UNITY — North West Terminal Ltd. has started construction on an upgrade to the company’s grain-receiving capacity at its Unity.
According to a press release, the company is expanding its grain receiving system to include a second platform scale with a capacity of approximately 400 tonnes per hour.
The project is expected to increase the speed at which the company can receive deliveries from its farmer customers by as much as 25 per cent through greater efficiency and flexibility. The project is scheduled to be completed in the early spring of 2017 at a budgeted cost of $867,000.
Management expects to finance the expansion using existing capital, the release states.
“The board of directors is very pleased to be upgrading the delivery system,” says NWT’s president Brad Sperle.
“We strive to be an industry leader in everything we do as a business. This expansion will allow us to better serve our farmer-customers by improving unloading speeds.”
