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Many people search for “grain silo manufacturers” when what they actually need is two different things, from two different companies — without knowing it yet.
The confusion is understandable and it costs time. Let us clear it up.
The manufacturer makes the steel. The installer makes the silo
The manufacturer designs and fabricates: the corrugated sheet for the rings, the cones, the ladders, the aeration system, the roof. Everything arrives on trucks, in packages, with the assembly documentation.
What you get at the gate is a pile of components and a manual.
The installer turns them into a silo. Raises the rings in order, checks verticality as the structure grows, tightens the joints to the torque specified in the design, fits the cones and hoppers, the roof, the stairs and platforms, connects the conveyors and runs the trials.
The manufacturer guarantees the parts are sound. The installer answers for the silo standing straight and holding.
Why they are different companies
Because they are different trades.
A silo factory is a plant — rolling lines, presses, paint shop, warehouse. It works in series, in one place, all year.
Assembly happens on your site, with a crane, at height, subject to the weather and to how the rest of the site is progressing. The crew arrives, stays a few weeks, moves on to the next site.
Some manufacturers also have their own assembly crews. Many do not, or have them booked for months, or send them only to the large projects.
You can buy from any brand
This is the part many people do not know: you are not obliged to take the assembly from the manufacturer.
A silo is assembled according to the factory's documentation. If the documentation is followed and the tolerances are verified, the manufacturer's warranty stands.
We have assembled equipment from Riela, GSI, Petkus, Aber, Stork, Cormall and Mulmix. Each has its own documentation and its own particularities. We work to what it says, not to what we are used to.
For you that means two things. You choose the equipment on price, lead time and specification — not on who has a crew free. And if the manufacturer cannot come out to assemble within your schedule, the project does not stop.
What to ask each of them
From the manufacturer:
- real capacity in tonnes, at the density of your product, not at standard wheat
- complete assembly documentation, in the language the crew works in
- the component list and the delivery schedule by truck
- the foundation requirements: loads, anchors, levels
- the warranty conditions and exactly what voids them
From the installer:
- similar jobs, with location and capacity, not just photographs
- who runs the crew on site and who you speak to daily
- how verticality is checked and at what interval
- what equipment they bring and what they expect from you: crane, access, power, water
- public liability insurance and the certifications for working at height
- what happens if delivery is late, and who carries the standby cost
The question that sorts the offers quickly: ask for the assembly schedule, day by day. Anyone who has done the job gives it to you in two days. Anyone who has not will talk around it.
The mistake that costs the most
The foundation poured before the manufacturer's documentation is on the table.
It happens often, because the foundation is the first job and everyone wants to start. Then the silo arrives and the anchors do not match, or the level is wrong, or the redler channel is somewhere else.
Concrete does not move. It gets broken out and poured again, with two or three weeks lost and an extra invoice.
The right order is the other way round: contract with the manufacturer, documentation, then foundation.
What we do
Mechanical assembly of silos, on your site, with equipment from any manufacturer. We have been designing and building industrial installations since 2006, in Romania and beyond.
If you already have the offer from a factory and need someone to erect the silo, or if you are at the start of the project and do not know where to begin — write to us with the location, the capacity and the date you want it finished.
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