Bulk Commodity

Bulk road salt and spreading equipment are significant investments. Wind and moisture can deteriorate the quality of stored salt and equipment – a danger that proper storage buildings can help prevent.

Salt storage buildings should not only protect your investment but also allow for greater operating efficiency.

Why a Legacy Fabric Building for Salt Storage

• Fabric is naturally non-corrosive. Unlike steel, fabric can come in direct contact with corrosive elements such as salt.
• Our steel treatment process extends the life of the building frame by providing a continuous protective barrier from corrosion and other damage. Unlike hot dipped galvanizing, which merely slows the corrosion process, EpoxxiShield™ provides a continuous protective barrier from corrosion and other damage.
• Because fabric buildings are completely customizable, you choose the length, width, and height of your building to maximize space and reduce cost. Your building will allow for ideal pile heights, and the sidewalls and peak will be high enough to maneuver tip trucks, conveyors, and other equipment.
• Fabric buildings are naturally well-lit. You may not need any artificial lighting during the day, and you'll use less lighting at night.

In addition, a custom-designed fabric building ensures adequate space for piles, equipment, operations, and pedestrians — without wasted square footage. Legacy will engineer a building around your business operations-specific tonnage requirements.

Fracking supplies energy to the world. And fracking requires at least one tool in large amounts: frac sand. Tension fabric structures are the optimal building for frac sand storage.

The building should be flexible enough to receive product via multiple modes of transportation, protect workers handling the sand, and create efficient means of load-out via truck, rail, or barge.

A custom fabric building does all this and more. Fabric structures bring these advantages to the fracking site:

• Freespan Area
• Conveyors
• Load-Out Systems
• Energy Efficiency

Dry fertilizer coats everything in fine dust – and will corrode exposed steel. Steel buildings used for fertilizer storage can succumb to the effects of corrosion in less than a few years. Even traditional wood buildings used for fertilizer storage are vulnerable to rust at the joists and fasteners. 

Structural fabric, including Legacy's Exxotec™ PVC fabric, has non-corrosive properties. Legacy also offers the ultimate in rust protection, EpoxxiShield frame finishes. EpoxxiShield-coated frames create a protective barrier, extending the life of the building frame. In addition to epoxy-coated structures, an interior liner can be added, creating a seal from the inside out – keeping fertilizer away from the steel frame and stopping corrosion before it happens. 

Large-scale fertilizer operations require an abundance of free-span or clear-span floor space – including:

• Separate bays to store various types of fertilizer before mixing,
• More heavy equipment operating room for receiving, load-out, material handling, and segregation.

Combining architectural fabric with the proven strength of a rigid steel frame allows building widths over 300 feet, along with any length.

Fabric structures for flat grain storage are less expensive and easier to install than traditional steel buildings.

A fabric structure costs less than a steel structure but still provides strength and capacity to contain large amounts of grain. Legacy fabric structures are also highly customizable in their layout and shape, and fabric structure installation exceeds that of a steel building.

Steel building construction consists of screws, creating holes and places where moisture can leak, whereas a fabric structure is weather-tight. Using a fabric building for flat grain storage is a huge benefit, as moisture and mold can ruin a grain harvest.

Legacy's fabric buildings utilize passive ventilation, helping to keep the air fresh and moisture levels reduced to aid in decreasing an environment for mold to grow. Fabric is thermally non-conductive, which helps to keep temperatures in a fabric structure more moderated than in a steel structure. Fabric structures generally stay cooler in the summer and warmer during the winter months.

At Legacy Building Solutions, our knowledgeable staff will put special emphasis on comprehending your wants and the demands of your bulk commodity building project. To fine-tune the specifications and offer you creative solutions, we will collaborate directly with you and the rest of your project team. Our goal is to give customers the best value possible for their building applications.