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Link to Port Inland Plant
Gulliver, MI

The Port Inland plant is the newest of the Western Lime Corporation’s three plants. It is situated 20 miles Southeast of Manistique and primarily serves the paper, steel and mining industries in the upper Midwest and Canada.

Western Lime has been producing dolomitic quicklime at its Eden, Wisconsin plant since 1847. It began utilizing ship-delivered high calcium limestone in 1921 at its Green Bay plant. The opportunity arose to construct a plant on-site at a large Great Lakes quarry. Construction began during the fall of 2005 and this new plant was commissioned in May of 2007.

The Port Inland plant is one of the newest greenfield lime plants in North America. It is staffed by 25 employees. Western Lime is very proud of the fact that these people, new to the lime industry, have gone through plant commissioning and a full year of operation with no MSHA reportable injuries.

Port Inland Plant Quick Facts:

• 300,000 TPY lime production
• Engineering & Project Management by Ferenco
• Control systems by Universal Dynamics
• 280,000 ton capacity stone pile fed by tripper conveyor
• Stone reclaim via 13 vibrating feeders
• Preheater, 12-bay polygon (Metso)
• Kiln, 15’ X 200’ (A-C Equipment Services)
• Kiln dust collection, 6 module pulse-jet baghouse
• Fuel system, direct fired, Raymond 573 mill
• Kiln run silo, 2400 ton capacity
• Product silos, three 300 ton capacity
• All product shipped by rail & truck

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The Carmeuse Lime and Stone Port Inland Operation is located on Lake Michigan 7 miles East of Gulliver in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Port Inland began operation in 1930 to provide flux stone to the Inland Steel operation in Indiana. Today Port Inland provides 6,000,000 tons of high calcium and dolomitic limestone to metallurgical, chemical and construction markets throughout the Great Lakes. Port Inland ships over 95% of sales by 20,000 – 30,000 ton ore boats from the Port Inland harbor and dock facility. Port Inland has 80 direct employees and 20 contracted employees, and is managed with self-directed work teams. Port Inland is an ISO 9001:2000 certified operation.

• 6,500,000 TPY Limestone and Dolomite Crushing and Screening Operations
• Harbor on Lake Michigan capable of docking 767’ class ore boats
• 3,000 TPH product blending and vessel loading facility
• Rail haulage from quarries to the primary crusher
• 300,000 ton product stockpiles