NEED FOR SAFETY
RD Industries understands the importance of reducing costs as well as maintaining employee safety. With the SafTflo system, they close the loop on ensuring safe chemical dispensers.
Over the past two decades, chemical products have evolved into concentrated form in larger and larger quantities. This allows them to be shipped in smaller packaging, and become much easier to handle than large bulk containers. While this provides substantial logistical savings on shipping, handling and storage fees, this has created a need for more workplace safety measures to protect the employees handling the concentrated chemicals.
Using these chemicals in their concentrated form requires proper dilution and dispensing at the point of use. This leads to a host of new challenges by putting more responsibility on the end users, who must properly mix and use these products. Key problems include:
• Leakage and spillage causes safety hazards, property damage,
environmental damage, and financial exposure due to fines, litigation, and operational disruption
• Improper dilution due to technological limitations, environmental variables, or inadequate training or supervision leads to ineffective results that affect facility hygiene, image, cost, and asset preservation
• Stricter regulations are increasingly mandating that chemical concentrates are used in a safe and environmental manner
Because of these concerns, end-users are seeking closed loop chemical dispensing systems. RD Industries (RD) provides effective closed loop chemical containment and dispensing systems, engineering every connection and dispensing point to enforce total containment at every stage of the process. From installing a new refill, to
dispensing the chemical, to replacing used refill containers, the SafTflo closed loop technology ensures the safety of end-users and allows them to effectively manage their resources.
THE ANATOMY OF RD’S SAFTFLO CLOSED
LOOP SYSTEM The Lock The SafTflo system begins with the container insert, aka the “lock”, which features an automatic, self- venting and anti-reversing valve. The top of the insert is recessed into the container opening and is flush mounted so it will not interfere with the shipping closure. A dip tube is attached to the insert that reaches to the bottom of the chemical container.
The self-venting insert alleviates positive or negative pressure issues in the container to prevent spillage during shipment, storage, and handling. The end user removes the shipping closure to expose the insert and places the cap adapter on the container. This opens the spring-loaded valve so that the chemical is ready to be drawn.
The Key The SafTflo cap adapter is the “key” that unlocks the chemical from the bottle when mated to the insert. The cap adapter is connected to a dispensing system via standard intake tubing. The only function an end user needs to perform is to place the cap adapter on the container fitted with the SafTflo insert.
The cap adapter component of the SafTflo system opens the spring- loaded valve so that chemical can be drawn out by the dispensing system. If the cap adapter is removed for any reason, the valve closes automatically to lock the chemical in the container, preventing any accidental spills and loss of costly product.
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