Six product families.
One operating principle: reused before new.

Which product fits which job?

Most buyers know they want an IBC. The honest question is which one. As a rule of thumb:

• 275 gallon, reconditioned — the default for industrial chemistry, ag inputs, cleaning concentrates, and short-trip storage.
• 330 gallon, reconditioned — same footprint, more volume; pick it when truck cube matters more than headroom.
• New (virgin) — pharmaceutical, infant nutrition, certain water-treatment chemistries, or where customer spec literally bans reused.
• Caged metal totes — solvents, low-flash, or temperature-sensitive products that HDPE can't legally hold.

When in doubt, send us the SDS — we'll recommend a format, a grade, and a price. See the size guide for full dimensions and the grading system for the difference between Bottle, Wash, Rebottle, and Recon.

All six categories at a glance.

Choosing the right format in five questions.

Most buyers come to us already knowing they want an IBC but uncertain which sub-format and which grade is the right call. Run through these five questions in order and you will land on the right product in under a minute.

1. Is the chemistry compatible with HDPE?

Cross-reference the SDS against published HDPE compatibility tables. For roughly 95% of industrial chemistry the answer is yes. If no, you want a caged metal tote — see caged metal totes.

2. Is there any explicit spec language banning reused?

If your customer's purchase order specifies new IBCs and your account team is not ready to update the spec, you want a new IBC. If the spec is silent or specifies UN31HA1/Y without restricting reused, reconditioned is the better economic and environmental answer.

3. Is the application food, pharma, or infant nutrition?

For pharma and infant nutrition, default to new. For most food and beverage intermediates, food-grade reconditioned tanks are well-accepted and a fraction of the cost — but you should request documentation of prior contents and wash protocol.

4. Is pallet position or vertical clearance your binding constraint?

If vertical clearance is tight (under 8 feet to ceiling or rack opening), stay with the 275 gallon format. If pallet position is the binding constraint and clearance is adequate, the 330 gallon gives you 20% more product per pallet.

5. Is this an ongoing program or a one-time purchase?

If your monthly throughput is above 200 totes a month and there is reverse-logistics potential (your downstream customers return empties to known points), a closed-loop program almost always beats transactional purchasing on both cost and carbon. Below that threshold, transactional orders against quoted spec are the right approach.

What ships with every order.

Regardless of grade or format, every IBC that leaves our Dublin yard ships with the following as standard:

• Grade card. Physical card affixed to the cage with grade designation, date of last wash or requalification, prior-contents class where applicable, and lot number for traceability.
• Valve cap. Cam-lock cap (or specified fitting) installed on the bottom valve, leak-tested at our dock.
• Top lid. Vented or solid as specified, with new gasket.
• BOL with full intake description. Quantity, grade, lot reference, and any special handling notes.
• Lot documentation (UN-requalified grades). Emailed before truck arrival; available for download in PDF.
• Diversion certificate on request — quantifying the HDPE diverted from landfill represented by your reconditioned shipment, suitable for inclusion in your sustainability reporting.

Pricing — the honest version.

We do not publish per-unit prices on this page because IBC pricing has three moving parts: spot polymer resin index, lot grade quality at intake, and freight cost to your specific ZIP. A quoted price that holds today often does not hold next quarter, and a tile of prices on a website misleads more often than it informs. Instead, here is the framework that drives every quote we give.

What drives reconditioned pricing

• Polymer market. When virgin HDPE is expensive, reconditioned units become more competitive on a relative basis, but the absolute reconditioned price moves with the underlying polymer index too.
• Grade. Bottle Tight is the cheapest; Reconditioned (UN-requalified) and Food Grade are the most expensive. Wash and Rebottle land in between.
• Quantity. Single pallet (1–4 totes) ships LTL freight and carries the highest per-unit freight. Truckload economics kick in around 5–10 totes.
• Destination. ZIPs along our daily consolidation lanes get the lowest freight; ZIPs in the Mountain West or northern New England carry premium freight.
• Lead time. Standard 3–7 day stock pulls at standard pricing; urgent (next-day) at a premium; pre-booked recurring at a discount.

What does not drive pricing

• Negotiation theatrics. Our first quote is our market price, not an opening position.
• Customer size. A 5-tote pilot order and a 500-tote recurring order get the same per-unit price model; the difference shows up in freight efficiency.
• Brand preference. We carry inventory across major manufacturer brands and we will route what is closest to spec, not what is most prominent in our yard.