Galvanised grain storage silos at a brewery with conveyor and catwalk

Silos / Grain Storage

Grain storage silos, built for breweries and feed mills.

Galvanised grain silos for breweries, feed mills, and food processors. Aeration, level instrumentation, catwalks, and inventory hardware can all be specified on the install. Every silo can be connected to a remote-monitoring app, personalised to your site. Sized between 10 and 500 metric tonnes per silo.

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10 to 500 MT per siloGalvanised · Aerated · Instrumented

01What it is

Storage and instrumentation, sized together.

A storage silo without aeration in a tropical climate eventually becomes a quality problem. Without level instrumentation, it becomes an inventory problem.

We treat both as defaults, not options. The base silo is a hot-dip galvanised cylindrical vessel with a 30° conical roof. On top of that, we add cross-flow aeration to manage grain moisture and radar level transmitters to give the plant a real-time inventory readout.

Catwalks span between silos so your operators can walk the array safely. Ladder cages are OSHA-style. Discharge is via sweep auger or a 45° hopper, your call based on the downstream conveyor.

Galvanised · aerated · instrumented — 10 to 500 MT per silo

NS-SL-GR · hot-dip galvanisedSpecification30° conical roof · ex-works 8–12 wk

02Specifications

The base spec, then your overlays.

Material: Hot-dip galvanised steel, corrugated wall panels
Capacity range: 10 to 500MT
Diameter range: 3 to 11m
Roof type: Conical roof, 30° pitch, aluminium or galvanised
Hopper option: Flat-bottom with sweep auger, or 45° hopper for clean discharge
Aeration: Optional cross-flow fans with under-floor ducting
Level instrumentation: Radar (continuous) or rotary paddle (set-point)
Catwalk and access: Galvanised catwalks between silos, OSHA-style cages on ladders
Inventory tracking: Connects to our remote-monitoring app, personalised to your site
Lead time: 8 to 12 weeks ex-works, plus on-site assembly

03Where they fit

Sized for East African plants, not export-only volumes.

Breweries

Malt and adjunct storage between intake and milling. Typical sizing per silo: 20 to 80 MT for craft, 100 to 300 MT for large-scale breweries.

Feed mills

Maize, wheat, and oilseed intake silos plus finished-feed dispatch silos. We design the array around your conveyor geometry.

Food processors

Bakery flour storage, mill intake, soya and pulse handling. Aeration recommended for tropical climates.

04Defaults, not options

Without aeration, a quality problem. Without instrumentation, an inventory problem. We treat both as defaults, not options.

Capacity ceiling, per silo500 MT

From 10 MT craft intake to 500 MT industrial malt.

Diameter ceiling11 m

Corrugated galvanised wall panels, 3 to 11 m.

Conical roof pitch30°

Aluminium or galvanised, sweep auger or 45° hopper below.

10 to 500 MT per siloRadar inventory · rotary paddle alarmsBolted on-site, no field welding

Aeration guidance · tropical-climate storage

“Cross-flow fans with under-floor ducting are inexpensive to fit during fabrication and expensive to retrofit later.”

05Common questions

What brewery and feed-mill operators ask first.

Do I really need aeration on a grain silo?

On anything above 50 MT and any silo running in lowland or coastal humidity, yes. Tropical-climate grain silos without aeration eventually develop hot spots, condensation, and quality problems. Cross-flow fans with under-floor ducting are inexpensive to fit during fabrication and expensive to retrofit later.

What level instrument should I use on a grain silo?

Radar (26 GHz or 80 GHz) is the right answer for continuous level readout, including inventory tracking. Rotary paddle is the right answer for cheap high-level alarms or set-point detection only. Most of our brewery and feed-mill customers want both: paddle for hi/hi alarm, radar for inventory.

How do I size a silo array for a brewery or feed mill?

Per-silo capacity is driven by the upstream conveyor, not the plant. For craft breweries, 20 to 80 MT per malt silo is the typical range; for large industrial breweries, 100 to 300 MT. Feed mills cluster around 50 to 150 MT for raw grain intake. We design the array against your conveyor geometry and turnover rate.

How is a silo array delivered and assembled?

Galvanised panels and the conical roof leave our workshop on flatbed. On-site assembly is bolted, no field welding, with our supervisor on the crew. A 4-silo array on a prepared concrete pad typically erects in 3 to 5 weeks, with electrical, aeration ducting, and level instrumentation tied in during the same window.

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