Because of the frequent down time and excessive costs experienced by operators who utilize traditional coil handling and coil storage systems, many companies are seeking more efficient designs that decrease the rate of inner- and outer-wrap damage. ”Green” coil storage systems have been perceived to be not only more efficient but also more sustainable – they are not only designed of recycled materials, but they are also recyclable themselves.
Traditional kinds of coil storage involve the use of wood, a practice that a lot of industrial professionals reason to be a waste of natural resources. Moreover, because of wood’s characteristic absorption of oil from steel coils, this system can cause costly hazardous-material disposal costs. Wood coil storage systems are also difficult to preserve, and if components are not correctly designed, installed, or maintained, significant safety issues can occur. Certainly, the use of wood in coil storage systems is just a short-term solution that causes very high lifecycle costs for coil storage operators.
Recently, coil storage operators have found relief from precarious wood coil storage systems in “greener” polymeric coil storage systems. These arrangements, which when designed with appropriately sized components provide for safer and more efficient coil storage solutions, are composed of different polymeric compounds based on the physical traits and lifecycle desired by individual coil storage operators. One Dutch company has invented a system that can withstand up to 100 tons and accommodate three-high stacking without the need for chains! The compound used in this scheme has been applied to the new RollStop coil storage system, which uses 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 made of recycled components. Moreover, because these coil storage systems are designed to have 30-year lives, the substance used to make them – material that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled – is taken out of the waste disposal and recycling system for a long amount of time, thereby saving the time, energy, and costs associated with the lengthy recycling process.
Because polymeric coil storage systems possess benefits such as improved safety, simple installation and maintenance, and rugged, polymeric components that do not split, break, or absorb oil, these systems significantly outperform their traditional wood counterparts.
