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| Bob Summers posted Not common, but occasionally slip form concrete elevators are built for commodities other than grain. This is the former Carey Salt mine, now the Hutchinson Salt Company, in Hutchinson Kansas. The elevator is used for salt that has been screened to be free of fines and larger chunks of the rock salt mined here. Robert Kjelland I drive by what looks to be a slip form cement elevator that appears to be used to unload and store cement. Is this possible? Most cement operations use steel for storage. Bob Summers Yes. Borton Inc in their later years did several such projects. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Bob's post I did a quick check of the distribution part of the cement plant in Oglesby, IL, https://www.google.com/.../@41.2892803,-89.../data=!3m1!1e3 That looks like concrete silos to me. The cement plant has been shut down, but they still use the distribution part. They bought the part of the Illinois Central, including the bridge, that they needed to connect to the former Rock Island railroad. They ship the cement in by rail from a plant near Greencastle, IN. https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../buzzi-unicem... |
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| JB The Milker, Jun 2013 |
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