IBC tote recycling in Germantown, Maryland

Reagent makers

A reagent maker both buys and sells liquids in volume. Its empties can be raw materials, and the tote may be reused for the same reagent once reconditioned. That is the strongest reuse case this site describes.

Electronics

Satellite communications and aviation electronics manufacturers use cleaners and etchants in smaller volumes. Their totes, if any, must be graded on the SDS alone.

North on I-270

Germantown is the last stop on the corridor drawn on the Montgomery County page. Frederick County is next, and its page covers the employers there.

Reagents are both bought and sold here

A reagent maker is unusual because its totes may carry its own product out as well as raw materials in. That means a tote can come back with a record of exactly what it held, at what concentration. Of the sites on this site’s map, it is the best case for reconditioning for the same product.

Germantown also lists satellite communications and aviation electronics. Their chemistry is cleaner and their volumes smaller.

Satellite communications and aviation electronics

These manufacturers appear as industries, not as tote counts. Satellite and aviation electronics use cleaners, flux removers and etchants in modest volumes. If your site buys any in a 275 gallon tote, the SDS is the key document, and a heel measurement completes the picture.

A corridor with two ends

Germantown is at the north end of the Montgomery County stretch of I-270, and Frederick County begins beyond it. A site here can be reached from either direction, a fact useful to anyone planning a run along the corridor, though no run is scheduled.

Before you write from Germantown

Give the reagent name, its concentration if the label shows one, and the tote count. Mention whether the same reagent will be bought again, since that is what decides whether reconditioning for the same product makes sense.

Reagents and electronics

A reagent maker and an aviation electronics shop empty very different totes. A request that says which one it is, and what the last product was, can usually be read in one pass. Include the reagent name, the strength shown on the label, and the number of totes that remain unopened, if any.

Asking from Germantown

Germantown ZIP codes are 20874, 20876 and 20841.