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A 5 Minute Overview of Chemical Storage Tanks

If you’re new to the chemical tank storage world, it’s likely that you have a lot of questions. Which type of tank is best? What materials are available? What materials are best equipped to handle the chemical you need to store? It’s helpful to know what is standard in the marketplace, the best options for your chemical, and what enhancements might be available to make your chemical storage selection easier.

Topics: Tank Design and Materials

Why Your XLPE Tank Needs An Antioxidant Interior

OR-1000™ is Poly Processing’s innovative system designed to offer a longer lasting solution to applications which require the storage of chemicals that have aggressive oxidation properties. As an option in your chemical storage tank package, it has a number of other benefits that can add longevity to the tank, help the system meet FDA requirements, save water, manpower, and more.

Topics: Tank Design and Materials

Guidelines and Checklist for Proper Tank Design

Proper tank design is crucial to successful safe chemical storage. With over 40 years in the chemical storage industry, we not only offer the tank materials and technologies you need, we also offer the advice that is integral to choosing the right tank, tank materials, fittings and accessories that will properly serve your application.

Topics: Value Added, Tank Design and Materials

Why Plastic Water Tanks Won’t Work For Chemical Storage

Storing chemicals and storing water are two very different propositions. While you may save some money up front by using a water tank to store chemicals, in the long run this decision may end up costing you more than you think. There are a few critical reasons why you shouldn’t use water tanks for chemical storage.

Topics: Certifications and Standards, Fittings and Accessories, Tank Design and Materials

Polyethylene Horizontal Storage Tanks: An Industry Perspective

While most of the storage tanks that we sell are vertical tanks, we do offer several other options to customers. Vertical tanks simply are not the best solution for every circumstance. Let’s look into the three main reasons polyethylene horizontal tanks are a key part of a storage solution and then expand on the use of these tanks in their most popular industry: agriculture.

Topics: Applications, Tank Design and Materials

SAFE-Tank® Poly Tanks: Chemical Storage Safety Innovations

When damage to equipment or property, loss of chemicals stored, and injury to employees from spills or exposure to toxic chemicals is a concern in your operation, the SAFE-Tank® polyethylene tank system is an ideal chemical storage solution. SAFE-Tank® provides a “tank within a tank” chemical storage system to safely store chemicals and prevent damage and injury from chemical exposure without the need for an additional containment unit.

Topics: Tank Design and Materials