Falt storage in Basel
Twin-level flat store
The twin-level flat storage facility built for Ultra-Brag AG in the Auhafen port of Muttenz has a footprint of 42 by 120 meters holds a total of 27,000 cubic meters of bulk animal feeds and of 6,600 cubic meters of fertilizer. The modified design supplied by Buhler – with chain conveyors installed above the flat store roof for introducing the material into the feed storage section instead of belt conveyors inside the building – increased the customer’s total storage capacity by more than 60 percent with given building dimensions. The formulated feeds and the fertilizers are stored and handled on two completely separated building levels. The top level of the flat store is reserved for animal feeds. Its 25 compartments are filled by separate roof-top conveying systems. Fertilizer is stored on the ground floor. As the new flat store is not located on the waterside, a high-capacity, dust-free conveying system had to be constructed from the grab crane to the new shed across the railroad tracks and the road. According to Ultra-Brag, the proportion of animal feeds and derivates supplied in containers has continuously increased over the past few years. Buhler provides solutions for loading and unloading cereal grains, animal feeds, and derivatives into and from containers. This is an additional variant within the grain terminal beside the ship, rail, and road unloading and loading systems. In the flat store of the Auhafen port, Buhler installed a container tipping platform with an integrated intake pit. This allows automatic discharge of containers using a programmable logic control system. The container crane installed at the customer’s site deposits the containers directly on the dumping platform. Discharge can start as soon as the container doors have been opened.
