2018 / 2019

ORGANIC CEREAL STORAGE AND WORKING SILO

SAS NORMANDIE GRAINS BIO - MARCILLY LA CAMPAGNE

To develop its business in terms of capacity, quality, and flexibility, and to meet the various demands of the market, the Normandy-based company needed to create a new, modern, high-performance, and substantial facility for processing organic grain (organic cereals, oilseeds, and pulses) . It therefore approached the engineering firm ACOORE for the design and project management of this comprehensive and complex project, which involved several phases of work (Phase 1: Handling and storage tower, Phase 2: Sorting and packaging line, Phase 3: Drying, Phase 4: Milling).

Following a call for tenders from this independent design office, CERES AGRO-INDUSTRIE won the contract for the “mechanical equipment, ventilation and dust removal” lot.

The full expertise of our technical teams (sales engineers and design office technicians: draftsmen, designers) was essential for the installation of the various equipment both in the processing tower and in the ancillary buildings: handling, grain processing machines (scrubber, rotary cleaner, flat cleaner) , gravity piping, ventilation, and dust collection. This was done while taking into account the main constraints of processing organic grains, such as:

  • Products containing a higher quantity of impurities than in conventional agriculture,
  • Varied range of products to be received: cereals, oilseeds and legumes, such as wheat, einkorn, einkorn, einkorn, lentils, lentils, blond and brown flax, rye, triticale, peas, field beans, buckwheat, oats, quinoa, barley, camelina, etc.
  • Varieties intercropped and harvested with different maturities
  • Opportunities in human food

The numerous exchanges of plans (location of equipment, piping layouts, etc.) with the project manager, the client and the co-intervening companies: structural work, metal structures, cell builder, etc., allowed for anticipation of the implementation phase.

The industrial organization of the CERES AGRO-INDUSTRIES group then enabled its workshops to manufacture all of the mechanical equipment.

Finally, the strength of CERES MONTAGE, a CERES GROUPE company, made it possible to deploy the necessary human resources on site to meet the deadlines requested by NORMANDIE GRAINS BIO. Up to 12 fitters, led by two team leaders, worked simultaneously on site for a total period of 2 months.

Sebastian Lange

Site Director

Key information:

  • Storage capacity of 6 m³
  • 24 cells of 232 m³ on a conical base with inverted cone ventilation
  • 16 cells of 37 m³ on a conical base with inverted cone ventilation
  • 4 working bushels with a unit capacity of 32 m³, smooth interior walls
  • 3 Bushels with a capacity of 61.5 m³ on scales, smooth interior walls
  • 1 wet grain bushel with a capacity of 76 m³ located in the drying workshop, smooth interior walls
  • Throughput of 120 T/h from receipt to dispatch
  • 2 Receiving hoppers with conical bottoms
  • 6 Bucket Elevators without residue
  • 4 Chain conveyors without remainder
  • 8 Belt conveyors
  • 1 Purifier
  • 1 Plan cleaner
  • 1 Rotary cleaner
  • 1 3-input / 4-output pendulum distributor
  • 61 2-way boxes
  • 83 Pneumatic valves
  • 70 Pneumatically operated air dampers
  • 31 Manual valves
  • 3 Bag filters and dust collection networks
  • 2 ventilation networks by cold group
  • 3 Air extraction networks on closed cells.
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