In February 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published HM-231 which detailed the requirements for closure instructions as well as identifying a retention period for closure instructions. Several members of the Council on Safe Transport of Hazardous Articles, COSTHA, noted concerns over the adopted language and requested an [...] Read Full Story
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has released online its report ranking both the top hazardous materials and transportation processes that were related to serious incidents and fatalities from 2005 to 2009. The Top Consequence Hazardous Materials Commodities Report is part of a series of steps that will [...] Read Full Story
Having just returned from an extensive trip visiting several of our customer in the beautiful California wine country, we return to Chicago amazed at the abundance and variety of uses of our stainless steel wine barrels. We were pleased to see our 5 gallon stainless steel wine barrel in use in academic and laboratory settings [...] Read Full Story