GreenPoint Ag on May 9 announced the grand opening of a new state-of-the-art fertilizer warehouse in Roanoke, La. With roughly 20,000 square feet under roof, the $3.2 million warehouse has the capacity to hold 4,500 tons of crop nutrient products, including nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, and sulfate ingredients.
Greenpoint said the facility is equipped with a state-of-the-art blending system rated to blend roughly 240 tons per hour, capable of loading a 25-ton tender in less than eight minutes. The warehouse also features an inbound conveyor system that can unload straight products into one of seven available bays in seven minutes or less.
Greenpoint said 22,000 tons of fertilizer is expected to move through the site annually, servicing approximately 100,000 acres across eight Louisiana parishes where the main crops are rice, sugar cane, crawfish, soybeans, and grass pastures.
Headquartered in Decatur, Ala., GreenPoint operates more than 100 retail and wholesale locations across Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas, generating more than $1.8 billion in annual sales.