Special to both plants is a 500 sq. ft. steam-heated hot room for melting/heating solid/viscous materials.
Bulk Liquid Storage and Terminaling
- Bulk tanks for lease
- Storage capacity: nearly 2.5 million gallons of indoor bulk liquid storage
- Electronic level indication
- Four bulk truck load-out stations (all covered and diked)
- Rail, tank truck & ISO container capabilities
New Liquid Formulation & Packaging Plant
- Liquid formulation and filling of micronutrient concentrates
- 6,000-gallon stainless steel computerized formulation vessel on load cells
- Formulation vessel jacketed with heating and cooling capabilities
- Production capacity of up to 15,000 gallons per 24 hours
- Ability to polish filter finished product
- Fully automated 2.5-gallon bottle filling line (one gallon minimum container size)
- Packaging capacity of 6,000 to 10,000 gallons per eight-hour shift
- Automatic capping, heat induction sealing and labeling
- Video-Jet lot numbering of bottles and cartons
- Automatic case packing, tape sealing and labeling
- 200,000-gallon bulk storage with indoor truck scale and load out
Impregnated Granular Plant
- Impregnated herbicide granules (clay based)
- Production capacity of up to 400,000 pounds per 24 hours
- Dust-removal system so effective, workers need no respirators
- Two silos with direct hopper car access, able to hold 1,000,000+ lb. of carrier
- Two rail spurs for bottom off-loading of hopper cars and top off-loading of tank cars
- Weigh cell controlled addition system
- Clay heating capabilities prior to impregnation
- Granules pre-screened for fines and post-screened for overs removal
- Bulk finished product storage of 800,000 lb. and ability to load bulk trucks by weight
Scale up operations from lab scale batches that would simulate actual production in our larger systems (6,000 gallons) mix tanks.
EQUIPMENT
- 316 stainless steel, coned bottom Pilot mix tank with up to a 50-gallon capacity. Optimal batch size is 35 to 45 gallons
- Pilot tank is equipped with recirculation and a cleanout spray ball
- Sock filter housing that will 1 micron, 10 micron, 50 micron, and 100 micron filters
- Platform scale that is capable of 1,000.0 lbs. and displays 0.1 lb. accuracy
- Mixing system is a 3-blade propeller Lightnin mixer with a variable speed drive
- Both the recirculation pump and the mixer are connected to an analog to digital converter to measure amp draw