Renovation of Food-Grade Evaporation Salt Plant

AIG Food Ingredients, Installation, Mining and Minerals, Project Management

  Customer: North American Mineral Producer General Contractor: Galyon Brothers Construction Structural Engineer: Engineering Consultants Installed Cost: $2 million , This $2-million capital project renovated the century-old vacuum building of the plant’s vacuum pan evaporation process. The AIG team was responsible for several phases of the project: Structural engineering design of shoring to support wooden structure during demolition. Mechanical engineering …

Research Greenhouse Design & Project Management

AIG Automation, Detailed Design, Non-Industrial, Project Development, Project Management

Photo courtesy of The Land Institute. Customer: The Land Institute | Salina, KS General Contractor: Galyon Brothers Construction Architect: Nolte Associates The Land Institute is a non-profit organization focused on sustainable agriculture in the Great Plains. To support their research into perennial grain and seed crops, they envisioned a state-of-the-art, automated greenhouse. AIG assembled a design team that included the …

Salt Mine Head Frame

AIG Mining and Minerals, Project Management

Independent Salt Co. | Kanopolis, Kansas When the decades-old wooden head frame structure was nearing the stage of a catastrophic failure, Independent Salt contracted with AIG to replace it with a new steel structure. The head frame supports the large sheave wheels (pulleys) that haul up skips loaded with salt from the bottom of the mine. The steel structure was …