How can grease help to optimize your feed mill?

Many feed mill operators are facing an unprecedented combination of challenges impacting operations. Our technical service advisors work closely with feed mill customers to overcome these challenges and have experienced firsthand how difficult the current environment is for them.

Principally, the rising costs of raw ingredients continue to have a significant effect on operations, while bringing reliability further to the forefront. Equipment failure during operations can lead to a total shut down, disrupting the feeding cycles in hatcheries or farms that the mills supply, causing further financial and reputational damage.

This can leave operators in a difficult position. It is important to find efficiencies to improve performance, and reduce costs and downtime where possible, but any solution must be trusted and reliable because the consequences of failure are so high.

Efficiencies can be gained in several ways, including through equipment, personnel and practices. One often overlooked factor is the grease used to lubricate the pellet mill bearings. In this article, we’ll consider common challenges and practices related to grease, and changes that can be made to support improved mill performance, resulting in reduced total cost of ownership.