During a recent visit to the factory, SCAFCO Grain Systems’ Regional Sales Manager, Dutta, saw and felt, first hand and by hand, just how seriously SCAFCO takes seismic design criteria. In the photograph, Dutta lifts the welded and hot dipped galvanized base of a SCAFCO flat bottom silo stiffener column to demonstrate for the camera just how heavy it can be with proper seismic design for a big silo. “And it is not just the heavy SCAFCO supplied steel”, Dutta points out. “SCAFCO engineering also provides customers with design criteria to help assure that contractors install the proper foundation for local earthquake conditions”.
The structure shown in the photograph is a partially assembled hot dipped galvanized steel SCAFCO hopper bottom silo support structure. “With the incidence of earthquakes in my Southeast Asia territory, SCAFCO dealers are confident in representing a supplier whose engineering standards are so high”, Dutta adds.