Newsletter November 10, 2011 Share
MGE Transforms New Afgritech Mill | Michele Hobin Receives OSHA Trainer Certification
MGE Transforms New Afgritech Mill
Maple Grove Enterprises has been working with Blue Seal Feeds for years, providing millwright services to their plants from Arcade to Watertown. When Blue Seal recently sold their Watertown plant to Afgritech, we were there to aid the transition.
Afgritech’s new mill is a state-of-the-art, computerized manufacturing facility, which will use a new patented process used for the first time in the United States.
But the mill as purchased was in rough shape, requiring a combination of demolition, rebuilding, and installation of new equipment. The silos and containment tanks were corroded, and had to be either scrapped or rebuilt. Old equipment that was no longer needed—hammer and pellett mills, feeders and a pneumatic conveying system—were removed to make way for new processing equipment shipped in from Germany.
Some of the equipment rebuilding work was performed in our Arcade shop, including fabricating and painting bucket elevator boots and trunking, a scale hopper, and all the structural steel.
Most of the work, of course, was done on site. We inspected, repaired, cleaned, and painted the remaining silos and removed two concrete floors to make room for the new structural steel mini-tower with diamond plate floors. In the truck load-out area, we removed the molasses blender, fines collection system, and hopper and replaced the gathering conveyor. We also installed new air-operated gates, cleaned and painted original load-out bins, and installed a new cross conveyor to the pelleting leg.
Maple Grove Enterprises is proud of the job and pleased to work with a company that will contribute so much to the dairy industry in New York and throughout the U.S.!
[Read more about and view photos of this job on our blog.]
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Michele Hobin Receives OSHA Trainer Certification
Maple Grove Enterprises has a new OSHA Safety Trainer! This October, co-owner Michele Hobin took and successfully completed two OSHA construction safety courses: 510 Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry and 500 Trainer Course in Occupational Safety and Health Standards in the Construction Industry.
The 500 Trainer Course places special emphasis on topics required in the 10- and 30-hour programs, as well as on those that are the most hazardous, using OSHA standards as a guide. Course participants are briefed on effective instructional approaches and the effective use of visual aids and handouts.
Michele is now certified to teach the 10- and 30-hour construction safety and health outreach program to our employees, as well as other interested groups. Says Michele, "The training program was rigorous, but well worth the effort to be able to train our employees on critical safety issues."
[More on safety at Maple Grove Enterprises]
