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Most silo decisions start with one question: how many tonnes? The better question is: how fast, and how completely, do you need to get them out? A flat-bottom silo is the right answer for long-term storage at scale, up to 25,000 m³ in a single unit. But it relies on a sweep auger to clear

Poland’s grain operators have a problem that steel can solve: harvest volumes are outgrowing the storage they have on site. Every season without enough capacity means grain sold too early, at a weaker price, or left exposed to risk it shouldn’t carry. That gap is why SIMEZA Silos now has three hopper-silo projects under way

El Pantar doesn’t store rice the way a wheat plant stores wheat and that’s exactly the point. Villa de Riu is a denomination-of-origin variety: small lots, slow rotation, and a harvest that can never mix with the next one. That’s a different storage problem than mass-market rice, so we engineered a different silo for it.

Watch how we engineer rice storage differently. Our new video takes you inside the @[Dacsa](urn:li:organization:9463260) plant in Sagunto, Spain, one of SIMEZA’s Mediterranean rice installations, built for a market that runs on high rotation and zero tolerance for spoiled grain. Rice isn’t wheat. Its bran layer absorbs moisture and odour faster, so a standard fumigation

Grain storage investment is accelerating in markets where food security, population growth, and supply chain resilience are converging into a single infrastructure priority. Meeting that demand responsibly requires more than manufacturing capacity. It requires a structure built to deliver consistent engineering quality across borders, technologies, and decades of operation. @[SIMEZA Silos](urn:li:organization:11009882)’s role in that structure

SIMEZA Silos’s facility has spent 50 years engineering storage systems for conditions ranging from Middle Eastern heat to Scandinavian snow loads. That expertise didn’t arrive quickly, and SIMEZA Silos doesn’t intend to stand still; the company keeps investing in R&D and new developments, backed by Tornum Group’s shared engineering resources. Steel silo design has a

Grain producers rarely need a single piece of equipment. They need a system: intake, storage, conveying, and increasingly, automated monitoring that keeps grain quality consistent from harvest to shipment. Historically, that has meant coordinating between multiple vendors, each with its own specifications, warranties, and support structure. A process that adds risk exactly where reliability matters

One Spanish manufacturer. One engineering backbone for Tornum Group’s global grain storage strategy. SIMEZA Silos, founded in 1975 in Zaragoza, designs and manufactures silos, from 8 m³ to 25,000 m³. It would be easy to describe Spain’s role in purely operational terms: a factory, a language advantage in Spanish-speaking markets, proximity to Mediterranean and Atlantic

For decades, the grain storage industry judged manufacturers by a simple measure: how many silos they could build. That question misses what investors and terminal operators now ask: when a project spans drying, storage, conveying, and automation, who is accountable for the system working as a whole? That question sits at the center of our

In 2000, SIMEZA patented a corrugated sheet design that changed how much load a steel silo panel could carry. This June marked twenty-five years since that patent, and the same geometry is still in every silo we manufacture. Conventional corrugated panels had real structural limits: they constrained silo height, load capacity, and long-term durability. The