Avoid corrosion on chemical drums
- Nov 8, 2022
When transporting chemical drums, strict safety precautions are taken to ensure that the environment is not damaged. But the barrels themselves should also be protected from damage. Read here how a manufacturer of chemical products with worldwide shipping effectively prevents moisture damage during container transports.
Protect food transports against moisture
- Oct 11, 2022
Germany has occupied one of the top positions in world agricultural trade for many years. In 2020, it was enough for third place in exports (behind the Netherlands and the USA)*, whereby the most important third-country markets, apart from Switzerland, were above all China and the USA**. When food is transported by container for weeks, there is regularly a great risk of moisture damage caused by condensation. Read here how a food manufacturer with worldwide shipping protects its goods from this on the way to their country of destination.
* Quelle: UN Comtrade
** Quelle: Statistisches Bundesamt
Protect car transports against moisture
- Sep 6, 2022
Whether cars are shipped to their destination by container or on a RoRo ship, moisture damage caused by condensation is likely to lead to complaints from the recipient. Read here, how a car manufacturer with worldwide shipping protects its vehicles during the weeks-long transport overseas by container from musty smells and corrosion.
Protect e-commerce returns from moisture in the interim storage facility
- Jun 7, 2022
53 percent of all online orders are placed with Amazon (own-account and marketplaces)*. A total of one in six parcels in Germany is sent back to the respective e-commerce retailer**. A large business segment. Especially for Marketplace retailers who lack the necessary capacities for their own returns management, it is a common model to hand over the returns to resellers. Before they can sell the goods themselves, they have to be stored temporarily - e.g. in a freight container. To protect the goods from damage due to high humidity, a ThoMar customer uses SeaDry container desiccants. The success of this measure is confirmed by a data logger that continuously records the climate in the container. If the desiccants are replaced in good time after saturation, the humidity remains within a non-critical range.
Do you also use containers for storage, temporarily or permanently? Get in touch with us. Our advisors will recommend the right SeaDry variant for you and have further advice for optimally securing your goods.
*Online Monitor 2021, HDE Handelsverband Deutschland
**Forschungsgruppe Retourenmanagement / Universität Bamberg, 29.12.2020
Silica gel protects raw materials in drums and IBCs
- Mar 15, 2022
In order to protect hygroscopic substances from too much harmful humidity during storage in or removal from IBCs (Intermediate Bulk Containers), drums or tanks, special desiccant filters are attached to the vent nozzle of the container. Loose silica gel is contained in the filters. Due to its ability to adsorb excess moisture from the ambient air, on the one hand the inner air column above the stored substance is dehumidified. On the other hand, the silica gel dries the outside air that flows in when the container is emptied.
For this and other purposes, ThoMar OHG supplies you with silica gel in bulk, also as silica gel orange (with saturation indicator). In addition to our standard range, various grain sizes are available upon request.
