Murray Equipment

By Murray Equipment|July 2, 2020

What They Needed

When considering how to continue better serving growers along the Eastern Wisconsin/Illinois border, Nutrien realized they were out of room. Closing two aging locations, they decided to invest in a new central state-of-the-art retail facility in Janesville, WI. Speed, efficiency, safety, and automation were the key factors when selecting which vendors to use for the facility. Murray Equipment stood out as the best equipment and software provider for the liquid fertilizer and chemical component of the project.

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Nutrien’s new liquid fertilizer and crop chemical building is part of a larger 12-acre location in Janesville, WI.
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The new facility features both internal and external storage tanks with room for expansion.
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With the facility’s two attended loading bays, vehicles and containers of various sizes can be filled quickly and precisely.
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Highly accurate TCS meters precisely measure both micronutrients and crop protection chemicals.
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ICS ControlPro software manages the facility with an intuitive user-friendly interface. The same software manages the 24/7 unattended loadout bay for round-the-clock customer service.
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The facility features a third 24/7 unattended bay to allow trucks to pick up product and service customers round-the-clock.
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The same ICS ControPro software that runs the facility, is used in the unattended bay control panel for seamless operation.
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Murray Equipment’s enclosed automated direct injection system dramatically reduces errors while significantly increasing employee safety.
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Small batches are accurately metered/weighed with the same ICS ControlPro software as the larger bulk deliveries.
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The centrally-located control room allows employees to run the software and keep an eye on the delivery simultaneously.
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About 46,000 gallons of herbicides are stored inside in a series of stainless steel tanks.

“I spoke with other division managers at Nutrien and they recommended MEI. I was specifically looking for a solution that would allow direct injection in a safe and efficient way,” explained Scott Pate, Nutrien Division Manager. “Murray’s ICS ControlPro software which runs the plant also has the ability to send and receive data from agronomy and back office software. That appealed to me.” Janesville is one of several MEI and Nutrien projects completed this Spring.

What We Designed

The 23,000-square-foot facility features three loadout bays – two bottom load and a 24/7 unattended loadout, a mini-bulk filling station, 2 million gallons of nitrogen, 180,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer with room to double capacity, and 46,000 gallons of bulk herbicide storage. The ICS ControlPro software operates the entire facility with one computer terminal for the attended bays, a touch screen panel for the repackaging area, and a touch screen panel for the Unattended loadout. ICS ControlPro is designed to automatically import tickets from the agronomy software, blend the batches at the direction of a few mouse clicks or touches, and then send the data back to the home office for inventory and billing.