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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 […]

In May, Latin America’s grain sector gathered in Panama City for GRAINOVA 360, and SIMEZA was there as a strategic partner, not an exhibitor with a catalogue. Post-harvest losses across the region still sit between 15% and 30%, with smallholder operations most exposed to the gap. Countries once comfortable relying on export infrastructure are now

Four hopper bottom silos. 3.000 tM capacity each. 13.8 metres in diameter. 12.000 tM total. In May, SIMEZA published about what is now the world’s largest hopper bottom silo installation, and it happened because gravity discharge doesn’t lose efficiency at scale. It gains importance. No sweep augers to maintain. No grain residue between cycles. No

In one month, SIMEZA’s booth moved from Bangkok to Tashkent. March opened at GRAPAS Asia 2026, booth J001, talking grain processing and milling infrastructure with operators across Southeast Asia. Days later, our team was on the floor at AgroWorld Uzbekistan, discussing storage for a market investing heavily in its own agricultural infrastructure after decades of

In February, the Tornum Group’s European sales delegations came to Zaragoza to see SIMEZA’s storage solutions up close, not on a slide deck, but on the ground. The visit went beyond our facility in Utebo. Delegations walked the active units at Grupo Vall Companys’ plant in Ejea de los Caballeros, one of their largest operational

FIMA 2026 opened in Zaragoza last February, and for SIMEZA, that’s not a trade fair on the road. It’s home ground. Fifty years after our founding in this same city, we welcomed plant operators, engineers, and agribusiness managers from across Europe to talk through real storage problems: hopper silos for fast discharge, flat-bottom designs for

Storage is only half the grain quality equation. The Eco Stirmaster, from our colleagues at TORNUM POLSKA, handles the other half: drying. It’s a mixing and drying silo: grain dries in place through in-bin stirring, with NMC moisture control keeping the process even from the outer wall to the core, on a lower energy input

European grain storage engineering assumptions don’t travel. Climate, civil infrastructure, logistics, and local regulation all change the brief. A design that works in Zaragoza doesn’t automatically work in Lagos, Manila, or Riyadh; assuming it does is where projects run into trouble. In Sub-Saharan Africa, civil works and power infrastructure shape the engineering brief before a

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.

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,