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SiloMD™ Silo Cleaning

Buildup and bridging inside cement, ready mix, and asphalt silos steal storage capacity and choke material flow. SiloMD cleans silos with confined-space certified technicians under a written permit program, restoring flow while your plant keeps running.

Since 1999Nationwide dispatchFully insured
Scheduled & Reliable

Cleaning timed to receiving and loadout windows.

Confined Space Trained

Crews hold confined space training on every job.

Trained Technicians

Specialized crews with silo-specific equipment.

Capacity Restored

Live storage and discharge flow return to design.

Nationwide Service

SiloMD crews dispatch to 49 states.

Documented Visits

Condition records per silo close every visit.

SiloMD Field Guide

Eight buildup patterns. One fix.

Funneling, ratholing, doming, bridging, and caking steal live storage. The animation shows each pattern and the properly maintained silo they all become.

SiloMD restores silo capacity with certified confined-space crews under a written permit program.

SiloMD Bid Request

Build your bid packet in six steps

The more your packet tells us, the sharper the bid. Every answer below changes the crew, the equipment, and the number we bring. About three minutes, and skipping is allowed.

SiloMD™ Project Bid Builder

Step 1: pick your vessel. Rail cars count; they are their own service.

VesselProblemStructureMaterialScheduleYour Bid

What are we cleaning?

Vessel type decides the crew and the rig. Rail cars run as a separate SiloMD service with their own dispatch.

Round Silo
Square Bin
Rectangular Bunker
Divided / Silo in Silo
Storage Dome
Rail Car

What is the material doing?

Pick the picture that looks like your problem. Each pattern calls for different tooling, and naming it now saves a site visit later.

Funneling
Ratholing
Plugging
Doming
Bridging
Caking
Wall Buildup / Scale
Not Sure

The structure itself

Nothing here is required, and Not Sure is always an answer. Every section you can fill sharpens the crew plan, the equipment list, and the number.

Constructionaffects anchoring & tooling
Material Storedpick all that apply
Bottom Configurationsets discharge strategy
Roof Accesscheck everything that exists
Entry Accesscheck all that apply
⚙️Internal Equipmentcheck everything inside
Dimensionsbest guesses welcome
Current Conditionhow full is it
Utilities Availablecheck all that apply
Safety Informationshapes permits & PPE
Equipment Restrictionscheck all that apply
Notesanything the crew should know
Structure detail0 of 12 sections

The material

Cement behaves one way, burnt asphalt another. Condition drives tooling, PPE, and how the permit gets written.

Condition (pick all that apply)

Logistics and timing

Last details. Crews stage a truck-mounted compressor near the vessel base, so distance matters more than you would think.

Where do we send the bid?

A SiloMD project manager reviews your packet and responds within one business day.

Your packet is ready.
Step 1 of 6
What's Included

Everything this program covers

How It Works

Our process

Simple, documented, and repeatable at every plant you run.

1

Silo Evaluation

We assess buildup, bridging, and flow issues .

2

Certified Cleaning

SiloMD removes buildup with confined-space certified crews while your plant keeps running.

3

Flow Restoration

Capacity comes back and material flows clean and consistent.

4

Inspection & Support

We document condition and support repairs before they become failures.

Plant mixer paddles and shafts chipped back to clean steel after hardened buildup removal
Plant equipment returned to clean steel. SiloMD holds your silos to the same standard, with certified crews and documented entry procedures.
Separate Service Line

Rail Car Cleaning

Hopper cars cake and bridge the same way silos do, and a car that will not discharge is freight you already paid for sitting dead on a siding. SiloMD crews clean covered hoppers and specialty cars as a dedicated service with its own dispatch.

Same certified confined-space entry program, same documentation, scheduled around your switching windows.

Start a Rail Car Bid
Questions

Common questions

Yes. Silo cleaning is confined-space work, and our SiloMD crews are trained and certified for it. Every entry runs under our permit program: atmospheric testing, a trained attendant, and a written rescue plan, while the cleaning restores capacity and material flow.

Buildup is payload you paid for and cannot sell. It reduces how many yards each truck can legally haul, adds dead weight that wears drums, suspensions, and drivelines faster, and hides fin damage that hurts mix quality. Left alone, it compounds into downtime.

We dispatch crews nationwide from eight strategic hubs in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas (Dallas and Houston), Georgia, and Florida. We serve ready mix, cement, and asphalt producers in 49 states.

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Cement, ready mix, and asphalt silo cleaning that restores live capacity

Cement and other bulk powders compact, bridge, and rathole inside a silo, especially in humid regions where moisture turns fine material into clumps and clogs. The silo still reads full, but the live capacity you can actually discharge keeps shrinking, flow slows, and batch weights drift. Professional silo cleaning removes buildup from the walls and cone and restores full storage flow.

Silo unclogging and buildup removal

SiloMD crews clear bridged material, wall buildup, and blocked cones on cement silos, ready mix plant silos, and asphalt silos. Clogged silos slow every load out of the plant; a cleaned silo discharges at full rate and keeps batching accurate.

Certified entry program

SiloMD entries are performed by confined-space certified technicians under a written permit program. That discipline controls the largest safety exposure in silo work and keeps your plant clear of confined-space entry permits, rescue standby requirements, and the risk that comes with putting a person under compacted material.

Scheduled silo maintenance

Like drum chipping, silo cleaning works best on a schedule tuned to your throughput and climate. High-humidity markets in the Southeast typically need tighter cycles than dry Western plants. We track service history per silo so your cadence is based on data, not guesswork.

Purpose-built equipment for cement silos

SiloMD crews clean welded silos holding up to 10,000 tons and modular bolted silos from 500 to 5,000 tons, using rotary cleaning heads, vacuum systems, acoustic cleaners, industrial vibrators, and high-efficiency dust collection. Work runs in the evening during off hours so your plant batches at full rate the next morning. We track three KPIs per silo: storage utilization rate, material flow efficiency, and product quality index, so your cleaning cadence is set by data.

Silo cleaning dispatches nationwide alongside ready mix drum chipping, so one scheduled visit can cover trucks, central mixers, and silos at the same plant. Serving ready mix, cement, and asphalt producers in 49 states. Send a service request and a specialist responds within one business day.

Put your fleet on the SiloMD schedule

Send your fleet details and a specialist responds within one business day.

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