US grain storage, transportation and processing company Bartlett has opened its new soyabean processing plant in Kansas, USA, World Grain wrote.
The facility in Cherryvale will handle up to 49M bushels/year of soyabeans, providing feedstocks for refined vegetable oil, animal feed and renewable transportation fuels, according to the 20 September report.
“Our new Cherryvale plant will expand markets for area soyabean producers and agribusinesses while driving economic growth in Southeast Kansas,” Bob Knief, president of Bartlett president Bob Knief was quoted as saying at the opening of the facility on 19 September.
Bartlett’s Cherryvale site comprises a processing plant, product tank farm, grain elevators and a multi-loop track system.
The South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad, owned and operated by WATCO, provides rail services for the facility, connecting the plant to a network of Class I carriers. The plant’s location also provides easy access to highways 160, 166, 169 and 400, according to the report.
Bartlett would be using sustainability solutions provider Regrow Ag’s Agriculture Resilience Platform at the facility to analyse Scope 3 emissions, the report said.
The platform will also provide insights into current regenerative practice adoption to assist Bartlett in designing programmes to support more sustainable farming practices, according to the report.
Established in 1907, Bartlett joined the Savage family of companies in 2018. It is focused on the acquisition, storage, transportation, processing and merchandising of grain and is a leading US exporter of grain to Mexico.
Bartlett produces a range of flour and its soyabean processing facility serves the food and renewable fuel sector.
