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Lamma
17th & 18th Jan 2024

Cereals
11th & 12th Jun 2024

Midland Machinery Show
8th & 9th Nov 2023


Confidence in our design,
materials and care in
manufacturing and installation
is reflected in our
10-year warranty.


FLR Crop Drying is a brand
of Flach & Le-Roy Ltd

About Us

Flach & Le-Roy Ltd is an industry leader in designing and delivering high performance drying, ventilation & storage systems for crops & woodchip. Formed in 1993 its high quality product and design services include drive-on drying floors, air ducts, walling, fans, burners and associated control equipment delivered throughout the UK and overseas.
 

Products
 
A Flach & Le-Roy 4000 ton grain store with twin side air ducts, a drive-on drying floor and 8 x 27kw axial fans
 
A Flach & Le-Roy 2000 ton store A Flach & Le-Roy 2000 ton store with a central main air duct providing two flexible loading and storage areas
   
Woodchip drive on drying floor driven by a 25hp centrifugal fan supporting a 200kw boiler drying G50/G30 woodchip from 40% to 25% moisture content.   Onion or potato box store ventilation and conditioning air ducts. Fans can be mounted at the side or vertically on top of the duct.
 
Timber clad store retaining-walling. Designed to be self-shedding for level or surcharge fill.   Centrifugal and axial-flow fans, from low-pressure axial for drying vegetables to high pressure centrifugal and multi-stage axial fans for drying cereals and seed crops
 
Control panels can be supplied with a wide range of safety and functional controls all protected by modern circuit breaker technology      
 

Flach & Le-Roy Ltd - Crop/Woodchip Drying Systems
 
Founded in 1993 by Richard Flach and Owen Le-Roy, together the partners have over 50 years experience in the crop drying and storage business. Their speciality is high quality drive-on flooring and box-store ventilation and conditioning systems. Based on the near-ambient drying method Flach & Le-Roy's drive-on floor drying system is fully automated, having fans and burners controlled via humidity sensors in the air duct and fan house. The drying rate for cereals is up to half a percent every 24 hours and the fans deliver air through the crop at between 20 and 24 feet per minute depending on stack height. Offloading the grain trailer into the store is time and labour saving and the crop needs no stirring. More recent application of the drying-floor system is the preparation of woodchip for biomass heating systems. Our system typically supports a 200Kw boiler drying 40 tonnes of woodchip at 1.5m deep from 40% to 25% moisture content over 2 to 3 days.
 
Our box store design is focused on getting the most efficient airflow across and through a fully loaded bay. We periodically check airflow performance on sample stores to ensure that the systems are performing as expected and that our clients' storage technique is as efficient as possible.
 

Premium quality design, materials and workmanship

Flach & Le-Roy has built its client base through careful application of simple yet effective design of its drying, conditioning and storage systems and use of premium quality materials and workmanship. Providing existing and new clients with sound, practical advice is key to building trust and long-term relationships and we work hard to ensure that our systems enhance our clients' businesses.

Many of our clients are new to us and new to drive-on drying floors and the modern day control technology that supports our systems. Our aim is to make the store operation as trouble free and as energy efficient as possible - in some cases this involves coaching for a short period of time until clients are confident that their drying strategy is optimized.

We expect our stores to perform at their maximum efficiency for many years - after 20 years in the business our early stores are going strong with little evidence of excessive wear. Our philosophy is to "do it right first time" and this means implementing the right design, with first class materials and workmanship. Often this strategy incurs an initial price premium but our view is that it is cheaper in the long run to install a robust, reliable system that remains effective and efficient through its long life.
 

High performance and control
To compliment our high quality in-house manufactured products we supply top of the range fans, burners and control panels. With our trusted suppliers, we have developed ever more efficient and reliable ventilation systems to ensure safe, trouble-free operation along with efficient and economical use of energy.
 
Multi-stage axial flow fans fitted with fixed gas
burners - control is via the fully automated control
panel below.
 

Centrifugal fans give good performance in smaller stores and where noise might be an issue close to urban dwellings.
 
Control is via the fully automated control panel.