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New steel drum for packaging

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New Steel

New steel drum is the most common bitumen packaging due to its safety and consistent quality. Generally, new steel drum of bitumen varies dependent on different factors like bitumen volume, height, thickness and lid. In the following we will tell you more about the different types of bitumen drums, their specification and application.

New Steel Drum Classification

Drums can be classified in four different types according to their height, including long new steel drum, short new steel drum, short new steel drum-big lid, long new steel drum 200 kg.The most widely used type of drums is long new steel drum that is chosen by more than 80% of our customers. It’s necessary to say that theses steel drums vary in terms of the capacity of net weight, height and body thickness. The most common body thickness according to the standards is 0.6 mm. Each of these drums has their own specification that is better to know before purchasing your bitumen.

Advantages of Drum

  1. They don’t effect on bitumen quality both physically and chemically
  2. Proportional size and dimension
  3. It causes protection and safety of bitumen against UV rays of the sun
  4. They are easily placed in containers
  5. Suitable and safe for transporting flammable materials

Disadvantages of Drum

  1. Used drums can leak
  2. New drums, if mishandled may break as well, and damaged drums that do not break will become difficult to decant
  3. Generally, 3 -5% of bitumen is always left in the drum and is wasted

Application of Drums

Steel drums are acceptable in terms of bitumen packaging all over the world. These steel drums are used for transporting and packing different liquid and pasty materials. It’s necessary to know that due to the expansion of liquids in the heat, the drums should not be completely filled. Here we have some applications of these drums in industry as below:

  1. Bitumen
  2. Some minerals
  3. Engine oil
  4. Grease
  5. Environmental impact

Generally, the used drums will have bitumen residue that will inevitably pollute the ground and storage. Nowadays, some countries have enacted serious regulations for bitumen importation in new steel drums.

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