Case Study: Gavilon Grain achieves rapid 110-car train loading and streamlined weighing with Cultura Technologies' oneWeigh system

Gavilon Grain - Customer Case Study

Gavilon Grain, LLC built a new rail-loading terminal near Chester, MT to tap the Hi-Line’s high-quality wheat for export and to solve capacity and efficiency constraints on truck intake and shuttle train loading. The company needed a high-throughput, automated facility that could reliably handle large volumes, speed truck and rail turns, and protect workers during loading operations.

Gavilon answered with a 1-million-bushel slipform concrete elevator (plus outdoor pile capacity), an 8,190-foot loop track, and integrated high-capacity equipment — 38,000-bph legs and conveyors, a 90,000-bph bulk weigh loadout scale, Cultura Technologies oneWeigh automation for truck and rail, Fairbanks scales, sampling probes, and fall-protection systems — built with experienced partners. The facility went online January 2012 and now loads 110-car trains in under six hours, streamlines truck flows with automated ticketing, and boosts export supply to Gavilon’s terminal network while improving safety and operational efficiency.

Gavilon Grain

Monte Fauque

Location Manager