Business & Money | Saturday 13 June, 2015 3:52 am |

Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, adviser to the king, will launch Sunday the largest project of the Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization to supply flour to the holy city.
The SR810-million facility has been built in line with international quality and safety standards and comprises warehouses, administrative blocs, housing, two mosques, a recreation hall, maintenance workshop and spare parts stores — all connected by 6 kilometers of asphalted road.

Only 18 km from Makkah, the project sprawls over 962,700 square meters, housing silos to store 250,000 metric tons of wheat in four blocks. Each block operates 16 rotating silos with a radius of 13 meters and star silos at a height of 40 meters.

It also has two towers to receive wheat from trucks and pass it through a specially designed tunnel, fitted with mechanical lifts up to the tower building that are able to handle 1,000 tons per hour. It also offers ancillary support for the project from buildings for administration, sales, technical services, and laboratories.
Its mills have a daily capacity to process 1,200 tons of wheat. It also has silos to stock humidified wheat ready for the mill and others with a capacity to store 3,600 tons of flour and 900 tons of bran.