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FEATURE: GRAIN STORAGE AND HANDLING PROJECTS

sites is in full progress following training and commissioning.
UAE and Egypt agreed that the Egyptian Engineering Authority of Armed
Forces and the Administration of Military
Works should select the main contractors
and supervise the entire implementation.
Cimbria was competing against companies from China, India, Turkey, the U.S.,
Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom for mechanical-electrical works.
Cimbria was selected and subsequently negotiated sub-contracts with
contractors for 15 plants, Petrojet for
four plants, Samcrete for two plants and
Misr Concrete Development Co. for the
last two plants.
The order includes project design
and engineering, supply of conveying
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weighing equipment, laboratory equipment, silos, electronic control systems
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of operation and delivery to Egypt. The
project also includes supervision of the
equipment, silos and electrical systems at
the 23 facilities. Following installation,
Cimbria will embark on a training program in which 20 Egyptian employees
at each plant will receive instruction in
operation and maintenance. Final capacity testing will also be performed prior to
handing over the many new plants.
Each of the 23 plants has a silo capac-

GSI recently provided equipment for a greenfield project by Arthur Companies in Pillsbury,
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ity of 60,000 tonnes, including conveying
and cleaning facilities with a capacity of
200 tph. Total silo capacity will amount to
1.38 million tonnes. The locations of the
23 plants stretch from the Mediterranean
Sea and Suez all the way down to Aswan,
in addition to a plant west of Aswan.
Egypt has a high consumption of
grain, is a leading importer of wheat
and has an annual import of 17 million
tonnes of different grain products. Local
production takes place on 4% of Egypt's
rural land, corresponding to a total production of 23 million tonnes of a range
of different grain products.
Of the 23 plants being delivered,
Cimbria will be supplying 12 facilities
for The Egyptian Holding Company
for Silo Storage under the Ministry
of Supply & Home Trade, which will
primarily be used as a buffer and intermediate storage facilities for imported

Sweet equipment provided for UCAY Cooperative in Mexico. Photo courtesy of Sweet.
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wheat. Ten facilities will be erected for
the Principal Bank for Development &
Agricultural Credit under the Ministry
of Agriculture and Land Reclamation
at various locations throughout the
country, to which farmers can sell and
deliver locally produced grain.
Currently, a substantial part of the
grain received by the Ministry of Agriculture is stored outdoors, which results
in enormous losses. The new silos will
replace such open bag storage facilities.
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shipment was received in May.
The GSI equipment included six 72foot, 30-ring storage tanks with GSI
X-Series sweeps; six GSI 24-foot hopper
tanks; a Zimmerman Z-7000 commercial
tower dryer; GSI belt conveyors; GSI
drag chain conveyors; GSI bucket elevators; and Intersystems truck probe.
SWEET ASSISTS MEXICAN COOPERATIVE
Located in northwestern Mexico,
Semillas Seleccionadas del Yaqui, also
known as UCAY Cooperative, wants to
become an all-inclusive supply chain
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