THE LARGEST MALTING PLANT IN THE WORLD.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 715, 19 November 1903, Page 24

THE LARGEST MALTING PLANT IN THE WORLD.

What is claimed to be the above is now being erected by Albert Schwill and Company north of their present factory at South Chicago. It consists of a malthouse building 145 feet wide and 277 feet, long, the compartment building being three storeys high and the attemperator and kiln building five storeys. The malting capacity will be 2,500,000 bushels per annum, and will increase the firm’s total output to over 4,000,000 bushels per annum. The construction of the barley and malt elevator, which will have a capacity of 1,200,000 bushels, is an entirely novel one, the storage part consisting of 24 tile tanks, 25 feet in diameter, and 100 feet high, three abreast, forming fourteen intermediate bins. The walls of these tanks are 6-inch hollow tiles laid hori-zontally,'.-in which, every 15 inches, in alternate layers, heavy steel bands are embedded in cement encircling the whole tank. The outside of the tank is further protected by a 2-inch hollow tile, so that there is an 8-inch wall, with three airspaces between the grain arid the atmosphere, giving perfect insulation. The hoppers in these tanks are made of cinders, covered with a 6-inch layer of cement, in which heavy wire netting is embedded. r I he working home of the elevator is 45 feet deep, 72 feet wide and 155 feet high, and will be constructed of steel, with concrete floors and an outside covering of brick and tile.