We have completed constructing three 3000 tons mineral storage tanks (Φ16m×H20m) in Xinjiang, China. Our client is an ore mining company, they ordered these two tanks for the storage of mineral materials like limestone and coal.

Xinjiang is a large province located in northwestern China. There are numerous mountains and rivers in Xinjiang, including the famous Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains. Thus it is one of the provinces with the most abundant mineral resources in China.

The climate in Xinjiang is dry and the land is geologically loose. Building large storage here is a very challenging task. But our talented engineer still successfully designed the construction plan after careful investigation and measurement of the construction site.

Eventually, these two mineral storage tanks were completed smoothly and our client was satisfied with our work.

About AGICO Mineral Storage Tank

AGICO Cement International Engineering Co., Ltd is a professional silo storage solution provider. We design and manufacture bulk storage tanks and silos of various sizes.

The main structure of the mineral storage tanks was made of galvanized steel, which gives the tank strong durability and high resistance against corrosion.

If you are interested in our service, you can feel free to contact us!

I. Project Overview

This is a spiral steel silo project built for Shouguang Lifei Concrete Admixture (Group) Co. Ltd. The project contains 13 cement storage tanks in total, three of them are 16m wide and 18m high,  used for homogenized cement storage; the rest ten tanks are 9m wide and 16m high for raw cement storage.

II. Basis & Content Of Design

The design of the project is mainly based on the technical requirements of the construction party and the layout plan of the silos, following the below specifications:
Load Code for the Design of Building Structures (GB50009-2010), Code for Design of Building Foundation (GB50007-2011), Code for Design of Reinforced Concrete Silos (GBJ50077-2003), Code for Design of Concrete Structures (GB50010-2010), Technical Code for Ground Treatment of Buildings (JGJ79-2012), Code for Seismic Design of Buildings (GB 50011-2010).

Design content: silo foundation

III. Construction

1. Silo location: the construction party will make reasonable location arrangements for the silos according to the factory floor plan, technology requirements, and drawings.
2. Elevation: outdoor designed elevation is used as the specification m ±0.000 for the project
3. Detailed treatment: the construction party shall make its own treatments of internal and external painting to coordinate the other buildings in the factory. Outside all structural layers, a 1:2 cement mortar surface with 20 in thickness should be made.

IV. Structure

1. Civil construction unit and construction party shall organize construction and acceptance according to Code for Acceptance of Construction Quality of Building Foundation （GB50202-2002）and Code for Acceptance of Construction Quality of Concrete Structures（GB50204-2002）, especially including construction quality and inspection of concealed works.

2. Cover to reinforcement: 35mm thick for column, beam, and base plate

3. Steel connection:

Welding connection or mechanical connection should be preferentially used to steel connection. When welding, flash butt welding; or electric arc welding should be adopted, which can guarantee that the seam length of double-sided welding is 5d and the numbers and locations of joints are staggered to meet the standard requirements.

4. When construction, special attention to the elevation, quantity, and location of various embedded parts of the silo bottom with vibration compacting must be paid to.

5. Before slope filling inside the silos and water flashing & solid filling outside the silos, internal and external walls shall be painted asphalt twice in the height range of slope filling. Other methods shall refer to Slope Filling Instruction.

6. Material:

Concrete grade: cushion layer C15, the others C30

Reinforced steels: I Grade (HPB300 Reinforced steel)

III Grade (HRB400 Reinforced steel)

7. Seismic fortification intensity: Ms7.0 earthquake; Building safety grade: 2 Grade.

V. Foundation Construction

According to the geological survey report of the construction party, the project adopts φ600 bored pile to process. Details can be seen in structure 12.

VI. Precautions

1. In order to ensure normal and safe use of the silos, settlement observation must be made in the three stages of construction, loading test, and normal use according to relevant state codes. The settlement differences between the silos should be paid more attention to. Settlement observation records shall deliver to the design unit.

2 In the process of loading and formal use of the silos, the loading must be stopped as any abnormal situation occurs and the settlement observation shall be also recorded. The emergency measures should be taken properly, which shall be informed to the relevant unit.

3. Settlement observation records shall be sent to the design unit.

We built a grain silo project for Baiyudong (Hebei) Flour Industry Co., Ltd in 2012. This project includes four silos. These grain silos are 16 meters wide and 27 meters high, and each of them is capable of storing 7000 tons of grain material.

These silos are mainly used to store wheat, for our client is a flour supplier and they need large capacity warehouses to safely store their huge wheat stocks.

