Because of the standard down time and greater costs experienced by operators who use conventional coil handling and coil storage systems, many companies are seeking more efficient arrangements that reduce the rate of inner- and outer-wrap damage.  ”Green” coil storage systems have been reported 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 manners of coil storage involve the use of wood, a practice that a lot of industrial professionals reason to be a waste of natural resources.  Additionally, because of wood’s natural absorption of oil from steel coils, this method can cause significant hazardous-material disposal costs.  Wood coil storage systems are also troublesome to preserve, and if components are not correctly designed, installed, or maintained, critical safety issues can result. Obviously, the use of wood in coil storage systems is simply a short-term solution that results in very high lifecycle costs for coil storage operators.

Recently, coil storage operators have found release from dangerous wood coil storage systems in “greener” polymeric coil storage systems.  These systems, which when developed with appropriately sized components provide for safer and more efficient coil storage solutions, are composed out of a variety of polymeric compounds based on the physical traits and lifecycle preferred by individual coil storage operators.  One Dutch business has designed a system that can tolerate up to 100 tons and allow three-high stacking without the need for chains!  The material used in this arrangement has been applied to the new RollStop coil storage system, which uses an easy-to-install design with four simple parts.

The biggest advantage to polymeric coil storage systems like the RollStop system is that they are made of recycled materials. Furthermore, because these coil storage systems are designed to have 30-year lives, the substance used to compose them – material that would otherwise be thrown away or recycled – is taken out of the waste disposal and recycling system for a long length of time, thereby saving the time, energy, and costs associated with the lengthy recycling process.

Because polymeric coil storage systems boast benefits such as improved safety, simple installation and maintenance, and rugged, polymeric components that do not split, break, or absorb oil, these systems indubitably outperform their traditional wood counterparts.