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FEATURE: GRAIN STORAGE AND HANDLING PROJECTS

tph, one pre-cleaner with a capacity of
120 tph, three catwalks, one tower and
distributors.
NEW CANADIAN FACILITY TO HANDLE
WHEAT, CANOLA, BARLEY
A new wheat, canola, and barley facility is taking shape in the Canadian prairie, requiring all new equipment as well
as 1.5 km of new railway track. FWS
Group of Companies is designing and
building the entire terminal for CWB
in Bloom, Manitoba. FWS has purchased bins and catwalks from Westeel,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Westeel, which was recently acquired
by Ag Growth International (AGI), provided two Centurion grain bins (model
Molino Sonora partnered once again with Kepler
Weber for construction of a new rice mill in Yopal, Colombia. Photo courtesy of Kepler Weber.

gates and connecting valves for the facility, which handles various grains but
mostly corn.

include storage for canola/rapeseed for
oil extraction, is beginning.
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corn including: two 5,000-tonne bins
with a 75-foot diameter, an eave height
of 51 feet and 8 inches, and an overall
height of 72 feet, 2 inches; two 500-tonne
drying bins with a 27-foot diameter, an
eave height of 40 feet, 1 inch and an
overall height of 47 feet, 5 inches; and
two 300-tonne hopper bottom bins with a
diameter of 18 feet and an overall height
of 60 feet, 4 inches.
Lambton Conveyor Limited, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada, supplied 12 drag
chain conveyors with a capacity of 100

NEW RICE MILL IN COLOMBIA
Molino Sonora partnered once again
with Kepler Weber, Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil, for construction of a new rice mill
in Yopal, Colombia. The company has
been a client of Kepler Weber since 2011.
Construction of the facility, which hanGOHVSDGG\ULFHWRRN¿YHPRQWKVWRFRPplete. Kepler Weber provided the metalOLFVLORVÀDWDQGKRSSHUERWWRPIRUWRWDO Lambton Conveyor Limited recently provided six
rice storage capacity of 18,000 tonnes. bins elevators for corn to a Chilean grain hanThe silos have a diameter of 21.83 me- dling company. Photo courtesy of Lambton.
ters, an eave height of 15.75 meters and
peak height of 22.16 meters. Each silo
has a capacity of 6,559 cubic meters.
It also provided an industrial sweep auger, an 80-tph chain conveyor, a 20-tph
screw conveyor and a 50-tph cleaning
machine.

A new wheat, canola, and barley facility is taking shape in the Canadian prairie in Bloom,
Manitoba, with bins and catwalks supplied by
Westeel. Photo courtesy of Westeel.

7819) measuring 24 meters (78 feet) in
diameter and 28 meters (91 feet) in height
with a 48-meter long (157 feet) Westeel
catwalk. The bins have Westeel's patented

CHILE CORN, RAPESEED FACILITY
COMPLETES FIRST PHASE
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handling company in Chile is adding
silos and equipment to store corn. The
year-long construction of phase 1 is
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