Rough and Raw Process of a Cleaning Plant Upgrade

If you are thinking about upgrading your current cleaning or processing line, here is a recap of how Nexeed can help from the “I think I need” to the “WOW, this is great, glad I did!” process.

Keep in mind as you are reading this, that the following is the uncut version (or reality). Pics are ones I had taken during the process, and before the construction.

Early 2023:

The customer had begun thinking seriously about updating his current Air-Screen Cleaner and Gravity Tables with units that have more capacity and will put out an even higher quality of product than they had before. They also wanted to minimize downtime due to maintenance repairs and clean up the process flow that had evolved over generations of small changes, but was causing a lot of extra clean out time between batches of seed.

Everything is possible within reason, in this case we were working with a tight space, and would be moving in larger equipment than was there before.

Later 2023:

Customer reached out to Nexeed for available equipment options with the expected results, and some budget pricing.

November 2023:

I visited the site with open ears, measuring tape, laser distance tool, graph paper, and specific machine drawings. After going through the customer wants and specific requirements the sketch below is the result, not fancy but accurate enough to know that yes, we can do this!

Late November to Mid-December 2024:

Equipment quoting stage one, meet with owners, employees, millwrights, go over optional scenarios, brainstorming, “What are we missing?” question and answer period. The plan is coming together. Detailed drawings are done. More changes made.

Late December 2024:

Detailed, specific equipment quotations are finalized, compared with the millrights “close to final drawings” to make sure nothing is missed out, deals are signed. It's all a go! Happy New Year.

Early 2024:

Equipment builds are verified. A Cimbria Delta 107 Air Screen Cleaner and a Cimbria GA310 gravity table with an overhead dust hood are ordered.

Mid 2024:

Meetings with owners, millwrights, electricians and logic programmers as the build plan progresses and final project details are worked out and refined.

November 2024:

Millwrights and electricians gut the old plant, and start getting ready for the new build. Fabrication of the peripheral elevator legs, platforms, surge hoppers etc. begins.

Container ships from the Cimbria plant in Denmark direct to site with the Delta 107 components within.

December 2024:

Container ships from Cimbria Heid Plant in Austria direct to site with the GA310 components within.

Late January 2025:

The GA310 was the last piece of the puzzle, and the millwrights did a great job of anticipating how to move this large piece into the room that already had the Delta 107 in place, where ductwork, spouting, electrical and overhead catwalk construction was also taking place.

February 3-4, 2025:

All hands on deck! Electricians finished up wiring, programmer tweaked the logic, millwrights finished on spouting, catwalks, steps, etc. I went over the Cimbria equipment, making all the final adjustments and checks needed to clean wheat.

Finally, we were ready to commission the new build! The incoming bin was full of practice wheat. The start sequence was initiated, elevators were running, surge bins were being filled, the cleaner top and bottom fans came on, the cleaner eccentric and shaker feeder was rolling, and the wheat was on the screens. Once the cleaned wheat left the cleaner it filled the surge bin above the gravity table, and the GA310 came alive!

It’s hard to explain the excitement that myself and I’m sure the owners and operators were feeling at that moment. Over a years planning and hard work was paying off!

Again, please keep in mind these pics and video below are raw footage, no dust-pans had come out and no cleanup crew had been dispatched.

So, there you have it, the timeline and process involved in making a good idea turn into a great project that will be sure to help this family Ontario seed business survive and thrive for another generation.

Were there some hiccups or delays? Yes. But due to the fact all the parties involved had been to the rodeo before, knew from experience how to avoid problems and best ways forward, the few small barriers became speed bumps and the project was a success.

Nexeed has been supplying top quality equipment and designing projects since 1993, successfully!

All it takes is a conversation with us, a bar napkin or graph paper to transfer your dream to drawings and we’ll help you through to project completion.