Malt Industry

Canada Malting Co. Limited (GrainCorp) -- Calgary, Alberta

Integrated Services

CMC has a long history as an innovator in the malting industry. Our company’s unique combination of integrated skills and services from detailed design engineering, project & construction management to the design construction of plant-wide automation systems has enabled us to become a leading company in this field. Business-wise, CMC has built an impressive legacy in the malt industry, assisting numerous clients to increase production while streamlining manpower.

Feature Project: New Tower, Malthouse ‘E’

Client: Canada Malting Limited (now GrainCorp Malt)

Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The Project

Canada Malting Limited awarded CMC the contract for the engineering design, procurement, construction supervision and commissioning of this new facility for state-of-the-art malt germinating techniques. The process design includes many innovative features for the barley malting process.

Project Goals

CMC’s goal was to enable Canada Malting Limited to meet the escalating domestic and export demands for malted barley by designing and constructing a facility with an annual throughput of 150,000 tonnes.

Project Achievements

The completed facility consists of two concrete buildings which include the following features:

An eight levels cast-in-place steep/germinating tower, with a steep tank and pre-germinating floors (530 m² each), and six germinating floors with a total area of 3,180 m²
A clear span diameter of 26 m for each of the eight floors presented a challenge that required an innovative approach to structural design
Horizontal and material handling systems with 200 tonnes per hour capacity of barley equivalent. Total germination capacity of 1,620 tonnes for the six floors
A moveable perforated floor and a loading/unloading machine for the steep and pre-germination tanks
A fixed perforated floor supported by a structural concrete sub floor, with a loading/unloading/turning machine on each of the six germination levels
Attemperation building area for mechanical/service support of 2,000 m²
Two-storey cast-in-place/pre-cast kiln/service building with a drying floor area of 900 m² and 800 m² of mechanical space. Each deck of the double-decked kiln provides a drying capacity of 300 tonnes per batch. Each deck contains a fixed floor with a loading/unloading machine.

Corporate Profile: Malt Industry

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Malting Facility Upgrade
SABMiller Latin America, Lima, Peru
CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was retained by South African brewery/miller SABMiller to prepare a technical/economic feasibility study for the upgrading and expansion of their malting plant in Lima, Peru. This project is underway.

Malt Plant Upgrade
Cargill - Prairie Malt Limited (now Boortmalt), Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada
CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was retained by Cargill to prepare a technical/economic feasibility study for the upgrading of their malt plant in Biggar, Saskatchewan. This project is underway.

Techno-Economic Feasibility Study for Malt Plant
Fabcos, Modderrivier, South Africa
Fabcos retained CMC Engineering for the preparation of a techno-economic, bankable feasibility study for the construction of a 100,000 tonnes per annum malt plant to supply malt to the major brewery in South Africa, as well as the Sub-Saharan region.

7 Projects for Canada Malting Co. (now GrainCorp Malt)
Canada-Wide (Montreal, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Calgary, and Vancouver)
A five year program completed in 1995 rationalized Canada Malting's Canadian grain handling and processing facilities. The master facility plan was created by CMC who then proceeded to design the changes and execute the plan. Total cost of this project was Cdn$150 million.

Argo Project
Canada Malting Co. Limited (now GrainCorp Malt), Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was awarded the contract to prepare a feasibility study to upgrade the plant and complete the detailed engineering design, procurement, construction supervision, and PLC and computer software development.

New Malt Handling Facility
Canada Malting Co. Limited (now GrainCorp Malt), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was awarded the contract for project management, detailed engineering design, procurement, construction supervision, and automation software development for this facility.

New Malt Plant
Froedtert Malt Corporation (now Malteurop), Portland, Oregon, USA

CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was awarded the contract for conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design for 150,000 TPA present and 300,000 TPA future malthouse, storage elevator, and infrastructure on a green field site.

Plant Upgrade and Automation
Froedtert Malt Corporation (now Malteurop), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Froedtert Malt Corporation -- Milwaukee, WI CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was awarded the contract for project management, detailed engineering design, procurement, contract supervision and automation software development for this facility upgrade.

New Fleximalt Expansion
Froedtert Malt Corporation (now Malteurop), Winona, Minnesota, USA

CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was awarded the contract for project management, detailed engineering design, procurement, construction management, scheduling, cost control,and automation software development for the addition of a 63 foot circular fleximalt compartment to the existing fleximalt plant.

Malthouse No. 2 Compartment Unloading Automation
Froedtert Malt Corporation (now Malteurop), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Froedtert Malt Corporation retained CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. to retrofit a compartment unloading system for their existing Malthouse No. 2.

Malt Plant Expansion and New Malt Plant
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CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was retained to provide a feasibility study for the expansion of a malt plant in Shanghai, China and for a new malt plant in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.

Existing Plant Review and Upgrade
Hugh Baird & Sons (now GrainCorp Malt), Witham, England, UK
CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was engaged to review and upgrade Hugh Baird's existing plant.

Malt Plant Complex Expansion
Hugh Baird & Sons (now GrainCorp Malt), Witham, England, UK
CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. provided a Feasibility Study for a major expansion of Hugh Baird's malt
plant complex in Witham.

New Malt Plant
Barret Burston Int. Pty. Ltd. (now GrainCorp Malt), Melbourne, Australia

CMC Engineering and Management Ltd. was retained to provide a Feasibility Study and Conceptual Engineering for a new malt plant to be constructed in Europe.