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Blue steel drum clutcher lifting a sealed steel drum by its rim
Industry Application

Controlled drum movement, storage and decanting

Where the plant runs on drummed oil, solvent or additive, most of the risk sits in the metre between the drum store and the point of use.

Pain Points

What Goes Wrong In Chemical and Lubricant Handling

Full drums rolled or walked on their rim

Covered by the equipment listed below.

Uncontrolled pouring from a tipped drum

Covered by the equipment listed below.

Drums stored upright taking floor space

Covered by the equipment listed below.

Sealed drums lifted on slings

Covered by the equipment listed below.

Recommended Equipment

The S&L Lines Specified For This Environment

Four products covering the whole life of a drum on site: moving it, storing it, presenting it for pouring and lifting it when a truck cannot reach.

Yellow drum caddy with T-handle and four swivel casters

Drum Caddies and Carts

Drum Caddies and Carts

A drum caddy straddles the base of a drum and takes its weight on four wheels, so one person moves a full 55 gallon drum instead of walking it on its…

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RDC-1000 deluxe rotating drum cart with five inch poly on steel wheels

Rotating Drum Carts

Deluxe Rotating Drum Carts

A rotating drum cart carries a drum horizontally in a cradle and lets the operator turn it to a pouring angle and hold it there. The RDC-1000 series…

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Stackable drum rack holding three horizontal steel drums

Stackable Drum Racks

Stackable Drum Racks

Storing drums horizontally on a rack does two things at once: it recovers floor space and it puts the bung at the bottom where a tap can be fitted.…

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Blue steel drum clutcher lifting a sealed steel drum by its rim

Drum Clutchers

Drum Clutchers

A drum clutcher grips a steel drum under its rolling hoop and tightens as the load comes on, so a hoist or crane can lift a sealed drum without a…

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How To Specify

From Site Walk To Purchase Order

  1. Walk the site and list every position where traffic, a gap or a drum is handled today
  2. Match each position to a published S&L model code from the product pages
  3. Check the constraints that cannot be changed later: fork pocket centres, headroom, service range, yard surface
  4. Send the code list with quantities and the destination port
  5. Confirm anything marked TBC before the order is placed

Solutions For This Sector

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Questions

Chemical and Lubricant Handling Supply Questions

Which S&L products are specified most often in chemical and lubricant handling?

Drum Caddies and Carts, Deluxe Rotating Drum Carts, Stackable Drum Racks, Drum Clutchers.

Can these be quoted as one package?

Yes. Give the model codes and quantities and they are quoted together and consolidated into one shipment.

What is the main risk this equipment addresses here?

Full drums rolled or walked on their rim.

Does S&L publish load ratings for all of these?

For most lines, yes. Where a rating is not published — steel dock boards and wheel chocks — the product page says so and the figure is confirmed at quotation.

Specify For Chemical and Lubricant Handling

Send the list of positions you need to cover and we will come back with model codes, quantities and a quotation against them.