Choose the right Drum to transport your goods . .

A drum is a cylindrical container used for shipping bulk goods. Drums can be made of steel, dense paperboard or plastics, and are generally used for the transportation of certain dangerous materials or modest quantities of bulk goods. For caustic and acid materials, plastics, usually thermoplastics like Nylon, Polystyrene, Polyvinyl chlorides (PVCs) or possibly Polycarbonates are the preferred shipping container; for flammable substances like most petroleum distillates, and alcohol, etc., metal containers are the standard. Which type is used for shipping non-corrosive industrial chemicals would depend on the chemicals or materials, but the general rule would be to use the container type that is inert or non-reactive with the material being shipped.

Tight Head Drums & Open Top Drums:

The two common sub-types of drums are the open top and the welded top (with 2” bung holes). The later are almost universally called 'barrels' in preference to drums in the US. They cannot efficaciously either dispense or be filled with powdered goods, though they might store them very well, so are not used for such goods, being reserved for liquids transport and storage. Plastic drums are manufactured using injection blow moulding technology. Metal drums are hot rolled into long pipe-like sections then Forged on a Stamping Press while still red hot into drum bodies. A welded rolled seam, is then made for the drum bottom, or bottom and top both.

Limes Offers Plastic & Steel Open / Tight Head Drums, Conical & cylindrical Drums,  ...

  
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