Craven-Lyle Ethanol Facility
Project Manager: Roger Bir
Completion Date: November 2021
Scenery Chairman: Dave Van Wagoner
- The proposed facility was approved by the membership in August 2020 with a budget of $300.
- The initial production was delayed for three months. Another project in the same locale was proposed and it took until November to reach a final decision. The area was cleared and the surface painted brown. The first part of the facility was the installation of the backdrop
- In the lower left is one of two truck scales in the facility.
- All the track is laid and ballasted. Next phase was install and paint the roadways.
- The facility was opened for the November 2021 Open House. Our first event since the pandemic began.
- The main auger transfer from the storage silos to the corn storage bins. From there, the product is dried and then fed into a final storage bin.
- This is the off-load platform for truck and train car.
- The blue 55 Chevrolet is homage to a good friend from high school, Nancy Avis. Quiet in high school...until she get's into her 55.
- One of three rail car scales on the facility.
- These storage silos are for corn.
- Main company employee parking lot.
- The ethanol facility off-loading platform for trucks and rail cars.
- The drying bin in the center handles all wheat drying.
- One of two truck-scales within the facility.
- Working on the catwalk above the wheat storage bins.