Kuboteyner for honey: sizes

Flowering forests and fields; a swarm of hardworking bees over thickets of clover and clover; enchanting aroma of linden.

Fragrant apple orchard; the beekeeper family smokes a number of beehives and takes out a frame with honeycombs; on a strong wooden table - a bowl with amber sweet liquid, a slice of white bread and a mug of cold water.

Winter twilight outside the window; a woolen scarf around the neck; “Upsa” aspirin on the bedside table, a steaming cup of green tea and a vase with thick honey.

Heated sauna; warm wood, towels and sheets; plastic box with bee product scrub and sea salt.

These are the memories that aroused the words “cubotainer for honey”.

Bee Gift Characteristics

A healthy and tasty hive product is characterized by ten parameters. Regarding the storage method, consumer interest is focused on four aspects:

• viscosity;
• fluidity;
• density;
• hygroscopicity.

Excess moisture causes fermentation. With a relative humidity of 50%, its content in honey is 15.6%. With an increase in OM to 80%, the percentage of water increases to 33.1%.

Therefore, it is necessary to keep the honey tubotainer tightly closed so that excess moisture does not allow bacteria to develop and does not provoke fermentation.

Packaging specifications

A glass, wooden, metal and plastic container is used to store consignments of a bee product . It is preferable to use barrels of dry wood of deciduous trees: linden or beech, poplar or alder. They maintain the quality of honey. But you should remember - the barrels must be dried before filling and in no case should be soaked, as this can ruin the quality of the product.

Packaging in milk cans and other aluminum and enameled dishes is common. Capacities made of other metals are hazardous to health - honey comes into contact and forms toxic oxides.

Plastic cup container is a universal container designed for storage and transportation of cold food products of various consistencies. A simplified system of operation brought plastic to the first position in demand among beekeepers.

The container can withstand forty degrees of frost and heating to 40 ° C.

In shape, it resembles an inverted truncated quadrangular prism.

The strength of the hull and lid is sufficient to put the filled containers into a stack 2 meters high, or 7 tiers.

Cup containers for honey are produced in 12 liters and 23 liters. The colors are varied: white, blue, red and green.

Size description

Cup containers are described by two groups of sizes: according to external and internal contours.

The length, width and height of the outer wall is necessary to calculate the cargo volume - the exact amount in pieces that can fit in a vehicle.

The internal parameters of the bottom, neck and depth of the container are required to calculate the volume and weight of the honey transported.

A 12-liter container has external parameters of 34 * 34 * 16 centimeters, and inside it is described by numbers 30 * 30 * 14.9 cm. Its own weight is 650 grams. According to the manufacturer's specifications, up to 10 kg of product can be placed in such a container.

How much honey is in the cubotainer is determined by the parameters of the vessel and the quality of the product. Volume is calculated by geometric characteristics. Mass is calculated as the product of the internal volume of the tank and the density of honey. Since the bee product is one and a half times heavier than water, the denser the honey, the heavier the vessel with sweetness.

How many kg of honey in a 23-liter cubotainer? We calculate from the geometrical dimensions of the cubotainer with the same internal geometrical parameters of the bottom and top:

• height 31 cm;
• square bottom - 30 cm;
• square top - 30 cm.

At room temperature 20 ° C and 20% air humidity, the specific gravity of honey is 1.402 grams per cubic centimeter.

The lifting capacity of a 23-liter container is indicated by the Moscow company Plastmir at 20 kilograms, although in fact it can carry more weight.

A container with a volume of 12 liters, according to the technical conditions of the Moscow manufacturer Plastmir, has a load capacity of 10 kg of honey.

Materials and elements for the manufacture of goods

The containers are made of low pressure polyethylene and polypropylene. These are materials with a low density, so the products from them are quite lightweight.

So, a 23 liter honey tubotainer weighs 1.2 kilograms. Loading empty packaging will not require special equipment.

The advantages of plastic packaging

Advantages of shipping plastic packaging for food creations:

• Does not react with food substances.
• Honey is a poor conductor of thermal energy.
• Tensile strength at volatility of ambient temperatures within the tolerance on technical conditions from -40 ° C to + 40 ° C. The quality of the bee product itself at minus degrees does not decrease.
• If the product is not dragged along the ground and not thrown at each other, then it will last 5 years.
• Container sterilization and prolonged contact with aggressive aqueous media are acceptable.

Deccrystallization devices are designed for cubotainers, which allow to save both packaging and goods. With increased viscosity and "drying up" of honey, the container with sweetness is installed in the device. The contents heat up and become available for packaging.

Product flaws

Polyethylene begins to crack and crumble when the temperature drops to minus indicators. Therefore, containers of the specified material are used mainly for inedible goods.

Polypropylene withstands sub-zero temperatures, so in containers you can transport cottage cheese, fish and honey.

Despite the fact that the containers were made to store the “solar” product, it is not recommended to leave them under scorching rays.

The choice of beekeepers

The list of manufactured plastic vessels with a removable lid includes products with a capacity of 10, 15, 23 and 33 liters. The geometry of the packaging varies; containers can be round, square or rectangular.

Cubotainers for honey - cubic; equipped with a latch, which increases tightness - an important parameter for a container under honey.

At agricultural fairs, milk aluminum flasks are increasingly abandoned and trade is permitted only from translucent white vessels. To avoid trouble, honey dealers are switching to polyethylene and polypropylene containers.

You can store honey in plastic containers with a lid for a year, and two, and three. Edible properties are preserved. But healing qualities are declining after a year. Only in corked honeycombs in the hive honey is stored forever, does not deteriorate and does not wander, since there is no access to oxygen and impurities.

Justification of choice

The ease of use of containers in the form of a cubotainer is obvious:

• the vessel expanding upwards does not slip out of the hands;
• the outer perimeter is sufficient for girth.

A 23-liter honey cubotainer manufactured by Izhevsk producer Luch Enterprise weighs 1.2 kg without a lid; it is 120 grams heavier with a lid. The vessels are equipped with carrying handles.

You can sell the collected:

• among acquaintances, neighbors and colleagues;
• through retail outlets;
• an ad on the Internet and at the nearest booth;
• at agricultural fairs and exhibitions.

Whatever the way the sale of the collected sweet "harvest" is envisaged, the new owner will have to store it in the tubotainer until transfer.

Manufacturers

Beekeepers are given a choice of goods from the best Russian manufacturers. Containers are marked with logos on the lid and on the bottom.

When purchasing one product, the cost of goods will be 10-15 percent higher than wholesale prices.

The developers of containers for honey took into account not only the capacity for goods and tightness, but also the convenience of transporting empty containers.

Manufacturers trade in bulk of 100-1000 pieces. In order to save transportation costs, vessels are put into each other. The upper side of the cube with special stops allows you to easily remove nested containers.