Food and beverage buyers do not want cheap containers. They want certainty.

Yes. Steel or plastic pallets to avoid ISPM 15 timber treatment requirements, double-stacked empties because ocean freight is priced per container, and a wash record plus prior-contents documentation in the pack.

Twenty-two units floor-loaded in a 40-foot container, forty-four double-stacked empty. Block and brace properly: ocean movement is far more violent in the vertical and roll axes than road movement.

Cargo declarations have to be written to be worth anything, a container quote involves nine variables that nobody holds accurately in conversation, and most of our customers are on a forklift rather than at a desk.

Every form submission is read by a person and answered within one business day, usually much sooner. Nothing is agreed that is not written down. For genuinely complex work we will schedule a video call.

Yes. Liftgate delivery lowers units to ground level and is standard on agricultural and construction-site work, not an exception.

Arrange it at the quoting stage. A liftgate booked then costs a fraction of one arranged at the door, and a refused delivery costs more than both.

Free from eight units inside our six weekly lanes, with payment for anything resaleable and a diversion certificate stating unit count, weighed mass and disposition split.

Further out, a collection needs to be close to a full trailer load or matched against a delivery on the same trip. We have never issued a disposal invoice.

Grade B and C from floor stock, usually the same week. Grade A washed, two to five business days. Rebottled, five to ten because bottles are fitted to order. Then add transit for your zone.

Wash bay throughput is about 90 units a day on Route 1 or 2 and 55 on Route 3. In practice turnaround is set by inspection and photography, not by washing.

Regularly — municipalities, fire departments, school districts, county emergency management and state agencies.

Itemised quotes with freight on a separate line, W-9 and insurance certificates in one email, sealed bids where required, and we will hold stock against a purchase order that has not cleared yet if you tell us the situation.

Measure the outside diameter of the male thread: roughly 60 mm is S60×6, 70 mm is S70×6, 75 mm is S75×6. S60×6 is the European norm — Schütz and Werit — and S70×6 covers Mauser and most North American bottles.

The reason this matters is that all three will start on each other and then bind after a turn or two. Two turns and a stop means the wrong standard. Forcing it crazes the bottle neck permanently, and a crazed neck is not repairable.

EPDM for water, glycols, caustics, fertilisers and most food products. Viton for acids, hydrocarbons, solvents and anything aromatic. PTFE for aggressive oxidisers and where nothing else is rated.

The two expensive errors are EPDM in hydrochloric acid, where it is destroyed in weeks, and EPDM in hydrocarbons, where it swells. If you tell us the cargo we specify the elastomer, and it is on the component list that ships with the unit.

It is the permissible superimposed load: how much mass may sit on top of that container. It assumes normal temperature, level ground and an evenly distributed load, and a zero means do not stack even empty.

The real-world caveat is temperature. Above 100 °F derate by half; above 120 °F do not stack at all. HDPE creeps under sustained load and heat accelerates it, so a stack that was fine in April can deform in July without anything else changing.

Indoors with a compatible cargo, longer than the business using it — we regularly handle bottles over twenty years old that pass every test. Outdoors, translucent, filled to the brim through Michigan winters: about five years.

What kills them is the combination of UV, freeze-thaw cycling and chemical stress acting together. Any one is survivable. All three together produce crazing, and crazing is the one condition with no path back.

No, and the distinction is worth money. Stress whitening is localised opacity where the polymer has been strained, almost always a forklift impact near the sump. It looks alarming and is often not a failure.

Crazing is a network of fine branching cracks from chemical and mechanical stress together. It is an absolute disqualifier, it never improves, and the test is a raking light at a shallow angle across the surface. If you can see branching, the bottle is finished — though the cage and base are still worth money.

Yes, and that is what rebottling is: a new blow-moulded HDPE bottle fitted into an inspected cage and base. Cages outlast bottles about three to one, which is why the trade exists.

The cage goes through the same inspection as everything else first — 44 to 54 weld nodes counted individually, diagonals measured, base welds loaded, galvanising checked at the welds. We fitted 4,118 new bottles in 2025. Bench turnaround on contract work is 48 hours.

Yes, as stainless bins rather than caged composites. A 350-gallon square 304 bin is 48 × 42 inches and 55 inches tall with a 420 lb tare; a 500-gallon cylindrical 316L is 52 inches in diameter, 74 tall, 580 lb.

They are the right answer for aggressive acids above SG 1.6, for hot cargo, and for anything where you want a container that will outlive several poly ones. They do not stack, and the trailer count drops to fourteen for the 500s.