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When it comes to grain cleaning, getting a high-quality end product means grain handlers often must pay a premium price. However, for the past 32 years, Magik Kleener Sales, Inc. has been providing an inexpensive alternative to the high cost of grain cleaning.
What makes Magik Kleener so unique in the industry is that its cleaning equipment does the job efficiently with virtually no operating expenses. Thanks to its unique zig-zag design, which consists of multiple reversing sections that create the necessary agitation needed for efficient cleaning without and outside power requirement, as well as minimal installation requirements, Magik Kleener makes it easy to clean material that flows in a downward direction.
Grain Journal recently caught up with Magik Kleener President Mick Schmidt to learn about how the company started, as well as what has helped it grow throughout the years and contribute to its success.
The history of Magik Kleener dates back to 1985, when Schmidt began investigating some small grain cleaners manufactured by a company that had gone out of business.
“I was in the construction business for 40 years and also in the millwright business,” he says. “I thought we needed something different for a cleaner. This product appeared to be dead, so in 1985-86, while I was still in the construction business, I purchased the rights and revived the product. We sold it for a couple of years through the construction company.”
Schmidt’s construction business became affiliated with Butler Mfg. in 1986, an arrangement that continued until Butler was bought out by Brock in the 1990s. In the meantime, Schmidt and his partners formally started Magik Kleener in 1987-88.
“We’ve traveled from Florida to Vancouver, BC and from Phoenix, AZ to Toronto, ON and everywhere in between from Mexico to Canada,” he recounts. “So we’ve been pretty much all over North America promoting Magik Kleeners.”
In its early days, Magik Kleener offered relatively small gravity grain cleaning units from 700 bph to approximately 10,000 bph capacity. Then, as grain facilities started getting bigger, the company started building larger cleaners.
“We found out with the first units we built that they needed to be heavier, because they were being used harder than we expected,” Schmidt notes.
Magik Kleener ramped up its cleaners to clean at 20,000 bph and stayed at that level for a short time. Next, the company added even larger cleaners that could clean up to 60,000 bph. Today, Magik Kleener can manufacture cleaners with capacities up to 100,000 bph, though Schmidt says the company has yet to receive an order for anything that large.
“I think we offer the biggest number of units and sizes than probably anybody in the United States,” he says.
The company offers two models of cleaners:
Reprinted from GRAIN JOURNAL March/April 2017 Issue
