The high speed blending tower will increase efficiencies for several Mercer Landmark branch locations and have the capacity to blend 25 ton loads in six to eight minutes. It positions Mercer Landmark to better serve farmers with dry crop nutrients in northern Van Wert, Paulding, southern Defiance, and western Putnam counties by minimizing handling and transportation.
The expansion also enables Mercer Landmark to better provide agronomy products and services for Mercer Landmark grain customers that do business with the Antwerp, Sherwood, Grover Hill, and Oakwood facilities. This gives the customer a better opportunity to receive patronage and stock redemption for agronomy purchases in addition to what they may already be receiving for grain, feed, and energy business. Future expansion opportunities at Latty may include seed, crop protection products, and liquid fertilizers.
Foundation work started late in September and the expansion should be operational by early 2012. Follow the construction progress as we update our website.Monday February 6 had Kraner deliver and install steel supports around the leg. Guardian continued to frame around the tower. Dome Corp welded additional center pipe support and made better bulkhead door pins. Hartzog sided electric room and built door... (More)
Wednesday Feb 1 Guardian worked on replacing load out shed shingles the wind had tore up a week ago. They met with Ned from Dome Corp to review how to enclose the tower to the roof. They began to frame up this area. Dome Corp met with Kraner to discuss... (More)
Monday Jan 23 has Guardian roofing dome panel seams up high until it was too windy in the afternoon. They moved down lower to finish the day by placing the lower flashing and wrapping the west side of dome entrance. Wachtler assembled leag head section... (More)
Monday Jan 16, Kraner sided the east wall and north peak of the loadout building. Guardian continued to shingle the dome. Tuesday Jan 17, Guardian shingled until early afternoon when high winds started making it unsafe to be up in the air. Kraner worked on the sliding... (More)
Monday Jan 9 had the roofers finish shingling the north peak of the loadout shed and they took delivery of 2 bigger lifts. Kraner worked on the transition to the old building and wrapped the doorways. Strongform set grade stakes in the loadout south floor area... (More)
This week was another one of weather challenges. Between rain, snow and most of all wind, there was a lot of progess made on the loadout shed. I believe the conditions added over 2 days to the process this week. Forgot to mention last week that the Wachtler... (More)
This has been a week of a lot of challenge and progress. Dec 12 found the crews of Dome Corp, Strongform, Kraner Construction, and Jay Dangler Excating all trying to get something done in almost the same space. Dome Corp continued to go upward with the dome roof... (More)
Monday Dec 5 was almost a total rainout. The dome wall forms around the entrance were finished. The intent was to pour them but the weather prevented it. Instead, the crew capped them with visqueen to keep the predicted snow out... (More)
Thursday had the arrival of needed forms and shipment of unneeded forms out. Strongform and Dome Corp worked together to put the forms together for use. Friday they both continued to team up to set the forms to finish the dome wall and doorway... (More)
Last Monday, 11/21, Strongform poured the tower footers and set steel in the conveyor tail footer. They finished the wall forms for the next pour. Won a battle with the state building examiner today regarding our truck scale. After a lot of back and forth and a good picture... (More)
Monday had the crew begin pulling wall forms and set them on the outside for next wall pour. Electric disconnect boxes were delivered. Big rain and wind came late in afternoon. Tuesday the crew tied the inside rebar in the wall and in the tower footer and... (More)
Monday the crew finished moving the outside pile forms for the Tuesday pour. They also marked the conveyor and tower footers to be dug. The conveyor footers are dug, stoned and leveled in preparation for the helicoils. The tail section area between the existing... (More)
Tuesday, the outside wall forms were set in place. Wednesday was to be the first wall pour. A concrete pumper was staged to get mix to the top of the walls with the pour to start early afternoon. The morning put the finishing touches on the forms and... (More)
The week saw the dome SE floor poured & finished Monday. Tuesday the SW floor was poured & had a surprise visit from state field inspector. The inspector was happy with what he saw. He was getting familiar with project since... (More)
The dome entrance sidewall footers had rebar set and concrete poured. Legs were welded to the conveyor support in the middle of the dome and then a lot of rebar was placed around it. State approved the rebar layout on Wednesday and it was poured... (More)
Last week, the crew finished forming the dome doorway and ringwall and poured it. The center support foundation was dug, subbase for it put in and built the form for it. In between, the crew continues to tie rebar for the dome walls... (More)