Do these blue plastic drums actually survive a forklift tine mishap or just shatter into a million pieces?


Had a bit of an incident last Tuesday in our Ajman blending room where one of the warehouse guys came in a little too hot with the forklift and nicked the side of one of our older plastic drums and instead of just denting like steel would the whole side just split open like an egg and dumped about fifty liters of premix surfactant all over the bund before anyone could even yell stop, and while I'm grateful the bund did its job I'm now looking at replacing about a dozen aging drums before something similar happens during a busy shift and we lose half a day to cleanup instead of production. I started looking around for high strength plastic drums UAE industrial use because clearly the ones we inherited were not designed with accidental impact in mind and I'm curious if these locally made ones from Crateco have a bit more wall thickness or maybe a different resin blend that doesn't get so brittle after a couple of summers of heat cycling. The spec sheet mentions weight and capacity but doesn't really talk about impact resistance at room temp let alone what happens when they've been sitting in a forty degree warehouse and then get a sharp knock from a piece of machinery, so I'm hoping someone out there has accidentally tested this scenario in a real world environment and can tell me if these things at least give you a warning crack before total catastrophic failure or if it's just a straight up explosion of plastic shrapnel and regret.