Servico was formed in 1973 with a merger of two small ginning operations. In 1974-1981, two additional gins were purchased. Servico gin was built in 1982, consolidating the production of the other three plants.

 For three months a year, it runs seven days a week, 24 hours a day. There’s a tremendous amount of wear on the equipment. As soon as we finish ginning, we begin dismantling the gin and rebuilding it. It takes six months of the 40-hour weeks to get it ready for the next year. 2021 was an exciting year at Servico as we got new ginning equipment and merged into the technology with better software to provide the best data to our growers. We’ve ginned a lot of cotton on the gin… many, many bales. Our customers locations range from Mississippi to Tennessee and all of North Alabama.

	The gin includes a shop that takes care of maintenance and repair on all motorized and rolling equipment. This includes trucks, pickups, tractors, forklifts, tenders that receive periodic maintenance.

	We operate the Easiflo plant the process that takes raw cottonseed, which is a by product of the ginning process, and converts it from a very labor-intensive product to handle, to a flowable product similar to wheat or corn. This, in effect, increases the market value of the cottonseed.

	Our job is to do what we can to preserve the quality of the fiber in a process that starts by bringing modules from the fields and storing them on asphalt pads. Our process cannot improve the condition of the raw product that we receive, but we can minimize the damage to the fiber and optimize grower returns by careful management of the process. We have storage capacity for modules or bales of cotton. The large yard allows us to get the cotton out of harms way due to flooding of fields, etc.

	GIN: The process of ginning is mainly composed of cleaning equipment. The ginning system is monitored through the ginning process to provide the grower with the highest valued product possible.

	The warehouses were built with a storage capacity of 70,000 bales.

“Servico tries hard to be pro-active, not a re-active company.”

	It’s an ongoing, evolutionary process.

Thousand of acres of green cotton plants grow in the red soil, just as they have for decades in Cotton Country. Looking up at the sky always with we could use a little sunshine or maybe its more rain. Farmers always battled the weather. Can you imagine in the 1950s-1960 planting cotton with mules and laborers hand picking the white bolls? Then to the current day being mechanized with cotton picking machines doing the work in a day that would have taken weeks.

Servico continues to spare no cost in upgrading its systems and adding services for the benefit of its grower customers and owners.

“Servico strives to be the most automated and technologically advanced cotton ginning operation in the world.”

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1615 County Rd 389 Courtland, AL 35618

256-637-6565