In this video, we’ll teach you everything you need to know about our fluorinated spill pallets. Note that our training videos are mostly designed to help our distributors better understand our products but can also be helpful to users of the products, as well.
TRANSCRIPT:
Hello, and welcome to another UltraTech product training session. Today, we are talking about the Ultra-Spill Pallet Fluorinated Models. UltraTech has a number of rotationally molded spill containment pallets. The majority of them are made with polyethylene, but the fluorinated model takes it one step further. Where we use those same rotationally, molded polyethylene spill pallets, but put them through a fluorination process which enables them to be more compatible with aggressive chemicals and certain chlorinated solvents.
Here’s our chemical compatibility guide for polyethylene. You can see there’s a number of different chemicals that you can check to see if they are compatible with our standard spill pallets, a closer look shows that each chemical has a rating of A, B or C.
A is suitable for long-term storage, B is suitable for short-term storage, and C is not recommended for use with those chemicals with UltraTech spill containment products. So the rule of thumb with fluorinated spill pallets is that you can take those ratings and improve them by one letter grade. So if you look from the top of that list, carbon sulfide is at a C. That’s for standard polyethylene. With a fluorinated spill pallet, it would be a B.
Now I stress that that is a rule of thumb and that any ratings be double-checked by our engineering staff at UltraTech. So please contact us if there are any questions, if it’s not specifically called out in our compatibility guides and we will let you know for sure.
In addition to the standard polyethylene chemical compatibility. We also have one specific to the fluorinated spill pallets and spill decks. So you can look those up. You can see it’s the same type of system where we rate it as an A, B or C. It’s not as lengthy or as exhaustive of a list as the standard polyethylene, but we do have some of them listed so you won’t have to contact us. And you’ll be able to look that up for yourself.
If you look at the fluorinated spill pallets closely in this slide, the four drum is pictured, you can see that we do use the same molds as some of our other spill pallets. So the four drum fluorinated model uses the same mode as the nestable spill pallet, everything dimensionally length, width, height, containment, capacity, weight capacity is all the same as the nestable spill pallet. And the same thing applies for the two drum fluorinated model. It uses the same mold as the standard two drum spill pallet. Again, length, width, height, containment, capacity, weight capacity is all the same. We simply use a light blue resin when we make the fluorinated models instead of the yellow resin that we use for the standard model.
As far as specifications for the fluorinated model spill pallets weight capacity, the two drum holds up to 3000 pounds. The four drum holds up to 6,000 pounds. That is uniformly distributed load. And the containment capacity is 66 gallons for both the two drum and the four drum spill pallets. That number will meet the EPA regulations as well as the SPCC regulations.
I will put a link down below in the description to a video that helps to explain the EPA regulations in further detail, they are made with a hundred percent polyethylene that’s fluorinated, of course, and they can be moved with either a forklift or a pallet Jack. Keep in mind that it is two-way entry for both the two drum and the four drum models.
Applications for the fluorinated model spill pallets will, of course, be something to do with the chlorinated solvents or aggressive chemicals that they are designed to work with. It’s more than likely going to be an indoor application. And that could be in manufacturing, warehousing, chemical processing, property management, auto service, any number of industries where 55 gallon drums of chlorinated solvents or aggressive chemicals are used.
Why would you choose the fluorinated model over one of our other model spill pallets? I think that one’s pretty easy. to chemical compatibility just for use with those certain solvents or aggressive chemicals.
Why wouldn’t you use it? They are relatively expensive. The fluorination process adds considerable cost to them. So unless you have compatibility issues, you probably wouldn’t want to look at one of these.
Other products to consider if you’re looking at spill pallets in general, we have nestable model spill pallets that save a lot of space and shipping or storage.
We have very low profile spill containment in the form of spill decks. We have outdoor spill containment with hard top spill pallets. We have economical spill pallets with the economy model. And we have steel spill pallets for those applications where polyethylene is not the best choice.
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