Everything But The Weed

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Because of the routine down time and high costs familiar to operators who use conventional coil handling and coil storage systems, many businesses are searching for more efficient systems that reduce the occurrence of inner- and outer-wrap damage.  “Green” coil storage systems have been found to be not only more efficient but also more sustainable – they are not only produced of recycled materials, but they are also recyclable themselves.

Conventional manners of coil storage necessitate the use of wood, a convention that most industrial professionals consider to be a waste of natural resources.  Moreover, because of wood’s habitual absorption of oil from steel coils, this design can result in extravagant hazardous-material disposal costs.  Wood coil storage systems are also difficult to take care of, and if parts are not appropriately designed, installed, or maintained, serious safety issues can result. Certainly, the utilization of wood in coil storage systems is just a short-term solution that involves very high lifecycle costs for coil storage operators.

Recently, coil storage operators have found release from hazardous wood coil storage systems in “greener” polymeric coil storage systems.  These schemes, which when manufactured with properly sized pieces provide for safer and more efficient coil storage solutions, are manufactured in a variety of polymeric compounds based on the physical traits and lifecycle desired by particular coil storage operators.  One Dutch company has invented a system that can tolerate up to 100 tons and accommodate three-high stacking without the need for chains!  The material used in this scheme has been applied to the new RollStop coil storage system, which employs an easy-to-install design with four simple pieces.

The most noteworthy advantage to polymeric coil storage systems like the RollStop system is that they are composed of recycled materials. Furthermore, because these coil storage systems are intended to have 30-year lives, the substance used to compose them – material that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled – is taken out of the waste disposal and recycling system for a long period of time, thereby saving the time, energy, and costs associated with the lengthy recycling process.

Because polymeric coil storage systems feature benefits such as improved safety, simple installation and maintenance, and rugged, polymeric components that do not split, break, or absorb oil, these systems noticeably outperform their traditional wood counterparts.