Bins and silos are used to store materials for further processing or loading trucks, trailers, trains, etc. for shipping.  A bindicator or height measuring device controls the flow of material into the bin or silo.  The bins have a discharge system to meter the material for processing.  These unloading systems are generally screw conveyors, augers, or chain flails

Silos are manufactured from various materials such as wood, concrete and steel.  Bins and silos typically handle chips, sawdust, shavings, bark, sander dust, pulp and wood pellets.

English Terminology: bins, bin, silos, silo, unloader, screw conveyor, chain flail, flails, auger, augers, chip, chips, sawdust, bark, shavings, pellets, pellet, pulp, sawmill, planer mill, plywood plant, oriented strand board, medium density fibre board, pulp, paper, wet mill, dry mill

French Terminology: bacs, bin, silos, silo, videur, convoyeur à vis, fléau de la chaîne, les fléaux, vis, vis sans fin, puce, copeaux, sciures, écorces, copeaux, pellets, granulés, pâtes, scierie, rabotage, usine de contreplaqué, panneaux à copeaux orientés, moyen de panneaux de fibres de densité, de pâtes, papiers, mouture humide, mouture à sec

German Terminology: Kästen, Behälter, Silos, Silo, Entlader, Schnecke, Kette Dreschflegel, Dreschflegel, Schnecke, Schnecken, Chip, Hackschnitzel, Sägemehl, Rinde, Sägespäne, Pellets, Pellet-, Zellstoff-, Sägewerk, Hobelwerk, Sperrholz Pflanze, OSB, mitteldichte Faserplatte, Zellstoff, Papier, Zerkleinerer, trocken Mühle

Spanish Terminology: contenedores, bandejas, silos, silos, descarga, transportador de tornillo, mayal cadena, mayales, taladro, taladros, viruta, astillas, serrín, cortezas, virutas, pellets, pellets, pasta de papel, aserraderos, fábrica de cepillo, la planta de madera contrachapada, tableros de fibra orientada, densidad media de fibras, celulosa, papel, beneficio húmedo, beneficio seco