Lowell Michigan King Milling Plans 2011 Expansion

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.

King Milling Lowell skyline

 

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.

King Milling storage silos

 

 

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. 

 

1850 flour grinding Millstone

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.

King Milling storage silos

 

The size and perspective of these storage silos is very

hard to appreciate unless you see them up close.

 

King Milling sign

 

King Milling, another West Michigan company that you probably never

knew existed but is pretty important to our local economy.

 

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