L.A. Grain
Wilson, Alberta, Canada
 L.A.
Grain Ltd. is a commercial grain buying and shipping company. They
receive grain into their ten-inch Hutchinson Grain Pump which is
looped around seven hopper bins, each of railcar capacity, and four
25,000 flat bottom bins - all in one line running parallel to the
railway.
L.A. Grain cleans all of its grain purchases to export standards
prior to loading out onto rail cars. The clean grain is distributed
to the same storage bins with a second six inch pump. The ten-inch
pump also loads out to railcars. The entire system is powered by
two 30-hp motors.
Key Features:
- Two Hutchinson Grain Pumps, one ten-inch, one six inch
- Seven railcar capacity hopper bins
- Four 25,000 flat bottom bins
- Two 30-hp motors
The initial system was installed in 1996 and has since been acquired
by Louis Dreyfus Canada Ltd., one of the largest commodity companies
in the world.
Consultant/Owner Ken Getty is impressed with the capacity of the
system, "We estimate that the system receives, turns, blends, and
loads out around 100,000 metric tonnes per year."
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