Silos are the large tank type high vertical structures either made of steel or concrete for grains or other materials stored in bulk form only in monitored atmosphere，which requires mechanized handling for loading and unloading of material. Steel silos are better as they are quite cost effective as compared to concrete silos, so nowadays steel silos are the most popular form all over the world. As the great developing country, India highlights technology and development of steel silo and emphasizes on promoting relevant new construction and existing upgradation, so for China silo manufacturers there is potentially large and broad market in India.
Large Gap of Grain Silos in India
In 2015, India produced about 250 Million Tons of Food Grain and Wheat production has skyrocketed to 95 million tons on the strength of Govt. buying. Corn production has gone up to 21 million tons. Especially India has been successful in developing agriculture in its fertile northern belt, resulting in an abundance of grain.
Unfortunately, India’s ability to store it has lagged behind. Today, India has neither the capacity nor facilities to store grain safely, leading to excessive losses through exposure, deterioration and pests. Storage capacity in India has not kept pace with production increase. India loses about 10% of its grain and oilseeds annually. Storage Gap of 35 Million Tons is estimated for the 12th Plan period of India. To solve hard issues above, India government has been working best to promote storage capacity and particularly lay stress on construct modern steel silo equipments.
Grain Silos Manufacturers in India
Currently the powerful grain manufacturers in India include: Rostfrei steels Private Limited, PNEUCON Process Technologies Company, Krishna Grain Systems Private Limited, Osaw Agro Industries Private Limited, PW Silo System India Private Limited, P Square Technologies Company, just a name to list.
Rostfrei Steels is a headmost silo manufacturer in India for storage silos & material handling equipments with 10+ years of experience and 1 acre manufacturing facility. With their advantageous Zincalume technology, they can provide design & manufacturing engineering support of various grain silos and on-time delivery of products.
Osaw Agro Industries Private Limited, founded in 1984, is one of India’s foremost manufacturers of grain silos including three types of hopper bottom silo, flat bottom silo and round bin silo.
PNEUCON Process Technologies Company can manufacture a wide range of heavy duty storage equipment. The capacity of a galvanize silo featuring a flat bottom ranges between 102m³ to 20923m³. Part equipments like Pneumatic Feeding system is perfect, which is to feed the silo with Deggaing system or Unloading Bulker, Screw Conveyor, Dust Collector, Pressure safety relief valve, Vibrating Bin Areator, etc. are also supplied and fitted to the Silos.
Low cost: corrugated plate used by assembly steel silo is convenient for industrialized mass production, the cost of raw materials and processing is respectively low.
Easy to transport: silo boards and columns to be assembled have been processed into uniform galvanized steel plates and components with the same bending degree and width in advance, which facilitates vehicle transportation easily.
Good Overall Performance, Long Working Life: Flyer uses professional equipments to manufacture corn grain silos. During the rolling process, the silo wall undercut a 30mm-40mm spiral convex strip, which is 5 times thicker of the material. It helps improve the silo’s loading capacity and make the steel silo better than others in overall strength, stability and earthquake resistance. Besides, Flyer uses high anticorrosive material which makes the silo’s working life much longer than others.
Good Sealing Performance: With special equipments for bending and seaming, the quality of all parts of the silo body is guaranteed and the seal of the silo is particularly good. For corn grain silos, the process requirement of disinfection and fumigation can be well met.
Short Construction Period, Low Cost: Corn grain silos can be constructed on site and the roof can be installed on the ground. Short duration can be guaranteed for on-site construction during the whole procedure. Our professional equipments can provide a shaping speed of 3-5m per minute, so a cement silo with a capacity of 1000 tons could be done within 5-7 days. Cost-effectiveness can be achieved for light sheets are used for the whole silo which is as heavy as the rebar of concrete silo. Bilayer bending method is used to bend and shape two different sheet materials at one time, so that the cost for storing strong corrosive materials in chemical industry can be largely reduced.
Less Area Occupation, Easy Management:Compared with similar corn grain silos manufacturers in India, Flyer provides steel silos with free choices of the height and diameter within a wider range. To save space, the distance between two silos can be narrowed to 500mm. With high automatic production, temperature measurement and material level equipments, spiral silo can be operated conveniently.
Cement Storage Silos in India
Cement industry is one of the important industries in the Indian economy system, ranking top 2 in the world. From 2014 to 2019, it is estimated that cement industry in India average annual compound growth rate (CAGR) will reach 8.96%. At present, India owns 188 large cement enterprises which account for about 97% of the total production capacity, while the other 365 cement enterprises are rather small. Therefore, in India market the needs for cement storage silos are vast potential.There are many cement silo manufacturers in India. The most parts of them are famous for welded steel silo. For example, Rostfrei Steels, Hindustan Enterprises, etc.
Cement Silo Manufacturers in India
Now existing welded steel silos in India is respectively small, which is not suitable for mass cement production of large enterprise.Hindustan Enterprises is the leading manufacturer and supplier of Cement Storage Silos in India used for industrial and construction areas. The capacity of these Silos varies from 30MT to 500MT. Silos can be welded type or bolted type depending upon the capacity and suitable for transportation. It has become main silo supplier for many companies all over India.
Compared with China, China cement enterprises are prone to choose spiral steel silos. The following is the comparison between spiral and welded steel silo:
- Construction Process: Spiral steel silo is made by specialized construction equipment, so its quality is highly guaranteed; welded steel silo is made by manual welding, so quality is not completely guaranteed.
- Material for Same Silo: Material of spiral steel silo is thin; but welded steel silo thick.
- Connection Mode: Spiral steel silo adopts spiral undercutting to make it fastened together; but welded steel silo adopts welding method and easily split.
- Weight of the Same Silo: Spiral steel silo is light; but welded steel silo is heavy.
- Maintenance: Maintenance of spiral steel silo is simple; but welded steel silo needs regular corrosion prevention annually, load of work is heavy.
- Working Life: Spiral steel silo is more than 20 years conservatively; but welded steel silo is less than 20 years.
- Construction Cycle: Spiral steel silo is short; but welded steel silo is long.
- Construction Cost: Spiral steel silo is comparably cheaper; but welded steel silo is comparably expensive.
According to market analysis above, we here predict that spiral steel silo owns huge developing market potential in India.