What is A Flat Bottom Silo?

Flat bottom silo, is also called flat bottom bins or farm silo. It is designed for agricultural, industrial, commercial, and strategic applications such as large farms, inland storage facilities, grain terminals, and grain-based factories such as flour mills, feed mills, rice mills, oil mills, and biofuel facilities. They can be used for short and long-term storage of grains, corn, soybeans, rice, oilseeds, and any other granular free-flowing material.

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Our silo sheet of the drum wall is made of high-quality hot-dip galvanized steel. Our grain bins are also equipped with a scraper, belt conveyor storage system, cleaning and removing impurities, magnetic separation and iron removal, temperature measurement system, ventilation system, material change warehouse, and many other functions.

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Flat Bottom Silo Features

1. Modular design.

2. Special silos available to suit customers’ applications – standard and bespoke range.

3. All flat bottom silos include a cylinder access door and roof inspection hatch as standard – additional doors can be installed.

4. Silos are manufactured using high-grade S450 steel, protected by galvanizing to Z600 standard giving superior strength-to-weight characteristics and extremely long service life.

5. All silos are designed for high cyclic loading – high usage of the product in and out at high tonnage rates.

6. A unique single-piece roof design is used on silos up to 16m in diameter – simplifying installation and enhancing performance.

7. Galvanised, stainless, mild steel & painted options.

8. All galvanized construction.

9. Optimised design of wall stiffeners and steelwork.

10. Round flat bottom silo capacities from 1500 to 30,000 tonnes based on wheat at 750kg/m³.

11. 30-degree pitched roof, which provides integrity while maintaining low overall heights for conveyors & elevators and matches the natural angle of repose for stored materials.

12. Standard flat-bottom silos range from 3m in diameter (15 tonnes storage) to 32m in diameter (20,000 tonnes storage).

13. Custom diameters are available to suit existing bases if replacing an end-of-life silo.