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FEATURE: GRAIN STORAGE AND HANDLING PROJECTS

cluded: a 200-tph 20x20 receiving drag
conveyor; transfer drag, 200-tph silo
loading day conveyors; two additional
silo loading drag conveyors; silo reclaim
transfer drag conveyors; 600-tonne silo
reclaim drag conveyor, 20x20 at 200
tph; transfer drag from dryer, 20x20 at
200 tph; 12x17 200-tph truck loadout
drag conveyor; receiving bucket elevator;
155 feet of 200 tph, 36-inch 12x8 loading and reclaim bucket elevator; 155 feet
of 200 tph, 36-inch 12x8 loading/reclaim
bucket elevator; eight 500-tonne 750-foot,
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27-foot hopper bottom silos; one 12-foot,
6-ring truck loadout hopper bottom silo;
supports and catwalks; and spouting, distributors and valve options.

Sukup Manufacturing Co. recently supplied equipment to Flesgran in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, for
a project that doubled its capacity. Photo courtesy of Sukup.

IOWA COOPERATIVE ADDS TO STORAGE
,QWKHODVW¿YH\HDUV*ROG(DJOH&RRSerative has added nearly 14 million bushels of grain storage. Its most recent greenMEXICAN FACILITY DOUBLES CAPACITY ¿HOG SURMHFW ZDV LQ :HVOH\ ,RZD 86
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cility in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, and portions of the towers and catwalks.
making it one of the largest storage facil- The facility primarily handles corn.
ities in the country. Sukup ManufacturThe newest addition took 6 to 7
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20,000-tonne facility built two years ago, storage bins with a diameter of 105 feet
and the recent 20,000-tonne expansion.
and capacity of 750,000 bushels of corn
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plete. Flesgran handles corn and sor- a diameter of 72 feet and capacity of
ghum at the facility.
280,000 bushels of corn.
Sukup supplied 105-foot-diameter,
Brock also supplied a commercial tower
12-ring bins; 75-foot-diameter, 12-ring dryer with a drying capacity of up to 4,700
bins; 30-foot-diameter 8-ring bins; a bushels per hour for drying wet corn from
150-tph receiving pit; a 300-tph unload- GRZQWRPRLVWXUH$VLJQL¿FDQW
ing system; bucket elevators and drag amount of Brock structures were also part
conveyors; and a triple stack grain dryer. of the towers and catwalks.

Lambton recently completed a 40,000-tonne grain storage facility in Carmelo, Uruguay.
Photo courtesy of Lambton.
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Chief recently supplied four storage bins and
grain handling equipment to Lala-Nuplen in
Mexico. Photo courtesy of Chief.

NEW BINS FOR MEXICAN FACILITY
Chief Industries Inc., Kearney, Nebraska, U.S., recently completed a project for Lala-Nuplen in Torreon, Mexico.
The general contractor for the project
was Meprosa, SA de CV.
Chief supplied four 105-foot diameter
bins that are 36 meters high. Total storage capacity is 96,096 cubic meters. The
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bucket elevators with a capacity of
1,200 tph with 400 hp and a discharge
height of 155 feet. The facility has HiRoller belt conveyors with a capacity of
1,200 tph.
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