Allen's Poultry Feed Mill

Seaford, Delaware
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This feed mill for Allen’s features 20,000-bushel-per-hour corn receiving; 240-ton-per-hour ingredient receiving; 50-ton-per-hour grinding system; 19 ingredient bins with 1,700 tons of storage; and a 9-ton batching and mixing system, including one 20-bin micro system, two major scales, and one minor scale.  The pellet mill is housed in a pelleting tower directly adjacent to the main mill tower to provide adequate operational and maintenance room for the pelleting system equipment.  The fats coating utilizes a continuous-flow-style system with a variable-speed pocket feeder and dry flow meter.  Screw conveyors with multiple discharges and distributors are used for pellet distribution.  Loadout utilizes a single driveway with a weigh lorry scale.  This feed mill has a total finished feed capacity of 1,300 tons.

Additional features to the feed mill include 1,000,000 bushels of grain storage in six silos and one interstice bin, a tank farm for three liquids, two 40 hp air compressors, and one 500 hp gas/oil-fired boiler.  One 1,000-pound manlift is used to provide vertical access from grade level to the roof.  One 6,000-pound capacity pallet lift moves micro ingredients from the warehouse to the work floor.  One 7,000-bushel-per-hour grain dryer allows for the purchase of local grain at harvest.

This mill was designed with future expansion planned for receiving, grinding, and pelleting.

Owner Allen's Hatchery, Inc.

Size / Capacity 65 tons per hour initial
130 tons per hour future

Completion Time 15 months

Younglove's Services Conceptual design
Structural engineering
General construction
Construction management
Slipform concrete construction
Equipment installation
Tilt-up construction