The company’s vast experience is constantly being put to use in developing new solutions which meet the demands of authorities and users for functionality, quality and environment friendly operation. The delivered solutions have been developed on the basis of core technologies such as belt conveyors, screw conveyors, bucket elevators, chain conveyors, loading chutes etc. Through the years Cimbria has developed a solid co-operation with the Ukrainian company Nibulon. During the last two decades, Nibulon has gradually expanded the geography and volume of its production activities and with 34 branches located in ten regions in the Ukraine, Nibulon is now one of the largest national producers and exporters of agricultural products. The cooperation started back in 2003 with the delivery of a large order for conveying equipment such as chain conveyors and bucket elevator etc, for installation in a 100,000-tonne grain terminal in Nikolaev, Ukraine. Since that time, Cimbria has delivered conveying equipment to Nibulon every year, both to the terminal in Nikolaev and to other sites throughout the Ukraine. Furthermore, yet another complete line of Cimbria’s conveying equipment was installed at Nibolon’s “Smotrych” branch in 2008. The quality of the equipment delivered has been tested, not only by the effects of time, but also by its quantitative rates. Since 2003 Cimbria grain handling equipment has thus loaded vessels with more than 10 million tonnes of grain. This proves that Cimbria equipment is ideal for heavy-duty industrial operation. The cooperation between Cimbria and the Ukrainian company “Nibulon” increased considerably in 2010, which has a major influence both on previous and future projects. First of all, there was a substantial extension to a previously signed contract in 2009 that included the construction of 7 new silo complexes. In 2010, even before their construction was complete, it was decided to expand these plants and to build one more plant. The total storage capacity of these facilities amounts to 0.5 million tonnes. The length of chain conveyors delivered to each plant is 555m, belt conveyors make up 280m, and the height of the elevators (if added together) at each plant amounts to 411m, which is 111m higher than the Eifel Tower in Paris. By the middle of 2010 the construction of the seven plants was complete and the plants are now in operation. These plants were constructed under stage 1 of the “Nibulon” investment project concerning the revival of navigation along the rivers of Ukraine. Cimbria is actively participating in this project by supporting financing insured by EKF. The project covers the construction of 57 non-self-propelled and self-propelled vessels (24 have already been built), 14 sea and river tugs (3 have been built), 16 storage plants, of which 10 are grain terminals along the Dnipro and Southern Bug rivers. Logistics will involve barges to be filled with grain and transported along the Dnipro, the Southern Bug and other rivers to the port terminal in Nikolayev on the Black Sea coast and unloaded into the large facility there. The final stage of the process involves discharging the grain into large ships for transportation to export markets, primarily through the Bosporus Strait to the Middle East. Due to its importance, the project has acquired the status of a national project in Ukraine. The next step in the high level cooperation between Cimbria and Nibulon was the signing of a new contract on 30th July 2010. The new contract was signed for 8 new 75,000-tonne grain storage facilities and on this occasion the scope of Cimbria’s supply covered intake conveying equipment with a capacity of 250tph and loading conveying equipment with capacities of 500tph. Moreover, the agreement included huge maize dryers with a total capacity of 200tph at each of the eight sites. The dryers are double column dryers with 5 zones, type DMG 26. It is a great opportunity for Cimbria to show its revolutionary technological solutions, and the first dryer of this nature in Ukraine will be installed at the facility in Nova Odessa town. According to the contract, delivery was due to commence in October 2010 and will be completed during the course of 2011. The long-term cooperation between Cimbria and Nibulon is also based on the same principles of environmental safety. Cimbria’s aim of achieving maximum machine utilisation with minimum environmental strain matches Nibulon’s principle of preserving the unique nature of the region.