Ag Growth International (AGI), the Winnipeg parent company for several well known grain handling equipment and storage brands, is going to a single standard wall type for its galvanized steel bins in the North American market.
The walls of steel bins AGI sells up here in Canada and in “select northern states” under the Westeel brand are made with four-inch-wide corrugation, while in other U.S. markets AGI has been selling bins with sidewalls corrugated at 2.66 inches.
Now, however, AGI will standardize all its galvanized steel bin lines across the U.S. and Canada at the four-inch corrugation, “to align with category growth and customer demand.”
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Unfortunately, that move means AGI will close its bin manufacturing plant at Grand Island, Nebraska, about 200 km west of Omaha. The Grand Island plant has mainly made bins for AGI at the 2.66-inch corrugation.
That plant came to AGI in 2017 when it bought Global Industries, which made bins under the Stormor and MFS brands, along with other grain drying and grain handling brands such as Neco, Hutchinson and Mayrath.
“This standardized bin format strengthens AGI’s storage catalog in the United States and provides dealer customers with new products that increase their ability to compete in the widely adopted 4.00-inch corrugation market,” AGI said in a statement last month.
MFS/Stormor bins used to be promoted with the 2.66-inch corrugation as a selling feature; the manufacturer had said it “provides more steel per square inch when compared to wider corrugation of the same thickness, and that matters when you have tons of grain inside the bin.”
