Understanding the Benefits of Self Dumping Hoppers

Posted by Rouramh on March 21st, 2016

Investing in self dumping hoppers make sense if you want to improve your waste disposal, materials handling, and bulk handling requirements. The hoppers are designed to handle large amounts of bulk products or waste, making them ideal for any commercial or industrial business that deals with those every day. Unlike conventional hoppers, the self-dumping version is designed to unload itself. This helps save time and keeps employees protected from potentially harmful products and waste.

Self dumping hoppers come in different sizes and capacities, so you should be able to find the right product for your bulk, waste, or materials handling requirements. Regardless of their sizes and capacities, they are designed to easily fit on a forklift and maneuvered to the disposal site. This helps save time and effort, unlike when manual labor is involved. Hence, using self dumping hoppers frees manpower, time, and more energy to do other important tasks, resulting in less downtime and higher productivity.

Reputable and seasoned manufacturers of self dumping hoppers design their products to suit various materials and waste handling requirements. A 2,000 to 4,000 lbs. capacity hopper, for instance, is ideal for light duty loads like lightweight recycling material, metal turnings, plastics, paper, aluminum cans, and construction debris. Self dumping hoppers with 8,000 to 10,000 lbs. capacities are great for extra heavy materials handling applications, like hot ash, minerals, heavy construction materials, and glass.

High-quality hoppers have taper pins on their extruded and exclusive pierced extruded trunnion track for superior tracking and outstanding wear resistance. Their bodies are continuously welded and come with support channels for extra reinforcement. The formed top construction reinforces optimum strength and durability, and the flip secure latch ensures that the hopper stays in place during transport.

Higher capacity self dumping hoppers have additional features that can further increase the safety of employees when handling extra heavy and demanding materials. Some products have a slide bolt latch, a strong heavy-duty box tube base, base to body chains, a continuous stop bar, and double bottom support channels with three rows of back and side angles. Reputable self dumping hopper manufacturers can create custom hoppers from their existing products, too. This way, you can be sure that you are using products that are specially designed for your unique materials handling requirements.

About the Author:

This article is written by Mike Genter, who is associated with Roura Material Handling. Roura Material Handling produces a large variety of self dumping hoppers including durable hoppers, rugged hoppers, ultimate hoppers, behemoth hoppers as well as custom and specialty dumping hoppers for both commercial and industrial use.