Iowa-based grain drying systems maker Shivvers Manufacturing has bought a fellow Iowa firm, Haber Technologies. That deal, announced at the end of May, creates a new business, Shivvers Technology and Innovation Group (STIG).
“This marriage allows the opportunity to build upon the synergies between Shivvers’ established drying solutions and the cutting-edge technology Haber already offers in way of real-time remote grain storage monitoring and automated conditioning, ultimately creating a more comprehensive solution for farmers,” the two companies said in a statement.
The Haber business stemmed from an idea hatched in an ag engineering class at Iowa State University, out of which the company’s co-founders Eric Harweger and Dillon Hurd came up with what’s now known as the DRI-Stack aeration system.
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STIG will market the DRI-Stack system and DRI-Stack hopper bins along with the Auto-Bin grain storage monitoring system. Auto-Bin allows growers to track bin temperature, grain moisture, grain inventory levels, carbon dioxide levels and their aeration systems’ power use through a smartphone app.
