Inside the Libya installation that made thermometry non-negotiable. If you want to know what a silo has to survive in extreme heat, look at Libya. Between 2018 and 2022, we delivered 119.500 tonnes of storage capacity across three cities: Tobruk, Tripoli, and Benghazi; for wheat, barley, and rice. Desert heat doesn’t just test the operator. […]
Desert heat doesn’t test the operator once.It tests every day. Read More »
Small footprint. Critical role, especially in extreme heat. Heat waves don’t just stress the grain; they raise the fire risk at the facility around it. Dry conditions, high ambient temperatures, and combustible dust are a dangerous combination at any storage plant. When something goes wrong, the first question is simple: is there water on site,
The most overlooked structure on a storage site:the water tank. Read More »
The difference is in the aeration, the monitoring, and the steel. Europe’s heat waves are no longer rare; they’re becoming a design condition. Extreme temperatures speed up grain respiration, trigger moisture migration inside the mass, and create hot spots that spoil stock fast, sometimes within days. A silo isn’t just a container; it’s the operator’s
A record European summer is a stress test for grain storage. Read More »
Undersizing is obvious. A terminal runs out of space during peak season and grain backs up at the gate. Oversizing is expensive, capital tied up in steel that sits empty most of the year. The right storage capacity for a port terminal or inland facility isn’t a round number pulled from a catalogue. It starts
Latin America’s grain export volumes are growing faster than its on-farm and port storage capacity. Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay keep setting new export records, but the infrastructure to hold that grain between harvest and shipment hasn’t kept pace with the ambition. That gap is not just a bottleneck. It’s an opportunity. Every tonne that sits
Spain is where SIMEZA began, and where every design decision still gets tested first. Not in theory, but in installations that operate in the same climate, same soil, and same agricultural reality as the team that built them. The Binéfar installation in Huesca tells part of that story: 60.000 tM of wheat storage capacity, delivered
The home market isn’t where you start. It’s where your standards are set. Read More »
Six months into 2026, the conversations our CEO Alberto Baena is having with clients across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East converge on the same question: how do you build storage capacity that lasts a generation, not a procurement cycle? It’s a question that has always sat at the centre of SIMEZA’s approach. A silo
When SIMEZA Silos joined the Tornum Group in 2023, the headline was market access. The more substantial story was engineering reach. From Zaragoza, SIMEZA had built a strong international presence: five continents, projects from Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia to Australia. But Scandinavia and Eastern Europe had structural realities that benefit from proximity: snow load requirements,
It’s building it as a strategic commitment. For decades, many Middle Eastern and North African countries managed grain supply through imports: reliable, abundant, assumed to be stable. The last five years have tested that assumption at every level: geopolitical disruption, supply chain fragility, and commodity price volatility. The response across much of the region has
The Middle East isn’t building grain storage as a precaution. Read More »
No universal fumigation standard exists in grain storage. No single sealed system satisfies every regulatory environment. What works in a wheat terminal in West Africa is not what Europe’s grain authorities approve, and neither answer applies in Southeast Asia. Fumigation failure isn’t a maintenance issue. It’s a grain quality issue. In some markets, it’s a