This site tour is oriented to all civil engineers, industrial systems engineers, automation engineers, curious locals and beer lovers.

During this presentation, the people of Proximity Malt will provide an in-depth tour of the recently build malt facility (that utilized some of the original Laural Grain Plant infrastructure), discuss the decision to use and retrofit the existing plant, explain how the local community benefits and how their multiple grain products travel all over the country.

Weather permitting, Ryan Ward of SGI will discuss some of the geotechnical challenges/solutions during construction and how different ground improvement techniques can be applied to certain situations.

About Proximity Malt

With the success of thousands of local craft breweries, distilleries, and culinary businesses throughout North America, the legacy placement of existing malting capacity—originally built to meet the midcentury needs of large, national companies– became outdated and inefficient for the new craft-driven demand. After all, what sense does it make to source your barley hundreds of miles away, to process it in huge, nameless batches and to ship it in small batches across the country or ocean to hundreds of end-users of various types and sizes?

While multinational, commercial maltsters tweaked at the edges of innovation, a challenge and opportunity arose in the malt world from the craft movement’s explosive success: How could today’s malt industry better serve the new, craft-focused end-user?

Proximity Malt partners with customers to explore malt’s flavor and functionality in new ways, with advanced technology and premium raw materials. By sourcing our grains as locally as possible, they’ve created a sustainable, cost efficient supply chain. With a team of industry veterans leading the way, Proximity Malt defines the new generation of malt supply.