This week’s photo comes from FEECO’s Fabrication Facility located in Green Bay, WI (USA), where two assembly team members are putting together the housing to a trunnion wheel’s bearing. Trunnion wheels support the weight of a rotary drum, and provide a place for the tires …
Customer: United Wisconsin Grain Producers (UWGP) Plant Location: Wisconsin, USA Industry: Agriculture Major Equipment: 9′ Dia. x 50′ Long (2.7m Dia. x 15.2m Long) Rotary Cooler Material Handled: Dried Distillers Grains (DDGS) Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Process: As a pioneer in the agriculture industry with …
As large farms become the future of agriculture, the need for sustainable solutions in managing manure is becoming an ever-increasing focus. However, while large farms are learning to deal with the amount of manure they produce, significant opportunity lies in processing manure to produce products …
This week’s photo highlights the newest edition to the Innovation Center- a chain mill. It was designed and manufactured by FEECO, and is fully implemented into our testing facility. The new chain mill weighs in at 1134 pounds and operates with a 5 horsepower motor. …
This week’s photo highlights a FEECO pin mixer. It is one of our rental units, available for your on-site processing convenience. The continuous mixer is 10”, with the capacity varying significantly from material to material and process to process. The pin mixer also features a raising …
New additions have been added to FEECO.com, including a phosphates processing page, a coating drums page, as well as an updated brochures page. Read on to learn more about these resources. Phosphates Processing Page As experts in the field of granulation, FEECO has been providing …
Customer: Matsche Farms Plant Location: Birnamwood, WI, USA Industry: Agriculture/Dairy Major Equipment: 5 1/2’ x 30’ (1.7 x 9.1m) Rotary Dryer Material Handled: Separated Dairy Manure Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Process: Like many large-scale farms, Matsche Farms, a near 5,000-head dairy farm, had made the …
Manure presents a challenge for large-scale farms. Growing herd sizes, in combination with high land costs, have increased the amount of manure farmers manage, while reducing land available for manure disposal. Furthermore, research indicates that manure application can result in nutrient runoff, which in turn, …
This week’s photo highlights a pugmill mixer. FEECO’s Assembly Team is currently constructing the machine at our Fabrication Facility in Green Bay, WI (USA). A pugmill mixer, also known as a paddle mixer, is a horizontal mixing, conditioning, and agglomerating device ideal for processing heavy-duty …
It is an undisputed fact that the world population is growing and has, in fact, topped 7 billion people. Feeding those 7 billion people is a massive challenge for the infrastructure of every nation on our planet, with everything from finding sufficient land on which …