Pictures left show (top to bottom): 1. The weighbridges and gantry at Gladstone dock
2. A tanker newly arrived on site ready to be weighed prior to loading
3. The driver is able to discharge the molasses blend into his vehicle from a safe working platform.
capacity west coast terminals at Gladstone and Portbury and its storage facilities at Dagenham and Hull, the company can draw material out of Grangemouth on the east coast of Scotland. Although the company began its life all those years ago in Hull, today no supply of molasses for animal feed comes out of the port there. With the overall decline in volumes used in feed, the rationalisation in the feed industry and the concentration of ruminants in the west, it just makes more sense to keep Liverpool busy with supplying feed customers. Molasses are still brought in and stored at Hull, but only for industrial customers. There has been considerable change in the transport fleet over
the years as well. When Simon joined the company, it was all own transport, since when there have been a number of different solutions tried. Now, however, it is contracted out to specialist haulier A&F Grant Ltd of Banffshire, Scotland, an arrangement which works very well for UM – they understand our business, says Simon. So, we’ve covered sugar cubes, the Titanic and even the War
on Terror – where does the Beast from the East fit in? Well, one use of molasses which I haven’t yet explained is its inclusion into grit for spreading on the roads for de-icing purposes. Not only does the molasses make the salt stick to the road surface, it also ties up some of the oxygen, helping to prevent rust of road furniture, the spreaders and all of our cars and lorries. With last winter’s blast of cold weather originating from the part of the world where the football World Cup is currently being contested, councils have exhausted their supplies of road salt and need to restock before the onset of next winter, which means added demand for molasses. Sweet!
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