Skyway Grain Systems Inc products

The Sukup stiffened farm bin is an economical grain storage alternative. Adding outside stiffeners or uprights to the side wall of the bin allows the use of lighter gauge sidewall sheets compared to an unstiffened bin, resulting in a storage bin with slightly less pounds of steel when compared to the same size of bin in the unstiffened version – less pounds of steel means more economical. Your first thought might be that less pounds of steel results in less strength but that is not the case, the biggest load a bin faces is when it is unloaded, the drag on the side wall as the grain is drawn out of the bin is the largest load our engineers have to deal with, the stiffeners/uprights actually handle this load better than a wall sheet does on an unstiffened bin (that is why the wall sheets on a unstiffened bin must be thicker than the wall sheets on a stiffened bin).

Every part of Sukup unstiffened bins starts out as blank sheet of steel that is used to create a top-quality finished product that you can be proud of. Sukup storage bins go together fast and stand up strong because of the precise manufacturing of the sidewall sheets. The advanced roll forming equipment and fixtures ensure close tolerances and high quality for the best fitting bin. The precision-engineered, 4″ wide corrugated high-strength, galvanized steel sidewall sheets of the unstiffened bin, provides better vertical load carrying capacity and also create less resistance and friction to allow grain to flow more easily.