What Types of Liquids Can I Ship with Flexitanks and Flexibags?
If your business deals with bulk liquid transportation, you’re probably familiar with the challenges that accompany this field. Some of the challenges we’ve experienced include quality maintenance, capacity challenges, and liquid reactivity. Thankfully, our flexitanks and flexibags help overcome such challenges.
These flexible containers transform the traditional shipping container into an efficient and safe transport container. You’ll notice our flexibags provide a superior substitute to ISO tanks for shipping oils, juices, and non-hazardous chemicals. Here’s a look at the kinds of liquids you can ship with flexitanks.
Palm Oil
If your business deals with palm oil, we understand that you require transportation and storage. We recommend flexibags for providing bulk liquid solutions because they’re ideal when it comes to the transportation and capacity of palm oils. It’s worth noting that flexitank fabrication can take place more rapidly than other oil transportation and storage mediums.
Why Flexitanks for Palm Oil
Chemical Compatibility
The main reason we recommend flexibags for bulk liquid transportation is the chemical compatibility. The material that assembles our flexibags doesn’t react with palm oil when used for storage or transportation. Typically, PU Coatings or PVC works during the storage of palm oils, so the product remains viable to prevent issues throughout transportation.
Temperature Compatibility
The freezing point of palm oil and sedimentary products ranges between 20oC and 65 oC. The product’s low freezing point means that it requires heating to allow discharge upon arrival at the intended destination.
Fortunately, the integrated heating system of our flexibags makes it possible to warm the product without needing an extra heating pad.
Olive Oil
This edible oil originates from the olive tree and commonly functions as vegetable oil. If you sell or buy it in bulk, we recommend flexibags for safe and efficient bulk liquid transport. Typically, we load and empty with self-priming and positive displacement pumps, which comprise an anti-suction valve to avoid leakages. The valve further prevents any outstanding residue in the tank throughout discharge.
Why Flexitanks for Olive Oil
More Capacity
Due to its flexible and foldable nature, a flexibag can safely accommodate up to 24,000 liters of liquid, yet it just needs a 20ft freight container. These storage bags have approximately 30% more volume than typical ISO tanks and most carriers for bulk liquids. This enables our customers to transport more olive oil in a shorter time, reducing logistics expenses and increasing scale economies and customer satisfaction.
Product Quality Maintenance
While olive oil is a refined, high-quality product, it becomes rancid easily upon exposure to light and oxygen, changing its taste and odor. For this reason, the bulk liquid transport of olive oil is expensive because the loading, storage, and emptying of standard tankers must take place under stringent light, temperature, and moisture conditions to maintain product quality.
Conversely, our flexitanks feature numerous layers and come equipped with valves and pumps, making them water and airproof. This eradicates cross-contamination throughout the unloading and loading process.
Since the oil is in a waterproof and airproof container, it obtains protection from light and heat, maintaining the quality from transport and loading to unloading at the intended destination.
Cost-efficiency
Flexitanks accommodate 30% more oil than ordinary ISO tanks. This allows the transportation of more oil, thus decreasing logistics expenses in one go. We recommend these bags because they’re seamless to unload and load because of valves and pumps, implying fewer labor prerequisites and decreased payroll expenses.
Furthermore, they’re single-use, so you can recycle or dispose of them at the destination to eradicate return costs. Simply put, flexibags ease and decrease logistics expenses, permitting you to deliver your olive oil promptly.
Simplified Transportation
Unlike typical liquid tankers that might need specialized equipment, for instance, forklifts and comparable equipment to unload and load, flexitank filling needs valves and pumps.
Based on the capacity, they take 30 minutes to fill and empty. Also, they don’t need much preparation before use, and you don’t have to clean them unless you intend to recycle since they’re single-use. Consequently, flexibags permit easy usage and have negligible labor prerequisites, which decrease logistics costs further.
Eco-friendliness
While flexibags are single-use carriers for providing bulk liquid transport, you can recycle them, and they can last up to a decade given proper maintenance. This decreases packaging waste, ensuring brand sustainability, and consequently making your brand more appealing to eco-conscious customers.
How to Choose Flexibag for Transporting Olive Oil
Although flexitanks are mainly supposed to fit in a 20ft. freight container, they aren’t created equal. Consider these factors when selecting the ideal one for bulk liquid transportation.
Container
The holding container works to protect the flexitank against environmental damage and maintains product quality by decreasing moisture, air, and light exposure. Therefore, we recommend you prioritize container quality. Besides being durable and impact-resistant, a flexibag for bulk liquid solutions must have
- Corrugated sidewalls for safe oil transportation
- A safe floor
- Two locking bars
Design and Material of the flexibags
Flexibags commonly derive from sturdy plastics, but some comprise materials such as rubber and nylon. Each material has benefits and drawbacks. For instance, polypropylene-made flexitanks are usually sturdier, water and air-resistant.
However, they’re costly. While evaluating your material choices, consider the number of layers as well. It’s worth noting that flexibags with one polypropylene layer are affordable, but vulnerable to cuts and tears, while multilayer ones are more durable but expensive at the same time.
Flexitanks offer the best means for bulk liquid transportation if you’re looking to offer bulk liquid solutions. Therefore, you want to engage a reliable supplier that understands the field of bulk transportation. Thankfully, you can rely on our knowledgeable staff to guide you accordingly.
