The benefits of steel handling baskets
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Material handling baskets can have a surprisingly large impact on the efficiency of your company’s parts finishing processes. A well-designed basket is effective at keeping parts safe from damage, and is often useful for a variety of processes.
Using steel fabrications for material handling baskets can provide a number of benefits that outweigh the benefits of using plastic.
What are these benefits? Here’s a short list:
1: Higher Load Capacity
On average, steel has a much higher tensile strength than plastic. Just how much higher depends on what specific steel alloy you use and the exact plastic polymer you’re comparing it to.
The higher tensile strength of steel allows mesh baskets made from this material to handle loads that would crush a frame made of plastic.
2: Heat Resistance
There are a number of plastic polymers that are marketed as being “heat resistant.” However, compared to steel, even a heat resistant plastic isn’t very resistant to heat at all.
3: Longer Useful Life of Steel Baskets
As mentioned earlier, steel has a much higher tensile strength and temperature tolerance than plastic, meaning that a basket made of steel will resist damage from heat and heavy loads better than plastic. Additionally, steel is less absorbent than plastic, so accumulated chemicals are easier to remove from steel than plastic.
Oxidation resistance can be an issue for steel and other metals with a high iron content. However, stainless steel alloys are resistant to oxidation corrosion, as they have a thin layer of oxides that prevent other oxides from attaching.
Steel simply makes for a tougher, longer-lasting, and more reliable materials handling basket than plastic alone.
With all the benefits that steel basket has to offer, it’s little wonder that it’s an ideal choice for a materials handling basket design.
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