Cubotainer for honey: dimensions

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 18:37

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

Fragrant apple orchard; a family of beekeepers smokes a row of hives and takes out a frame with honeycombs; on a sturdy wooden table is a bowl of amber sweet liquid, a slice of white bread and a mug of cold water.

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

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

Those are the memories that the words "cubottainer for honey" evoked.

Characteristics of the bee gift

Useful and tasty beehive product is characterized by dozens of parameters. With regard to the method of storage, consumer interest is focused on four aspects:

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

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

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

Packaging Specifications

Glass, wooden, metal and plastic containers are used to store bee products. It is preferable to use barrels made of dry hardwood: linden or beech, poplar or alder. They keep the quality of honey. But it should be remembered - the barrels must be dried before filling and in no case should they be soaked, as this can spoil the quality of the product.

Distributed packaging in milk cans and other aluminum and enameled dishes. Containers made of other metals are hazardous to he alth - honey comes into contact and forms poisonous oxides.

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

The container withstands forty degrees of frost and heating up to 40°C.

It resembles an inverted truncated quadrangular prism in shape.

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

Cube containers for honey are produced for 12 liters and 23 liters. Various colors: white, blue, red and green.

Description of sizes

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

The length, width and height of the outer wall is needed to calculate the cargo volume - the exact number in pieces that can fit in the transport.

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

A container with a volume of 12 liters has external parameters of 343416 centimeters, and inside it is described by numbers 303014.9 cm. The own weight of such a vessel 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 cube container is determined by the parameters of the vessel and the quality of the product. The volume is calculated according to the geometric characteristics. The mass is calculated as the product of the internal volume of the container 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 are in a 23 liter container? Let's calculate according to the geometric dimensions of the cubetainer with the same internal geometric parameters of the bottom and top:

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

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

The load capacity of a container with a volume of 23 liters is indicated by the Moscow company "Plastmir"20 kilograms, although it can actually hold more weight.

Tara with a volume of 12 liters according to the specifications of the Moscow manufacturer "Plastmir" has a load capacity of 10 kg of honey.

Materials and elements for the manufacture of goods

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

So, a 23-liter honey cube container weighs 1.2 kilograms. Loading empty packaging does not require special equipment.

The benefits of plastic packaging

Benefits of shipping plastic packaging for food creations:

• Does not react with food.
• Honey is a poor conductor of thermal energy.
• Tearing strength with ambient temperature volatility within specification tolerance from -40°С to +40°С. The quality of the bee product itself does not decrease at minus degrees.
• If the product is not dragged along the ground and not thrown at each other, then it will last 5 years.
• Sterilization of the container and prolonged contact with aggressive aquatic environments are acceptable.

Decrystallization devices have been designed for cubotainers, allowing to preserve both packaging and goods. With increased viscosity and “drying” of honey, a container with sweetness is installed in the device. The contents are heated and made available for packaging.

Product flaws

Polyethylene starts to crack and crumble when the temperature drops to below zero. Therefore, containers made of this material are mainly used for inedible goods.

Polypropylene can withstand sub-zero temperatures, so containers can carry cottage cheese, fish, and honey.

Despite the fact that the containers are made to store the "sunny" product, leaving them under the scorching rays is not recommended.

Choice of beekeepers

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

Cube containers for honey - cubic shape; equipped with a latch, which increases the tightness - an important parameter for a container for honey.

Agricultural fairs are increasingly refusing dairy aluminum flasks and allowing trade only from white translucent vessels. To avoid trouble, honey traders are switching to polyethylene and polypropylene containers.

You can store honey in plastic containers with a lid for a year, or two, or three. Edible properties are preserved. But the medicinal qualities decrease after a year. Only in sealed combs in the hive, honey is stored forever, does not deteriorate and does not ferment, since there is no access to oxygen and impurities.

Justification for selection

Ease of use of containers in the form of a cubetainer is obvious:

• the vessel expanding upwards will not slip out of the hands;
• outer perimeter is large enough to wrap your arms around.

Cuboteiner for honey with a volume of 23 liters of the Izhevsk manufacturer "Luch" Enterprise weighs 1.2 kg without a lid; it is 120 grams heavier due to the lid. The vessels are equipped with carrying handles.

You can sell what you collected:

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

No matter how the sale of the collected sweet "harvest" is envisaged, it will be necessary to store it in a cube container until it is transferred to the new owner.

Producers

Beekeepers have a choice of goods from the best Russian manufacturers. The container is marked with logos on the lid and on the bottom.

Company name	City	Model name	Wholesale price, rubles each
LLC "Luch Enterprise"	Izhevsk	"Bee"	230
LLC "New Apiary"	Kurgan	Cuboteiner	270
Topaz LLC	Moscow	Cuboteiner	171

When buying one product, the cost of the goods will be 10–15percent above wholesale prices.

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

Manufacturers sell in bulk quantities of 100-1000 pieces. In order to save transport costs, the vessels are nested in each other. The top side of the cube with special stops makes it easy to remove nested containers.