Texas Technologies Blog FAQ ABOUT MOISTURE AND CONDENSATION IN SHIPPING CONTAINERS

Q: How are moisture problems solved with the aid of absorpoles? Calcium chloride aggressively, capturing and absorbing moisture from the air, are found in absorpoles. This dries the air, eliminating moisture problems.Q: Are all moisture problems solved by absorpole? Not all moisture problems are solved due to some cargoes being too wet causing any practical amount of absorpoles to get overpowered. However, absorpoles can protect difficult cargos that contain a lot of moisture like coffee beans, paper or wood products.Q: Why do I continue to experience moisture problems when I load my container under dry conditions? Pallets, crates, container floors, and other cargo or packaging contain moisture that is evaportated during transport in the air. The common cause of unexpected moisture problem is wet packaging material. Q: I have had no problems with absorpole for years with shipping the same cargo but now I have a lot of damage. Has there been a change in the poles? Review the container and packaging material. Have you just began to store pallets outdoors?Is your forklift able to drive in the container with snow on it's wheels? Have you recently changed your supplier of crates? This can't be told by looking at the dryness of the wood or carton. Changes in pallet moisture content makes a huge difference. Q: I have problems even though I ship goods in tubes/cans/jars that contain no moisture. Cardboard packaging is often used to ship consumer goods. Boxes can hold tons of water even if the boxes seem dry. Q: There is tons of moisture in each container of my cargo consisting of peanuts/coffee/cocoa. What difference does Absorpoles make by absorbing a couple liters during a trip?A little change in circumstances has a major effect on the outcome. Even if the level of humidity in the air is lowered by a substantial amount, Absorpoles make situations that allow almost all moisture to stay in the cargo, preventing damage. "Leverage" is the question.Q:Is there a huge difference between cocoa beans that have a moisture content of 8% than that of 7%? Yes, the difference between the two is that of zero damage to disaster. The moisture behavior of most agriculture products have strong exponential characteristics.Q: There was damage suffered to my cargo of peanuts in the center even though the outside was in normal condition and there was no sign of condensation. Prolonged periods of elevated humidity without condensation causes a lot of damage to cargo. Commonly, cargo that is loaded at cool temperature and moved to warm conditions suffer damage in the center due to the difference in temperature. Warmer air from outside becomes humid as it moves to the cooler center. Even with the poles mounted on container walls, absorpoles protects against the effect.Q: There was damage done to my cargo even with the use of large amounts of silica gel and there wasn't any condensation. Would switching to absorpole help? Moisture is absorbed by calcium when the humidity isn't very high. The cargo is protected against damage that is caused by prolonged periods of elevated humidity. Some types of steel begins corroding at 70% relative humidity, moulds can grow at 80% relative humidity and at almost 90% humidity a lot of things go wrong. Absorpoles are most proficient in extremely humid conditions and in protecting the cargo against damage due condensation.