Building finished on Seaboard Foods Holyoke feed mill

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Construction has actually finished on Seaboard Foods new feed mill. The plant found in Phillips County, Colorado has a production capability of 260,000 tonnes per annum.

The feed plant will produce feed for the Colorado-based live functions of the Seaboard Foods incorporated system, and will certainly replace 2 feed mill-hands situated in Yuma and Sedgwick Counties, Colorado.

The state-of the-art feed production plant features the most up to date energy-saving and dust-collection technology for feed mills.

Iowa business Todd & Sargent, was the general service provider for this job.

Features at the Seaboard feed mill consist of:.

- Receiving System: One vehicle getting line ranked at 250 TPH/12,500 CFH.

- Ingredient Storage Bins: 18 ingredient containers to twin shaft mixer - 1,900 loads; 2 pellet mill rise bins - 270 lots; 12 bulk loadout containers - 1,232 tons.

- Whole Grain Storage: 150,000 bushel ability.

- Grinding Systems: One 40 TPH line and one 20 TPH grinding system.

Batching: 80 TPH capability. One 5-ton double shaft blender and one 20 container micro ingredient system.

- Pelleting: 40 TPH ability. One pellet mill-hand with a 500 HP electric motor and counterflow colder.

The direct-drive pellet mill from Buhler includes no gear box. Without any gear reduction there is determined 20 % electricity saving. Coast Foods were the very first to acquire the specific Buhler pellet mill design, and there are a few much more being used in the nation.

- Pelleting system located in a slipformed building connected to mill.

- Support Systems: Complete electric installation, plant automation, and mechanical setup.

Trick subcontractors and providers for this task consists of Buhler pelleting devices, Interstates Electric, Knutson Brothers Mechanical, Beta Raven Control Systems, and Buresh Building Systems.

Before the completition of this plant, Seaboard Foods ran 6 feed mills in the nation.