Overpack Drums: Safeguarding Your Damaged, Leaking and Non-compliant Drums

As a leading cosmetics and personal care industry manufacturer, it is only natural that you need your carbon steel or stainless steel drums to be reliable. Your drums ensure that your products are well preserved, protected and compatible with its contents. However, your drums are not immune from damage, leakage or being non compliant. Reliable sellers that offer you overpack drums are at your service.

Your cosmetic and personal care industry involves a large number of products that are liquid based like,different types of shampoos, conditioners, various kinds of creams, lotions, liquid make-up etc. For, packaging and transportation they ought to be stored in manufacturing steel drums. These manufacturing steel drums include, carbon steel drums and stainless steel drums. Owning to the liquid products complex chemical composition it becomes very important that they are preserved in a high quality stainless steel or preferably carbon steel drums. These carbon steel drums are also made available in 100% phenolic and epoxy-phenolic linings. Whilst the drums you purchase are bound to be of high quality, they are not fool proof. Often as a result of mishandling or because of them getting too old they become non-compliant, damaged or start leaking. To that end, overpack drums come to your aid.

While looking for a proficient seller of these overpack drums, opt for a seller that caters to only providing drums only for businesses, as special care is taken that your business specific needs are met with. Whereby, they understand that your overpack drums are most likely to be used for:

* overpacking damaged or leaking drums

* collection and transportion of foiled sorbents

* cleaning of contaminated site

* situations that call for emergency responses

* direct and indirect containation

* transportation of perishable and hazardous solids,

* being used as a spill kit

When purchasing overpacking drums ensure you keep the following factors in mind, if the product you want to use the overpack drums contains liquid that is flammable or hazardous. The size of the drum that needs to be overpacked. A reliable seller will make sure that they inform you, the need for buying overpack drums which are larger in height and diameter. Also to be considered is you want your overpack drum to be in plastic or steel. Whereby, if corrosion resistance is a consideration, you might want to opt for stainless steel overpack, especially in 304 and 316 grade of stainless steel which offers a minimum of 1.5mm (16 gauge) thickness.

Your trusted Overpack drums supplier will sell overpack drums, which can be certified to UN (United Nations) and DOT (Department of Transportation) regulations as well. Each of the drums they sell is further tested at 1A2/X plus 15 psi hydrostatic pressure per CFR 49 for the over packing of Toxic (Poisonous) by Inhalation packaging to ensure the quality. What's more, they also carry out On-line inspection, random source inspection, they also document corrective actions stemming from non-conformance. Thus, ensuring your business gets optimum quality overpack drums.

They also make sure that they offer you enhanced customer service and assure that your overpack drums get to you safely, and so they ship, LTL Less Than Truckload, Truckloads, UPS, Federal Express and via sea containers too. Or they provide you with the facility of shipping through your preferred shipper as well. To confirm if your consignment has been shipped, they offer you the service of contacting them via phone, fax or email. So, start recovering your damaged, leaking and non complaint drums with high quality overpack steel drums.

The writer of this article is associated with Skolnik a leading USA based supplier of steel drums who also offer UN rated steel drums which are tested as per DOT and UN packaging test.