Additional Options
for Concrete Silos
Hoffmann offers our customers choices. Our design team of registered professional engineers provide proven, standard designs while offering custom, facility specific detail for deep foundations, foundations, floors, reclaim tunnels, loadouts, unloading, and drive-thrus.
Our cumulative, in-house capabilities give you, our customer, the “One Contractor Advantage”.

Foundations
Hoffmann provides comprehensive design and engineering with silo; based on soils report.
- Spread Foundations
- Ring Beams
- Mat Foundations

Deep Foundations
Hoffmann provides comprehensive design and engineering with silo; based on soils report.
- Caissons
- Building Piers
- Auger-Cast Piling
- Driven Concrete Piling
- H Piling
- Stone Columns
- Pipe Piling

Storage Floors
Hoffmann provides comprehensive design and engineering with silo; based on the material stored.
- Aeration Floors
- Elevated Storage Floors
- Conical Hoppers
- Kanal Floors
- Flat Floors

Reclaim Tunnels
Hoffmann offers below and above grade tunnels. The tunnel size is based on reclaim equipment, personnel access, and maintenance requirements.

Openings
- R & P
- Bobcat Doors
- Manways
- Ventilation
- Inspection Ports
- Fill
- Temperature Cans
- Gravity Side Drain

Truck and Rail Drive-Thru
Facility operation will determine the drive-thru requirements.
- Truck drive-thru
- Rail drive-thru

Mechanical Unloading Systems
The unloading system is determined by material stored and rate of unload.
- Belt Conveyor
- Chain Conveyor
- Screw Conveyor
- Bucket Elevator
- Air/Pneumatic

Ladders, Platforms and Staircases
Ladders, platforms, and winding staircases offer a form of egress and ease in access to equipment. Hoffmann provides custom design, fabrication, and installation. These components can be fabricated from stainless steel, aluminum, or carbon steel with a galvanized or painted finish.
- Caged Ladders
- Ladder with SAF-T-Climb
- Winding Staircases

Personnel Elevators
Personnel elevators offer ease in access for equipment maintenance.
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6001 49th Street South
Muscatine, Iowa 52761
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