can think it up, SCAFCO can make it happen!
On a recent trip, SCAFCO Grain Systems Vice President Dan Wambeke paid a visit to the largest grain storage silo in Asia: a 20,000-ton SCAFCO Grain Systems Company silo in the Philippines.
This silo is also the largest SCAFCO has ever produced. Designed to withstand Seismic Zone 4, the highest acceleration due to gravity from an earthquake, it plays a key role in corn storage for the Philippines’ foremost wet corn milling company. “The plant manufactures starch for human consumption and sells the corn gluten,” explains Dan. Corn gluten is a valuable byproduct commonly used in poultry feed, as well as in the corn oil industry.
Despite the rain and humidity of the Philippines’ tropical climate, the silo is holding up nicely. “It looks surprisingly well,” says Dan.
This corn storage installation in Mexico features two 2107SHBTZ1 SCAFCO bins designed for seismic zone 1. It can withstand winds of up to 115 miles per hour! Along with the bins, which shipped earlier this year, SCAFCO also provided chain conveyors, aeration systems with axial fans, and a 75-foot-tall elevator.
Back in 2009, a customer in Latvia purchased two 6032ES-WIR bins with raised walk-in doors, each storing 2,443 metric tons of wheat. This year, he replaced one bin with a model 6064ES-WIR. At 18 rings rather than the previous nine, this bin accommodates 5,491 metric tons – more than twice his previous model – without increasing the footprint of the structure itself.
Life is rarely easy. That’s why at SCAFCO Grain Systems Company, being Built For Life includes offering you out-of-the-box flexibility and creative engineering.
When a customer approached SCAFCO with some unusual requirements for stone and aggregate storage, our engineering department took up the challenge. The result? This 30’ (9.14m)-diameter hopper bottom bin with ten rings and an eave height of nearly 52’ (16m). That’s fairly standard. Less standard are the shell around the hopper, the giant access door, the lack of any roof, and the heavy reinforcement required to handle 70 pounds per cubic foot (16kg/m3) of crushed rock and mineral fragments. Several ladders and platforms were also included in the build.