When it comes to chemical storage, the decisions you make today can have a profound impact on your bottom line for years — even decades — to come. While the upfront cost of a storage tank is certainly important, it's just one piece of a much larger financial picture. When calculating the true cost of a chemical storage tank, consider the cost over the useful life of the product — not merely the upfront cost.
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Navigating the regulatory landscape of chemical storage can be challenging. Terms like NSF certification, FDA approval, and FDA compliance often get used interchangeably, but they mean very different things. Understanding these distinctions is essential when selecting a chemical storage tank that meets your operational and regulatory requirements.
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Proper site preparation and safe offloading are two of the most critical steps to ensuring a long, trouble-free life for your chemical storage tank. The following best practices are distilled from Poly Processing’s Installation, Operation, and Maintenance (IOM) Manual, and they focus specifically on preparing the tank pad and safely getting the tank from the truck to its foundation.
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When storing chemicals, it isn’t enough to select a tank material that works for a while. You need to ensure that your storage solution remains safe, reliable, and cost-effective for years to come.
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Proper tank filling operations directly impact your facility's safety record, product loss rates, and operational efficiency. The right fill line system does more than simply moving chemicals from delivery trucks to storage tanks. It also minimizes spill risks, protects personnel, and can significantly reduce filling time while preventing costly product waste.
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Many industrial chemical applications use mixers to create products, keep chemicals in suspension, treat wastewater, or dilute the chemical. Polyethylene tanks are well equipped to handle that type of process, as most chemicals can be safely combined.
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Certain chemicals — such as ferric, alum, and hydrochloric acid — can be inherently higher temperature chemicals. To avert catastrophic failure of your chemical storage tank, a margin of safety is required to manage risk.
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Poly Processing manufactures a wide variety of storage tank systems that are compatible with many different chemicals, including fuming chemicals that must be securely sealed when stored. For these chemical applications, the use of a fume-tight lid is usually required. Let’s take a closer look at how a fume-tight lid functions, when a fume-tight lid might be required, and what options are available to meet your chemical storage needs.
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On January 9, 2014, a chemical spill fouled the water supply for thousands of West Virginians in the U.S. A hazardous chemical used for washing coal called 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or “crude MCHM,” leaked from an industrial facility into the Elk River near Charleston, West Virginia. The incident could have been prevented if a proper secondary containment system had been in place.
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For over five decades, Poly Processing has been at the forefront of innovation in chemical storage tank design and manufacturing. Reinforcing our commitment to advancing crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) tank technology, we are thrilled to unveil our latest update to our storage tank solutions: the 15,500-gallon IMFO tank, the 15,000-gallon Sloped Bottom IMFO tank, and the 15,500-gallon Vertical tank, are all available in specific gravities up to 2.2 design. These large innovative XLPE tanks are designed for exceptional durability, reliable performance, and an extended lifespan across a variety of applications. To enhance protection and prolong service life in oxidative environments, such as those involving sodium hypochlorite, they can be manufactured with our industry-leading OR-1000 engineered resin system, known for its remarkable resistance to oxidative chemicals. These tanks represent the best engineering and design in the tank manufacturing industry, and they are covered under PPC’s industry-leading warranty. At Poly Processing, we’re focused on delivering high-quality, forward-thinking solutions to meet the evolving demands of the chemical storage industry.
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