Lowell Michigan King Milling Plans 2011 Expansion
If you have ever been to Lowell Michigan, you can’t miss
the King Milling Company. It dominates the small town skyline with
its huge grain storage towers and milling processing equipment.
Well, that is about to change in a big way. The King Milling Company
is undergoing an expansion which will double their capacity to store
grain and flour. The expansion will be literally going up soon, as
a 90 foot building will be erected, six multistory concrete storage
towers and a new load out machinery will be part of the 11+ million
dollar expansion to this savvy survivor of the grain milling business
in Michigan.
The King Milling Company’s website states that they started
business in 1890, along with 700 other flour mills in Michigan.
In 1958 the number of mills in state was 28, today there are
13 left, of which some are very small operations.
From its humble beginnings with a stone wheel to the
prodigious production of today – King Milling grinds 800,000
pounds of white flour/day. It is pretty safe to say, if you eat
a flour product in West Michigan, it was processed at the King
Milling Company. Another West Michigan company that you
probably never heard of, but is pretty important to our local
economy.
The size and perspective of these storage silos is very
hard to appreciate unless you see them up close.
King Milling, another West Michigan company that you probably never
knew existed but is pretty important to our local economy.
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