Unimac

Unimac Company Profile

Unimac is a leading supplier of spill kits for a wide range of applications, with over 30 years experience in the field of industrial absorbents and spill management. Storage cabinets for chemicals and flammable materials, plus drum handling and drum storage equipment, are among the other high quality products supplied by Unimac. The company takes pride in the quality of its customer service, fast delivery and prices it believes to be unmatched.

The easy to use website includes information about each category of workplace equipment supplied by Unimac, and there is a useful guide to the right type of absorbent needed to deal with different spills.

There is free delivery to mainland UK addresses on many ranges. In all cases, the company aims to process orders immediately and dispatch goods at once.

Unimac offers a huge choice of best quality workplace products at affordable prices. They include:

Spill Absorbents

Unimac supplies a wide range of spill absorbents that are essential to keep work areas safe. All have been proven to provide a quick and effective clean-up. They are available in varying sizes to suit numerous situations. This category covers

• Maintenance Absorbents: Highly absorbent material ideal for most spills happening during maintenance and repair jobs. Available as pads, mats, pillows, socks and rolls.
• Oil Only Absorbents: Designed to remove oil from water, these products come in pad, roll, pillow, sock and boom formats.
• Chemical Absorbents: Coloured yellow as a recognition that hazardous substances are involved; this range includes pads, pillows, socks and rolls to deal with spills of acids, alkalis and all chemicals.
• Marine Absorbents: Capable of absorbing all hydrocarbon-based spills, a range of mats, booms and socks that float on water even when saturated.
• Absorbent Granules: Loose granules for liquid spills - including clay granules, dust-free granules for chemicals, environmentally-friendly granules made from recycled softwood and Absodan granules to remove oils and chemicals from highways.
• Plant Nappy: Placed under smaller machinery such as water pumps and generators, these prevent leaking fuel or oil contaminating soil while allowing rainwater through. Available in three sizes.

Spill Kits

Having a spill kit on hand is a reliable way to enable spills to be tackled immediately. Unimac’s kits come in formats to deal with all types and sizes of spills. The spill kits are contained within bags, buckets, wall lockers or wheelie bins and contain products necessary to deal with:

• Maintenance Spills
• Oil Only Spills
• Chemical Spills (Hazmat kits)
• Body Fluid Spills.

Unimac also supplies the ADR kits needed on vehicles carrying dangerous goods.

Drain Seals

A huge selection of best-value products to prevent pollutants entering sewers. Includes drain seals, plugs and covers in a choice of materials and sizes.

Safety Containers

A range of tested safety containers for storing, dispensing and disposing of flammable liquids, oil waste and corrosive waste. Steel cans for flammable liquids are in different sizes including models approved for laboratory use, and there is a lower cost polyethylene version.

Drum Handling

Unimac has extensive knowledge of drum handling and drum storage requirements and has a wide choice of equipment to enable safe movement of steel drums or plastic carboys. All products comply with HSE Legislation and are manufactured to high standards for durability and ease of use. They include:

• Drum Stacking Pallets that can be stacked up to three high and transported by pallet truck, forklift truck or crane. Sizes to take from one to four drums and with mesh walls or splash protection sides.
• Drum lifters ranging from lifting handles for 60-litre or 205-litre drums, chains and hooks through to hydraulically-operated wheeled lifters with automatic clamps, capable of lifting 300kg up to 700mm.
• Forklift attachments for gripping or turning varied size of drum.
• Trollies and dollies for safely moving heavy drums around the workplace and for dispensing the drum's contents. In a range of styles and sizes to handle single or double drums.
• Drum Mounts: A choice of single or twin holders in polyethylene and twin or triple galvanized stands. Plus a dispensing station capable of holding four or five large drums.

Drum Containment

Unimac supplies a wide range of secondary containment units which provide extra protection against accidental spills and leaks from drums and help to meet safety regulations. These include:

• Sump pallets in steel or polyethylene, for large or small drums.
• Small steel sump trays suitable holding bottles or canisters of flammable liquid on work benches.
• Stainless steel sumps for use with drums of aggressive chemicals, or in the food industry.
• Workfloors in steel or polyethylene, in a variety of sizes to provide a safe working area and remove any threat to ground water.
• Drum Storage Units for indoor or outdoor use. Ranges include easy-to-assemble polyethylene units with a lockable roller sliding door and large outdoor units storing up to 32 drums or a mixture of drums and intermediate bulk containers.
• Hazardous Materials Depots: Unimac has a range of certified products to ensure compliance with HSE regulations.

IBC Sump Pallets and Cabinets

Complementing Unimac’s drum pallets and storage units are sump pallets and cabinets for intermediate bulk containers. The IBC sump pallets are available in steel for safe storage of flammable and hazardous materials, or polyethylene for use with aggressive chemicals. The steel pallets can be supplied galvanized or in a choice of five RAL colours. For storing several IBCs, Unimac has fully bunded cabinets incorporating leakproof sumps and removable grid shelving.

Chemical Storage Cabinets and Flammable Storage Cabinets

Laboratories and many warehouses have a need to store chemicals safely, which means isolating them in a suitable cabinet. Unimac has cupboards and cabinets suitable for storing and transporting all sorts of hazardous substances including acids and flammable liquids. All comply with the relevant British Standards. The comprehensive range includes:

• Underbench steel safety cabinets suitable for laboratories, in six styles with features including slide out spill trays, drawers that close automatically in the event of fire, exhaust systems and fire resistance to specified levels.
• Fire resistant safety cabinets in warning yellow, in two sizes with adjustable shelves.
• Hazardous cabinets in three sizes, coloured bright red and with warning stickers, all with robust deadlocks.
• Flamstore walk-in hazardous storage units, in four sizes up to a massive 3,200 litre capacity.
• Expandachem portable units. These flat-pack units are easy to assemble and can be linked side to side or end to end to make versatile chemical storage facilities.
• Flambanks in six sizes ideal for use on building sites or in commercial vehicles.
• Transbanks in five sizes for transporting fuels or chemicals.
• Polyethylene chemical storage cabinets in three sizes.

Other Products

Other Unimac products include gas cylinder equipment, general cupboards for industry or commerce, drum crushers, modular shelving, drip and spill trays, tool boxes, workshop boxes and fluorescent tube storage boxes.