This project began on April 19^th, 2012. We sent our professional construction team and supplied them with four sets of silo construction equipment. With brilliant construction skills and rich experiences, this team completed these four large silos on May 26^th, 2012. Only took 37 days to finish this arduous task.

The team not only completed the project with great efficiency but also achieved excellent quality. These silos are still standing high in our client’s workshop yard, and keeping their wheat stock in safe storage.

About Our Client

Located in the plains of northern China, Xingtai City is one of China’s high-quality wheat-producing areas. And it is the city in which our client, Baiyudong (Hebei) Flour Industry Co., Ltd locate. Our client is an enterprise together with storage, processing, quality control, marketing, scientific research, logistics and after-sales service.

When they bid for the project, we successfully won the bid with our excellent product quality and rich construction experience. Their boss said that they believe in our excellent products and perfect pre-sale, sales, and after-sales service systems.

About AGICO Grain Silo

As one of the most outstanding silo manufacturers in China, we always insist on providing customers with the best quality silos and the most attentive services. With experienced and well-trained professional construction team, we can build grain silos for you in both high efficiency and great quality.

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Project File

We have finished a wastewater treatment tank project in Jilin, China. This project contains four individual wastewater tanks, each of which has a diameter of 16m and a height of 14m.

These four tanks are mainly used to process wastewater in the Songhua River. The Songhua River is one of the seven major rivers in China. This river gave birth to fertile land and raised a large population. However, in recent decades, water contamination in the Songhua River has become increasingly serious. The lives and development of the surrounding people are affected by the problem of water pollution.

Today, people’s awareness of environmental protection is getting stronger. The local government also vigorously carried out the management of water pollution.

AGICO Steel Silo is so proud to be part of the environmental protection project, it is truly an honor to provide our products for this wastewater treatment project.

AGICO Wastewater Treatment Tank

Our wastewater treatment tanks can be equipped with much auxiliary equipment, including a bucket elevator, cleaning system, delivery system, drying system, ventilation, and fumigation system, temperature measurement system, etc. This auxiliary equipment can be customized by the customer to meet their requirements.

We also provide dry bulk storage tanks and silos such as cement silos, sand silos, grain silos, and coal silos. You are welcome to send us a message if you have any questions about material storage!

Project Summary

We completed the construction of three 800-ton chemical storage tanks (Φ8m×h12m) in Hunan, China. These three tanks are used to store chemical oxides. This chemical is irritating and toxic and therefore requires very high sealing of the storage tanks. After repeated comparisons, the customer finally chose our chemical tanks.

Client From Hunan, China

This is a company that mainly sells antimony oxide. In addition to these three 800-ton chemical storage tanks, we also helped them build a storage tank (Φ6m×h10m) to store arsenic trioxide. The customer praised us for making great contributions to the development of the chemical industry.

About AGICO Chemical Storage Tank

Chemical storage tanks are one of the most popular products produced by our company. Ordinary silos cannot store highly unstable, corrosive, toxic, or radioactive chemicals. Our storage tank is made of high galvanized carbon steel, the unique double-seam system makes our tanks have no bolts, thus ensuring good airtightness, making them ideal for storing bulk chemicals.

AGICO Silo built a 500 tons cement storage tank (Φ8m×H8m) for our client from Guangxi, China.

For this project, AGICO Silo dispatched an experienced silo construction team with 10 workers. With professional skills and years of silo construction experience, they completed this project quickly and well.

Our client was also pretty satisfied with this cement storage tank project and spoke highly of our worker’s splendid skills.

Our client is a company specializing in the cement and slag business. Besides this 500 tons tank, they also ordered another two cement storage tanks with a diameter of 16m and a height of 20m.

Our cooperation this time is a great success. The client said that they will contact us again if they should need any other storage solutions in the future.

Guangxi is located on the southern coast of China. The terrain is very complex, including mountains, hills, and plateaus, and there are many rivers flowing through it. Because of this complex terrain, the construction of the project has faced many challenges. In combination with local topography and climate characteristics, we set up a targeted plan for this tank construction, and finally achieved the success of the project.

AGICO Silo applies the most advanced technology of spiral folded steel tanks in its tank construction projects.

AGICO Silo guarantees the highest safety level and quality standard of its storage tanks. We specialized in the construction of chemical storage tanks, mineral storage tanks, cement storage tanks, wastewater treatment tanks, and grain silos.