Snyder Industries 350 Gallon 304 Stainless Steel Supertainer IBC Tote Tank

Why the 350 and not the 446 above it

Start with the family, because this tote only makes sense against the ones on either side of it. Every steel Supertainer on this sheet stands on the same 42 by 48 inch plan, which means the floor space, the aisle clearance, the bund it sits in and the way it comes off a truck do not change as you move up and down the range. The only thing that changes is height and weight. This one is 47.25 inches tall at 469 pounds empty. The 446 gallon listing on the same sheet is 59.25 inches and 542 pounds, and the 330 gallon 6840000B97202 is a different animal entirely at 46 by 46 by 70 inches and 335 pounds. So the question is not really floor area at all. It is headroom, reach and how much product you want sitting in one vessel. At 47.25 inches the manway is at a height most people can reach over from the floor or from a single step, which matters more than it sounds: a tote that needs a platform to open needs a platform every time it is filled, sampled or cleaned, and that platform is a permanent piece of site equipment. Going up to the 446 buys you about a hundred more gallons for a foot more height and a heavier lift; stepping down to the size below costs you volume you may need between deliveries. Put your real turnover against the delivery quantity in the tank sizing calculator before you settle on 350 gallons, and take the headspace discipline from the tank sizing guide, because a tote filled to the manway is a tote nobody can sample. Where the choice is really between a tote and something else altogether, the container against tank buying guide sets drums, cubes, totes and fixed tanks against each other on turnover and handling rather than on price. Whatever holds this one up has to be flat, level and continuous under the whole 42 by 48 inch base: 2,919 pounds of water lands on that rectangle and a corner left unsupported is where a steel base gets tired first.

Three 350s, a 330 and a 446 on one sheet

Four of these six listings are 350 gallons on the identical 42 by 48 by 47.25 inch shell at the identical 469 pounds, and the sheet publishes no difference between them at all. We print that plainly rather than inventing a reason, because guessing at what a part number suffix means is how the wrong item gets ordered. If a drawing, a spares list or an existing installation names one of those numbers, order that number and ask us to confirm the record against the part before it ships. The two rows that are genuinely different tell you something useful. 6840000B97202 holds 330 gallons, only twenty less than this tote, on a 46 inch square plan that is 70 inches tall, and it weighs 335 pounds against this one's 469. That is a taller, narrower, lighter vessel and it is not the same construction as the steel Supertainers here; it is listed as its own item and we do not describe it as stainless. 6984400B32210 is the honest step up inside the steel family: 446 gallons on the same 42 by 48 inch plan, 59.25 inches tall, 542 pounds. Ninety-six more gallons for a foot of height and seventy-three more pounds of empty weight, with no change to the floor plan, the aisle or the forklift. If your deliveries arrive in a quantity that half-fills a 350, that step is worth taking before you buy two totes.

Need two of them? Request a written quote for the pair with freight to your ZIP, or call 866-418-1777 and we will price the truck once.

The vented manway on top, then the ball valve at the bottom

• The manway and its vent: 22 inches across and listed as vented, at the top of a 47.25 inch tall vessel. The vent is the fitting that does the quiet work here, because 350 gallons drawn down through a 2 inch valve pulls air in behind it, and a vessel with no air path is a vessel under load. Keep the vent clear, look at it whenever the manway is open, and never blank it off to control an odour.
• What the manway is for: 22 inches is a wide opening on a tote this size. It takes a fill hose, a lance, a strainer basket and an arm with a light in it, which is what makes the difference between a tote that is rinsed between products and one that is merely emptied.
• The inlet: a 2 inch access port, as the sheet lists it. Any camlock, cap or adaptor that goes on it is a separate item; tell us what your delivery hose ends in and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• The outlet: a 2 inch 316 stainless ball valve. A quarter-turn valve in the same corrosion-resistant family as the vessel, and 2 inches is a working drain rather than a trickle.
• Support what hangs below it: the valve, any reducer and the first length of hose are carried on their own bracketry, not left swinging on the outlet. That is good practice on any tote and it is cheap.
• Limits: the sheet publishes no maximum service temperature, no warranty term, no pressure rating and no stacking load, so this page asserts none.

Where this tote feeds a metering pump rather than a hose, the layout under the valve is worth designing rather than assembling, and the pump skid design guide for tank-fed dosing works through the frame, the drip pan and the leak detection in the order they should be decided.

Where a 350 gallon steel tote gets filled and drawn

A 350 gallon steel tote on a 42 by 48 inch plan goes where a disposable container is not wanted and a fixed tank is too much: food, beverage and dairy production moving intermediates between steps, pharmaceutical and personal care blending, breweries and distilleries, ink, coating and adhesive manufacture, laboratory and pilot scale-up, and any plant that wants a vessel it can clean, inspect and put back into service rather than dispose of. The other common duty is transport between two of your own sites, where the same 469 pound vessel is loaded, moved and returned dozens of times. That is the whole economic argument for buying a steel tote rather than renting a disposable one, and it only works if the vessel is genuinely cleanable, which is why the 22 inch opening matters as much as the 350 gallons does. Name the product before you order, and check it against our chemical compatibility reference, because the gasket at the manway and the seat in the 2 inch valve follow the chemistry rather than the vessel.

Class 125 and 469 pounds of empty stainless

The sheet gives the freight class as 125 and gives no NMFC number and no plant at all, so this page names no shipping point and no lane. Price the move to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. The shipping footprint is the tank footprint at 42 by 48 inches and 47.25 inches tall, which is a low, dense unit rather than an awkward one: 469 pounds of empty steel comes off with a forklift taken under the base, never with a sling around the body and never by the 22 inch manway. Measure the door and the turning room to its final position before the truck is booked. Set it level on continuous support in the place it will actually live, then fill it with clean water and hold that 2,919 pound load long enough to walk right round the base, read the manway seal and watch the 2 inch valve joint for a weep. Drain it, dry it, then open the manway and look inside with a light before the working product goes anywhere near it. Where the floor under it would have to be recovered after a release, argue the containment question properly first with the Captor containment comparison, and where the contents are a regulated waste, the secondary containment rule for hazardous waste tank systems sets out the leak detection options and the inspection cadence. Stamp or tag the part number on the outside the day it lands; on a fleet of identical 469 pound totes, the one nobody can identify is the one that gets filled with the wrong thing. Photograph the outlet fitting from below before the pipe goes on; a slow weep is easier to compare against than to describe.